HTTP, FTP, MAPI, NFS

MAPI, CIFS, NFS v4

CIFS, RDP, MAPI, HTTP, SSL, Oracle, MAC-CIFS, ICA, UDP

HTTP, MAPI, NFS v3, CIFS, Lotus Notes, MS-SQL

Logical In-path / Physical In-path

Server-side out-of-path / Physical In-path

Server-side out-of-path / Logical In-path

All methods above can be configured on a single Steelhead appliance simultaneously

Disconnect all users

Expand disk capacity

No action is required

Clean the datastore

Insert a USB key for extra storage

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Drop the new data

Create a tunnel to optimize the data

Scalable Data Referencing creates and sends new reference pointers to the peer Steelhead appliance

Compress the data using Lempel-Ziv and sends it to the peer Steelhead appliance

Sends only the references for the data to the counterpart Steelhead appliance

Pass Through

Dynamic Detection

Auto Discover

Fixed-Target

Real-Time

To speed up certain applications

To reduce the number of connections used

To reduce WAN utilization

To make UDP faster

Reduces transport protocol inefficiencies

Prioritizes application traffic

Virtually expands TCP windows

Reduces WAN round trips at the application layer

Applications run up to 100 times faster

Reduces application chattiness by 65-98%

Accelerates the most important applications, such as CIFS, MAPI, NFS, HTTP/S, Lotus Notes, and MS-SQL

All of the above

None of the above