What are some major differences between aCelera Virtual Appliances and closed hardware appliances?
First, aCelera virtual appliances are software which runs on industry standard servers, workstations or laptop running industry standard hypervisors. Closed hardware appliances do not give customers the choice of hardware platform to run on, or the ability to upgrade the appliance by adding CPU, memory, or storage. Most appliances require a fork-lift upgrade if you want more performance or scalability. Second, aCelera is a true virtual appliance and as such seamless integrates into virtualized infrastructures and can take advantage of any of the system resources and management within the virtual environment, whereas, closed hardware appliances run light instances of hypervisors and cannot leverage the ease of deployment, scalability, and manageability that a virtual appliance can. There are a number of other advantages that aCelera has by leveraging virtualization which are described in detail in the aCelera architectural white paper. aCelera Virtual Appliances for WAN Optimization and
