By Ranga Sai
TMCnet contributing writer
Microsoft and Packeteer ( News - Alert) have announced a joint product strategy to deliver the industry’s first comprehensive branch office IT solution, the Packeteer iShaper, which makes computing faster, more secure, and cost effective. iShaper, the ‘unified Branch Office Box,’ makes remote branch management seamless, secure, and cost effective. Building on an existing partnership, the two companies are collaborating on the engineering and marketing of this new ‘Branch Office Box.’ After releasing the initial version of iShaper later this quarter, both the companies will work together to rollout subsequent versions in the fourth quarter of this year.
‘Branch Office Box’ enables users to accelerate the delivery and use of applications over the WAN  and take advantage of the full range and ease-of-use of Windows services for file, print, Active Directory, networking, and more. iShaper is a combination of Packeteer’s Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization and its application visibility and prioritization technologies with Microsoft ( News - Alert) technologies, including Windows Server, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, and System Management Server (SMS).
“Packeteer is about intelligent application acceleration and Microsoft Windows is the application platform in the enterprise,” said Dave Cote, CEO of Packeteer.
“The remote branch office is becoming one of the top network IT initiatives of the decade,” said Lucinda Borovick, program director, datacenter networks, IDC ( News - Alert).
Packeteer’s current iShared products combine the acceleration of Packeteer wide area file services (WAFS) and WAN optimization with Microsoft Windows Server and ISA Server technologies for branch office print, authentication, and Web caching.
“In addition to its leadership in WAFS and WAN optimization solutions, Packeteer gives customers unique insights into the state of applications and their performance while running in the branch,” said Rakesh Narasimhan, general manager of the Enterprise Access & Security Products at Microsoft.
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Ranga Sai is a contributing writer for TMCnet.
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