strategic application acceleration

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  • Akamai and Citrix link up on app acceleration

    Akamai and Citrix are linking up to offer global application optimisation, combining Akamai's Internet-based web application acceleration (WAA) service with Citrix NetScaler application optimisation gear in customer sites.
    22 May 2008
    Tags: Datacentre • Linking • Optimisation • Gear • Served • Wan

  • Cisco offers products to speed up application delivery

    The product is designed for small and midsize businesses and will support up to 2Gbit/s of application traffic, as well as 50 virtual devices from a single application.Also shipping is a new Cisco Wide Area Applications Services (WAAS) mobile…
    23 January 2008
    Tags: Delivery • Matt Hamblen • Zeus Kerravala • Ace • Riverbed

  • Server load balancing hits a record

    Following those three were Nortel, Radware and Foundry.Vendors and analysts alike typically lump server load balancing in with other technologies, such as WAN optimisation, application acceleration and traffic management, as part of a larger…
    24 August 2007
    Tags: Analysts • Optimisation • Acquisitions • Revenues • Spot • Balancing

  • WAN optimisation breaking app monitoring

    The problem arises because WAN acceleration boxes typically act as proxies, intercepting network requests and responding to them locally. The result is a falsely optimistic view of network response, whether it's measured actively or passively, said…
    24 July 2007
    Tags: Tcp • Optimisation • Reporting • Requests • Wan • Bryan Betts

  • Blue Coat gives PCs go-faster WAN stripes

    Blue Coat has released SG Client - WAN acceleration software for Windows XP which does TCP optimisation, data compression and CIFS caching by talking to a Blue Coat WAN acceleration appliance at the head office.
    11 April 2007
    Tags: Acceleration • Tcp • Optimisation • Remote Access • Appliances • Ssl

  • NetApp sells NetCache to Blue Coat

    For example, ProxySG has policy-driven web and IM security features, plus WAN application acceleration capabilities.In the long term, the deal frees NetApp to focus on storage and storage management, while Blue Coat expects to get 1000 new…
    26 June 2006
    Tags: Cash • Acceleration • Wan • Shares • Proxy • Netapp

Latest Features

  • New directions in WAN and app acceleration

    Four network optimisation start-ups with innovative approaches to application acceleration and WAN optimisation. There's lots of additional functionality being developed, in many cases by start-ups, and there are problems out there we're only…
    19 June 2008
    Tags: Optimisation • Wan • Ups • Strategic • Founded • Transfers

  • The shifting sands of WAN optimisation

    He adds that with little sign that they will properly re-write their apps for WAN use - "although there's always some optimisation going on" - there's still plenty of room for companies such as Riverbed to differentiate themselves according to how…
    24 August 2007
    Tags: Peak • Acceleration • Tcp • Optimisation • Silver • Improving

  • Q&A: IBM's Rich Lechner on virtualisation

    In storage, IBM is part of storage group Aperi, an open source storage management group that conforms to SNIA standards and is designed to accelerate cross-storage management -- in fact, that's a proof point of open source's acceleration of…
    21 September 2006
    Tags: Manek Dubash • Disaster Recovery • Role • Heterogeneous • Flexibility • Accelerate

  • Data reduction speeds WANs

    This paves the way for strategic server centralisation projects and improves business continuity by ensuring successful data backup and recovery.Aaron is director of product marketing, and Hughes is CTO and founder, at WAN acceleration developer…
    15 August 2006
    Tags: Acceleration • Optimisation • Wan • Limitations • Gains • Patterns

  • Seven ways to boost application performance

    That has network executives scrambling to invest in new technologies - such as application acceleration and WAN optimisation tools - and others working with system administrators and application developers to tweak internal servers and fine-tune…
    31 July 2006
    Tags: Boston • Optimisation • Locations • Verizon • Forrester Research • Terminal

  • Why accelerating TCP is not enough

    If they only handle TCP, that could jeopardise your ability to do server consolidation, he argues.There's two ways to look at application acceleration - tactical, to speed up an application, or strategic, to do server consolidation," he says.
    30 March 2006
    Tags: Peak • Flow • Consolidation • Tcp • Optimisation • Patterns
 

White Papers

  • Taking Application Delivery to New Heights

    These two factors are creating a perfect storm in the IT industry, which is elevating WAN acceleration from a tactical fix to a strategic enabler of key business initiatives.As WAN acceleration becomes more critical to business operations, the…
    21 March 2007
    Tags: Acceleration • Wan • Creating • Scalability • Links • Ces

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