Application Delivery Networking
IBM announced today (January 31, 2012) its intent to purchase privately held Worklight. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York, New York, Worklight markets software and systems for developing and deploying mobile applications. They support all the major mobile platforms - iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry -natively. Worklight ...
Published on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 at 1:37 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
Cisco recently unveiled its next-generation Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solutions, delivering a significant upgrade over its previous versions. The improvements address the demand for a WAN solution capable of scaling to deliver web-based software applications and rich media content across networks with improved performance. In order to realize market ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
Riverbed announced the acquisition of two companies this week, Zeus and Aptimize, expanding its coverage to include Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and Web Content Optimization (WCO), respectively. The move to add ADC capabilities should not come as a major surprise--indeed, several ADC vendors have WAN optimization ...
If you are not familiar with WAN acceleration solutions, they usually work by having an appliance on each side of the connection and applying smart algorithms to bring a lot more performance to networked applications (tens to a hundred times faster). It is a must-have for many enterprises.
The first time ...
According to ESG’s 2011 IT spending intentions survey, nearly half of all organizations will increase networking spending in 2011—good news for networking companies like Blue Coat, Cisco, Extreme Networks, F5, HP, Juniper Networks, and Riverbed. Survey respondents’ highest spending priority is network security, followed by network management, WLAN, and IP ...
Take a look at ESG Research and you’ll see a number of simultaneous trends. Enterprises are consolidating data centers, packing them full of virtual servers, and hosting more and more web applications within them. This means massive traffic coming into and leaving data centers.
Yes, this traffic needs ...
Is cloud computing real? Yes. When you sort through the hype and evaluate collective industry R&D efforts, cloud computing options may arrive sooner than most believe. In fact, smart CIOs are already assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each workload should run—locally or in the ...
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Published on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 9:28 am | No Comments »
Authors: Jon Oltsik | Paul Myerson |
ESG believes that IT priorities won’t change much in 2010—CIOs will still be tasked to improve business processes while cutting costs. Can this be done? Yes, but it demands that large organizations look to consolidate resources, simplify the IT architecture, and seek out innovative vendors and solutions. ...
Authors: Jon Oltsik | Paul Myerson |
