Network Acceleration and Optimization
Published on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 12:14 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Optimizing Server, Application, and Storage Consolidation with Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
For quite some time virtual desktops have been growing in popularity, first as a means to effectively deliver desktops for call centers, support desks, etc., and now it has become an increasingly popular strategy for dealing with an ever growing “bring your own device to work” problem. That is, how ...
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 |
The connected world means a fully networked world, which is great – unless there is a problem. And typically when there is a problem, the network gets blamed. How many times have you heard the network is down, the network is slow, lost my internet connection and so on? ...
Riverbed recently announced a significant enhancement to its Riverbed Optimization System, or RiOS, to better address several of the emerging needs for WAN optimization. Ultimately, upgrades like this represent how WAN optimization vendors are evolving their solutions to support a wider range of technologies and environments. Specifically ...
Working in a remote or branch office can have its challenges: you don't have direct access to the executive team, there's probably no corporate cafeteria, and you definitely miss out when those emails that say "leftover brownies in the kitchen" go out to the whole company ! One of the ...
Published on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at 4:10 pm | 2 Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Kristine Kao |
ESG research indicates that companies face significant challenges when it comes to delivering applications over the WAN from a central location to employees at remote office/branch office (ROBO) locations. In addition to frustrated workers, performance and availability issues can lead to dissatisfaction among customers and, ultimately, missed opportunities and lost ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Kristine Kao |
It’s no surprise that server virtualization has had a significant impact on supporting infrastructure as IT organizations struggle to effectively manage, monitor, and scale resources to meet the needs of new, dynamic environments. Getting visibility into virtualized infrastructure remains a critical IT requirement. This ESG Lab Validation examines Virtual Instrument’s ...
For years, large organizations have centralized applications and IT services in order to cut costs and drive greater efficiencies. This slowly decreased the IT portfolio in remote offices/branch offices. One-by-one, e-mail, file, application, and backup servers were pulled out of branches as these services were moved ...
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 ...
