Network Acceleration and Optimization
"This is one area where they may have had a gap in their portfolio before," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte said.
via Riverbed Steelhead 7050 uses solid-state drives to boost WAN performance.
In general terms, spending on networking equipment will be better than last year but not nearly as fruitful as earlier this decade. In this type of climate, networking vendors must be extremely careful with their marketing dollars and invest in the right market segments. Data from ESG’s ...
Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group explains that “today, WAN optimization has evolved from being seen as a tactical implementation to providing a strategic view of the network.”
via WAN Optimization Outlook « Data Center Knowledge.
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In the past, WAN optimization deployments were fairly tactical, undertaken when network issues stalled the performance of a key application, according to Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Riverbed strengthens ties between monitoring and acceleration gear - Network World.
This week, F5 Networks announced delightful Q1 financial results to Wall Street. Company revenue was up 11%, topping Wall Street estimates; the company hired nearly 100 new employees; and F5 now has a market cap in excess of $4 billion. Share price actually jumped 3% after the announcement.
These results say ...
If Riverbed can solve the performance issues associated with cloud storage in the way the vendor did for applications and data transfers on the WAN, it will open up the entire market, according to Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Riverbed looks to speed cloud applications, storage.
Bob Laliberte, an analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said this will be the next big trend for enterprises.
via Riverbed updates RiOS; Steelhead WAFS device now supports Citrix and disaster recovery.
Bob Laliberte, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said embedded native FCoE connectivity for storage arrays "has been the missing link to end-to-end FCoE. This gives people an opportunity to test it out if they're thinking of putting it in the data center."
via NetApp builds native Fibre Channel over ...
Bob Laliberte, a senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, said: "NetApp now has the world's first true end-to-end FCoE SAN (offering)."
via NetApp fully embraces FCoE • The Register.
