Earlier this week I was being pre-briefed on an interesting open-source productivity suite when our VoIP-based connection crashed, and it took over 7 minutes before we were able to reconnect. That’s not a long time for a journalist or a couple of vendor executives, but for many others, 7 minutes is an eternity. What’s worse, [...]
Silver Peak Makes Storage Replication Easy
Apr 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Prior to being an analyst I held many roles in corporate IT, including being responsible for protecting the company’s information, so I understand the absolute mission-critical nature of backup/restore and disaster recovery. However, I also understand that this is one of the hardest things to get right within corporate IT. I’ve often joked that every [...]
If Content Is King, The Network Is The Queen
Apr 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The game of chess requires a keen awareness of the positions for all the pieces, both yours and your opponent’s. Chess requires patient planning and vision; each piece has a different value, and some are more strategic than others. Of most importance is maintaining the safety of the king, by controlling squares on the board. [...]
Using The Mobile WAN for apps? Look Out For Latency!
Apr 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The mobile phone operators promise us blinding speeds, especially with their newest 4G and LTE networks, but will this actually be any use to business — or will deploying your modern apps via smartphone without WAN acceleration make your users feel like they have stepped back into the Dark Age? For the mobile networks, the [...]
€200,000 in IT Savings Buys Silver Peak a Sweet Trophy
Apr 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
More great news from the UK… Silver Peak has won the prestigious “Network Project of the Year – Private Sector” award from Network Computing magazine for our deployment at United Drug. Silver Peak, in conjunction with our local reseller, Comsys, helped United Drug with a major data center consolidation project, which included a substantial overhaul [...]
Business Critical Applications – Do You Have A Plan?
Apr 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In my last blog entry I pointed out that market research that I recently conducted indicated that in the majority of instances (62%) in which the performance of a business critical application is performing poorly, the company loses money. That metric on its own tells quite a story about the business value of ensuring acceptable [...]
SMTC Keeps Global Data Flowing
Apr 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
SMTC (Nasdaq: SMTX) is a global electronics manufacturing services provider that has more than 2,000 employees who rely on a variety of centrally-hosted applications including ERP, Windows-based file sharing, and remote desktop (RDP) connections. Like many other companies similar in size to SMTC, increasing data volumes and a congested MPLS network were impeding the company’s long-distance [...]
How Is Application Delivery like a Successful Economy?
Apr 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A successful economy begins with government leaders who empower their people to thrive and prosper. But, what really defines a growing, successful global economic system? A successful and growing economy provides adequate jobs, affordable housing, and accessible medical care. It’s about having the right resources to meet consumer and business demands. A successful economy maintains [...]
It’s Time to Chop Down the Spanning Tree
Mar 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I believe it was the esteemed singer/songwriter, John Lennon, who uttered the words: “Imagine there’s no spanning tree, it’s easy if you try, No multi-tiers below us, just a flat network like the sky, Imagine all the users, living for the apps…” I recently spoke at Avaya’s Technology Forum, the company’s data networking event (yes, [...]
Mobile Computing is a Double-Edged Sword
Mar 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Mobile computing has become an essential part of our daily lives for both personal and business use. A vast number of employees are already using their own mobile devices at work, and mobile computing is quickly becoming a key strategy for virtually every organization. It’s easy to see why Facebook is capitalizing on its success [...]
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