When I was younger I waited tables at a neighborhood restaurant. When I first met with the general manager, I promised to work hard to make the customer’s dining experience exceptional. I knew the difference between a good dining experience and a bad one. Little did I know how difficult it would be to deliver [...]
Don’t Let Your Network Suffer From Tunnel Vision
Mar 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“Tunnel Vision” is a medical condition involving a loss of one’s peripheral vision, but most also know the term as a description of a certain mentality: the tendency to focus on a narrow or limited point of view or perspective. Most, if not all, organizations have many applications going over WANs. They may even have [...]
What’s the Real Value of WANop Price/Performance?
Jun 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Value, as it relates to WAN optimization, is the combined benefit of an efficient network infrastructure and the economics of managing and growing a business. Performance value represents the WAN optimization product’s ability to deliver maximum throughput capacity, network reliability, faster application delivery and more optimal bandwidth utilization. When you divide the cost savings and [...]
WAN Optimization Reinvents Itself
Apr 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
WAN optimization has been around for years, but where it was initially developed to improve the performance of applications accessed across a wide area network (WAN), primarily from the data center to branch or remote offices, increasingly it is showing up in data center-to-data center applications. And what was once largely a market dominated by [...]
Too Good To Be True? Nope!
Mar 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Have you ever heard of something that sounded so good, it must be “too good to be true”? So you checked it out, and sure enough, it was as good, or even better, than you expected. Can you imagine getting cool, new technology that could cost tens-of-thousands of dollars – for free? This same technology could [...]
Look! On the Internet! It’s a Phone! It’s an iPad! It’s a Laptop!
Mar 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
No… It’s all of them! OK, the title is a poor attempt to play off the Superman theme. Hopefully, it was enough to get your attention. And it is relevant for today’s network computing environment for virtually any enterprise. Not only are employees accessing applications and downloading files from these devices and others, they are [...]