7 Minutes Versus $1.68 Trillion: Why Network Latency Is A Bad Thing

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, [...]

In this difficult economy, network costs can be expensive

With today’s tough economy, it’s more important than ever to get the most out of every IT dollar spent. Today’s networks will continue to expand their range of business and social services with an ever-growing array of bandwidth-consuming applications, such as voice, video, VDI, and other applications going over bandwidth-limited Internet and WAN networks. Enterprise [...]