Let’s do a quick calculation. How many employees do you have, rounded up to the nearest 100? What percentage of them are mobile? Have they sourced their own devices through BYOD? Do you use VPN access through to a private data center? Hang on… what has the last question got to do with all this? [...]
BYOD: What’s it putting on YOUR network?
Dec 18, 2012 by 1 Comment
Two recent reports from the UK suggest that BYOD is a lot more than a nightmare for security admins: increasingly, it will be a network issue too. Allowing users to connect their own mobile devices at work has the potential to dramatically change the mix of traffic on the company network — and by extension, [...]
There’s a storm coming – a data storm
Nov 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Is your WAN ready for 100 Gigabit Ethernet? Even if it won’t actually have to carry 100Gbit/s — which is probably just as well, given the potential cost of doing that — there is a good chance that it will be interconnecting 100Gig networks within the next few years. There are a lot of reasons [...]
Top Law Firm Optimizes Citrix VDI and Replication (Video)
May 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Law firms commonly rely on the wide area network (WAN) to share files, communicate with clients, and back-up data. Unfortunately, these networks often lack the flexibility to react to fast-paced changes in daily demands. Top real estate law firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP (“Cox, Castle”) experienced this first-hand with application performance challenges using the [...]
I’ll Have Some WANop with That
Mar 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Good service is the core of good business, so it came as little surprise during the last decade that companies in the technology industry began moving toward service models to enhance their ability to serve their customers…and they all came with “catchy” acronyms. It began with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and then moved to Software [...]
Revitalizing an aging WAN
Feb 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Nu Skin Enterprises is a leader in skin care and nutrition. A global direct selling company, it operates in more than 50 markets worldwide, with over 2000 employees. More than 825,000 independent distributors place orders on the Nu Skin website or by contacting regional call centers throughout the world. The company has data centers in [...]
Top of the Channel
Jan 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
OK, actually we’re among the top when it comes to channel-friendly technology vendors that increase data center efficiency in an environmentally and economically friendly manner. This according to the highly respected channel publication CRN, which today announced Silver Peak is one of the “CRN 2012 Data Center 100.” The growth of ‘big data’, cloud-based infrastructures [...]
The Epic Rise of WAN Optimization
Jan 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
Stick around this industry long enough and you’re bound to hear the “same old-same old” posited as if it’s truly novel. Such is the case with this recent post by Lori MacVittie on the “epic failure” of standalone WAN optimization. It advises that to really improve application performance one needs to fix the applications themselves [...]
Good Marketing or Product U-Turn?
Dec 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Riverbed’s announcement of a new “Packet Mode Optimization” feature in RiOS 7 is puzzling. In many ways, it seems like more of a marketing ploy than a serious technology focus. Speaking of technology, I can’t help but be amused at Riverbed’s brand new tunnel-based architecture. Aside from the fact that a new architecture that hasn’t [...]
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