With a basic web application, the user sends a request over the network to a server that returns the application or content to the user’s browser. The browser simply renders and displays the information from the formatted pages sent from the server. However, many of today’s web applications are much more complex with a lot [...]
Yes, Size Does Matter (Especially When It Comes To ADC Performance)
Apr 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’m not sure why this happens, but it seems that every few years, this industry likes to debate the death of certain markets. Application Delivery Controllers, particularly the tried-and-true hardware platforms, have been under attack before and seem to be again. To me, the concept that you could just build ADC functionality into another product [...]
7 Minutes Versus $1.68 Trillion: Why Network Latency Is A Bad Thing
Apr 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WAN Optimization: More Byte For The Buck!
Feb 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Network budgets, at least the data-center segment (10% compound annual growth through 2017), are outpacing overall IT budget growth (3.9% for 2013), but with network demands growing in double and triple digits, just throwing more money at the problem won’t do. Your network not only has to be bigger and faster, it has to be [...]
The Need to Plan for WAN Evolution
Jan 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In a previous entry here on the WAN Speak blog I discussed some of the differences between the LAN and the WAN. I also pointed out that there are not any fundamentally new WAN technologies under development, and that as a result, IT organizations need to plan for WAN evolution based on the assumption that, [...]
In this difficult economy, network costs can be expensive
Dec 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
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