Even as the world becomes “a smaller place” thanks to technology, organizations still can experience difficulties when their offices are spread out around the country, particularly when it comes to things like data replication for disaster recovery. This was the issue for Greg Rowe and Associates (GRA), a Perth, Australia-based planning practice offering services crucial [...]
End of the Ubiquitous Six to Nine Month IT Project
Jul 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I used to work in Digital Equipment Corporation’s (DEC’s) corporate IT organization at a time when DEC had roughly 125,000 employees worldwide. In hindsight, most of the time I was at DEC was spent going to meetings. For example, for one stretch of about two years, I was one of several participants in a weekly [...]
The Four Lies of Networking
May 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Big Data and networking in general are all about numbers and statistics. We talk about our Petabytes of data, the number of packets per second and the Mbytes replicated in an hour. We want to know about the uptime percentages of our services and the time to repair on our circuits. We’re sold on loss [...]
WANop Turbo Charges Dell DR
May 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Disaster recovery is a bit of a necessary evil in business. It’s one plan that you absolutely must have in place, but hope you never need to use. Inevitably, though, in some way, shape or form, all businesses need to do some measure of disaster recovery at some point. It doesn’t take a tsunami or [...]
Why Software-based Virtual WANop is Taking Off (Video)
May 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As a pioneer in virtual WAN optimization, we also like to pioneer how you get more quality information about virtual WANop and WANop in general. Taking a slightly different approach, this is the first of a new series of video blogs where I bring you closer to the Silver Peak community of product experts, partners [...]
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 [...]
Speaking the Same Language
Mar 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Every industry has its own language. In most cases, if your comfort zone happens to be outside the space identified by that profession, you may find yourself empathizing with mono-linguistic tourists in a foreign country. Such is the case for those not firmly entrenched in the high-tech industry. Recently, the San Jose Mercury News ran an article [...]
A WAN Revolution
Feb 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
In 1787, during the very early years following the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson expressed to another future U.S. President, James Madison, the belief that “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.” While 225 years ago “rebellion,” or its synonym “revolution,” may have been a “good thing” only now and then, in today’s [...]
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 [...]
Is data center consolidation causing bloating and congestion?
Jan 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you answered “yes,” well, I’ve got the remedy. If your enterprise is feeling the ill effects of poor WAN performance, you may assume it’s a bandwidth problem. If you invested in more bandwidth and a bigger pipe to ease the pain, and the problem persisted, the problem may be due to packet loss, latency [...]
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