“You can’t fit a square peg into a round hole” is a simple statement that applies to many things in our lives. It certainly applies to the way many network administrators attempt to use data center and networking technologies to support their business goals and objectives. For example, if you have 100 applications that are [...]
WANop Flesh Wound From Slings And Arrows?
Oct 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Recently, WAN optimization has been subject to a lot of troubling news, and if not suffering “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” then the gist of them has been more than it’s “only a flesh wound.” Regardless which muse brightens your day, Shakespeare’s “slings” or Monty Python’s “wound,” the reality is that WANop concerns [...]
Not Your Father’s WANop
Sep 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it, by definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.” – Steve Jobs WAN optimization [...]
VX-Xpress: Promoting World Connectedness
Nov 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In our last two posts, we have accomplished the improbable; we demonstrated that teens and adults can agree on something — that Silver Peak VX-Xpress can significantly improve network performance. This week, I want to build on the “Cool Deployment” post from last week, which illustrated how VX-Xpress improved performance between networks in Texas and [...]
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