I am constantly getting emails with “Best Practice” advice — for everything from traveling to IT. Well, it got me thinking: why doesn’t anyone provide “Worst Practice” advice? Can’t we all learn from other people’s mistakes? So here goes, this is my top 5 list of misconceptions and things to avoid in the data acceleration [...]
What’s the Real Value of WANop Price/Performance?
Jun 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Value, as it relates to WAN optimization, is the combined benefit of an efficient network infrastructure and the economics of managing and growing a business. Performance value represents the WAN optimization product’s ability to deliver maximum throughput capacity, network reliability, faster application delivery and more optimal bandwidth utilization. When you divide the cost savings and [...]
Caution: Merging Traffic Ahead
Mar 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I dread merging traffic signs. We all know what happens when the road we’re merging with another road: traffic congestion. It’s logical, right? When 30 cars on one road converge with 50 cars from another, a backup is eminent. (The 101 and 280 interchange in the Bay Area is a perfect example.) Network traffic experiences [...]
You Can’t Squeeze Blood Out of a Turnip
Feb 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
They say you can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip. And if you could, why would you? However, you can squeeze more bandwidth into your network. And by doing so, you can support more users and applications, and gain more throughput for faster delivery of applications. With the abundance of IP-enabled devices and converged networks, [...]
Just Because You Don’t See It, Doesn’t Mean It’s Not There
Jan 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.” Shawn Fanning, Napster Founder Planning to support data center growth with reliable and sustainable network infrastructure is in some ways like [...]
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