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? [...]
Virtual Dilemmas: Why Virtual Optimization May Be Bad for Your Branch
Apr 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Just about every month I hear about why another company has adopted WAN optimization software. Some like virtual software’s lower costs (well, all like the lower cost), while others focus on how they were able to download and deploy the software in just a matter of hours. All agree that virtual software changes how we [...]
Big Data Follows The Darkness
Apr 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Are you following the darkness? No, not the glam rockers — the regular night-time variety. It used to be that people talked of following the sun, by which they meant passing tasks from site to site around the world — California to Singapore to Ireland, say — so there was always someone awake in their [...]
Business Thrives When Applications Become Services
Apr 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Silver Peak Makes Storage Replication Easy
Apr 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Prior to being an analyst I held many roles in corporate IT, including being responsible for protecting the company’s information, so I understand the absolute mission-critical nature of backup/restore and disaster recovery. However, I also understand that this is one of the hardest things to get right within corporate IT. I’ve often joked that every [...]
If Content Is King, The Network Is The Queen
Apr 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The game of chess requires a keen awareness of the positions for all the pieces, both yours and your opponent’s. Chess requires patient planning and vision; each piece has a different value, and some are more strategic than others. Of most importance is maintaining the safety of the king, by controlling squares on the board. [...]
Using The Mobile WAN for apps? Look Out For Latency!
Apr 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The mobile phone operators promise us blinding speeds, especially with their newest 4G and LTE networks, but will this actually be any use to business — or will deploying your modern apps via smartphone without WAN acceleration make your users feel like they have stepped back into the Dark Age? For the mobile networks, the [...]
Business Critical Applications – Do You Have A Plan?
Apr 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In my last blog entry I pointed out that market research that I recently conducted indicated that in the majority of instances (62%) in which the performance of a business critical application is performing poorly, the company loses money. That metric on its own tells quite a story about the business value of ensuring acceptable [...]
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 [...]
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