An explosion of data being stored by businesses and the need to protect that data in the wake of recent natural disasters has 72% of organizations wanting to do more off-site data replication. This is according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Silver Peak. So what’s keeping today’s IT organizations [...]
Wide Area Network Bottlenecks Persist (Video)
Feb 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Whether it’s increasing data volumes, expanding data replication requirements, or the overall growth of traffic on the Internet, there is no denying that the wide area network (WAN) bottleneck is more of a problem today than ever before. In fact, the increase in traffic and data traversing enterprise networks is outpacing the level of innovation [...]
Hyper-V goes Multi-Gigabit over the WAN (Video)
Feb 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The performance of hypervisors has reached a new level of intense competition. This video demonstrates the industry’s first and only multi-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) WAN acceleration solution for Windows Server Hyper-V environments. Silver Peak’s virtual offering for Windows Server Hyper-V now extends from small remote offices to large data centers, giving Microsoft Corp.’s hypervisor customers a highly [...]
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, [...]
Three Ways File Caching Can Slow Your Network
Nov 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
You know the old adage: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The same could be said about local file caching. On the surface of things, file caching sounds like a fantastic tool for overcoming problems in the wide area network (WAN). By storing remote files in a local cache it [...]
Global Design Firm Speeds AutoCAD & Revit Over Long Distances (Video)
Sep 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Design professionals and project managers at award-winning architecture and interior design firm dwp | design worldwide partnership collaborate and exchange large-size design blueprints and documents daily between offices in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. With key productivity applications, such as file, email, web, AutoCAD, and Revit, becoming more bandwidth-, processing- and storage-intensive, dwp has [...]
Going the Distance Down Under
Sep 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Next Generation Cloud and Your Network (Video)
Mar 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The wide area network, or WAN, is essential to next-generation cloud computing. This video featuring Forrester Research analyst Vanessa Alvarez looks at what is required for next-generation cloud implementations and the critical role the wide area network plays in the success of cloud deployments. Forrester’s Vanessa Alvarez highlights the importance of automation, flexibility, and agility [...]
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