With Oracle Openworld running this week it’s a good time to think about the performance of applications over the wide area network (WAN). With the changing business environment IT organizations are re-architecting how they deploy enterprise applications. Oracle applications automate …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on October 12, 2009 at 02:05PM
As you deploy optimization to improve application performance over the WAN you need to know what kind of results you are getting. To help understand the benefits of deploying these systems you might be looking at reports from the WAAS …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on September 29, 2009 at 11:55AM
For more of the latest content from the Data Center teams, please check out the full version of the Data Center Newsletter. By Mark Weiner, Data Center Solutions Marketing Enterprises and public sector organizations alike continue to distribute their workers …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on September 21, 2009 at 08:42AM
You’ve seen the problem, or maybe you’re dealing with it now: bloated branch offices make for inconsistent services and unnecessary risk You want to centralize data to make it more available, redundant, and secure… but at the same time, you’ve got to …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on September 18, 2009 at 03:18PM
WAN optimization technology is becoming more strategic to application delivery as IT organizations become more dependent on the WAN for delivery of applications and services to remote users. In initial trials many IT organizations deployed this technology to a few …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on September 14, 2009 at 03:11PM
For the tech hungry, here’s a new TechWiseTV session on localizing branch hosting using the network as the platform (more specifically, using Cisco WAAS to host Microsoft Windows Server 2008 services), as well as other tech topics.
Posted by Mark Weiner on September 13, 2009 at 09:43PM
When comparing your options in WAN optimization controllers you might be hearing conflicting claims about key features and architectures that can make it difficult to figure out what makes one product better than another. Most products on the market today …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on September 09, 2009 at 10:11AM
The first surprise you will get after you consolidate your branch office servers in the data center is that application performance over the WAN falls off and user productivity suffers. To fix this you deploy WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCs) so …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on August 24, 2009 at 09:19AM
Are your WAN services, including WAN Optimization, delivered as a part of a comprehensive plan? These days with the need to reduce costs it’s a good time to rethink how you are serving your branch office IT needs. With advances …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on August 17, 2009 at 08:12AM
The economy is in a downturn and your IT budget is cut and now management is asking you to come up with ideas on how to save money and increase the business’s productivity. There a number of proven initiatives you …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on August 10, 2009 at 09:38AM
Branch office users are crying out for better performance of business-critical applications over the WAN. The impact of latency and congestion as well as limited bandwidth is affecting their productivity. Research shows that business performance starts to decline when applications …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on August 03, 2009 at 07:19AM
WAN Optimization is a top technology under consideration by IT organizations according to research by The Info Pro in their Technology Heat Index report. Many Service Providers are creating WAN Optimization services to meet the requirements of customer who want …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on July 27, 2009 at 05:40PM
In today’s challenging economy many customers are asking how they can reduce IT costs while responding to increasing demands for IT services? What do you do in tough economic times when you need to lower branch office IT spending but …Read more.
Posted by Michael Leonard on July 21, 2009 at 05:13PM
Imagine being tasked with drastically reducing costs of branch IT operations across 80 countries, while ensuring 5,000 geographically dispersed employees have consistent LAN-like access to accounting, enterprise planning, product life-cycle management (PLM) software, video, and document management applications. Paul Stephens, …Read more.
Posted by Feng Meng on July 16, 2009 at 04:54PM
Why will a router-integrated WAN optimization and application acceleration solution give you better ROI results and ease of integration? Here’s a practical example from the world’s largest construction materials company - Lafarge. But don’t just take my words, see what …Read more.
Posted by Feng Meng on July 14, 2009 at 01:08PM
If you are a Fortune 2000-size organization, with 40 branch offices in North America and 10 branch offices in Europe and Asia. How much money can you save by deploying WAN optimization technologies? What kind of ROI should you expect? …Read more.
Posted by Feng Meng on July 10, 2009 at 03:44PM
When Cisco talks about collaboration, Cisco talks about people connecting creating, and innovating .Together. That’s exactly what Cisco , Verizon and their customer are doing with Verizon Managed Optimization Service that uses Cisco WAAS In this short video, Steven Capozzi, …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 09, 2009 at 10:17PM
The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. From …Read more.
Posted by Feng Meng on July 02, 2009 at 04:29PM
If you are looking for a real example of using WAN optimization and Windows Server 2008 together to consolidate and centralize branch IT, here’s a great article just published on Microsoft’s website. Based in Reading, United Kingdom with 5,000 employees …Read more.
Posted by Feng Meng on June 24, 2009 at 03:19PM
Cisco has, and continues to be, committed to utilizing its own technology. Whether it’s been routing and switching over the years, or more recently Telepresence and WAN optimization (WAAS), Cisco IT has repeatedly shown organizations how to improve business processes …Read more.
Posted by Feng Meng on June 23, 2009 at 04:55PM
Sometimes it’s more fun sitting on the panel than it is watching it from the audience. It certainly provided a unique opportunity to watch a group of experienced IT vendor technologists and marketeers all claim to be unique, and THE …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on May 26, 2009 at 05:24PM
In this posting we’ll move from server virtualization and its potential impact on both WANs and IT organizational structures to desktop virtualization (also known as VDI, or virtualized desktop infrastructure). The emerging set of VDI technologies and solutions has many …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on May 11, 2009 at 05:51PM
While server virtualization continues to redefine how (and where) IT and data center teams deploy computing resources, a gap in organizational boundaries still exists in most enterprise and public sector IT organizations that results in “the left hand not knowing …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on April 28, 2009 at 10:41AM
Brad Reese of Network World made a short and very clear posting today around Infonetics most recent market share report on WAN optimization. While I wouldn’t normally re-post or call out an industry observer covering Cisco (or whichever vendor’s) current …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on March 06, 2009 at 08:54AM
Ever been put on hold while calling your bank, or another customer line? A mechanical or sweet voice comes on and says “your call is being monitored for compliance and/or training purposes”. Yeah, they do record our calls. Government and …Read more.
Posted by Shashi Kiran on February 11, 2009 at 12:00AM
It’s interesting that despite the fact that WAN optimization has gained a lot of visibility over the last 4+ years, there are still some generalization about the technology that prospective buyers need to be better educated on. Take this story …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on February 03, 2009 at 09:48AM
Cisco Live in Second Life TechChat: “Scalable, Secure, and Cost-Effective WAN Services with Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers” This TechChat featured Mike Weir, Technical Marketing Engineer Manager, Edge Routing Business Unit, and Matthew Eubanks, Product Manager for Cisco …Read more.
Posted by Dannette Veale on February 03, 2009 at 08:15AM
Expanding or developing an ecosystem from a point product or technology solution to a broad-reaching one is always a beneficial effort from vendors for their customers. HP’s just announced Open Network Ecosystem (ONE) is certainly a logical strategy and effort …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on January 28, 2009 at 09:58AM
Branch IT consolidation is usually interpreted as moving all branch servers to the data center, or at least as many as possibly makes sense. But what about critical branch services that maintain business continuity and performance for branch workers? The …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on January 13, 2009 at 12:51PM
Desktop virtualization has evolved in 2008 as a promising technology, with major vendors announcing or updating their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions. IDC predicts that desktop virtualization will grow to $2 billion annually by 2011, while Gartner forecasts that up …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on December 15, 2008 at 05:46PM
While WAN optimization has long been available to purchase and deploy from network equipment vendors like Cisco, Riverbed and others, the time has come when leading service providers around the world are now offering their customers the strong benefits of …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on November 19, 2008 at 10:15AM
While WAN optimization has proven to be a core and well valued enterprise networking (and broader IT) technology—forecasted at $1.4B for 2008—the availability of service provider managed service offerings for WAN optim. is beginning to hit its stride in 2008. …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on October 16, 2008 at 11:33AM
Microsoft and Cisco have released the public announcement released the public announcement on their joint branch IT solution, Windows Server on WAAS (WoW). As many readers have seen, this solution combines Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (Server Core branch version) with …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on October 01, 2008 at 03:18PM
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