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Data deduplication: Declawing the clones
Data deduplication is emerging as a critically important new arrow in the storage administrator's quiver to answer hard questions about the increasing problem in storage growth costs.
Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows
One of the great ironies of storage technology is the inverse relationship between efficiency and security: Adding performance or reducing storage requirements almost always results in reducing the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of a system.
WAN Optimization Whitelists and Blacklists
Optimization is a fantastic way of saving money and creating really happy customers at the same time, but it doesn't work flawlessly for all applications.
WAN Optimization as a Managed Service: It's Not About the Cost
This insight examines how organizations outsourcing their WAN optimization initiatives to a third-party go about achieving their goals for application performance, reducing operational costs, and streamlining enterprise infrastructure.
The Big-IP came in second, but don't count it out. The easiest of all the products to configure (up and running in less than 10 minutes), the Big-IP delivered phenomenal performance and offers excellent scalability options via load-balancing configurations. We would like to see client certificate authentication, and in talking with F5, we learned that this feature is forthcoming, as is the ability to re-encrypt data to back-end Web servers. 



