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Despite cost and complexity, EII's rewards can be great. Of the seven suites we tested, our top pick demonstrated easy configuration, caching capabilities and exceptional data integration.
Our parent company needed a new Layer 7 switch, and we needed a testing scenario. The result was a joint review of content switches from four top names. These devices can dig deep into payloads and have made strides in configurability. See which won our Editor's Choice--and which company received a purchase order from CMP Media.
We tested four accelerators, which use caching, compression and QoS to speed data across your network. But only one earned our Editor's Choice award, thanks mainly to its superior management software.
Verizon Business introduced Application Acceleration Service, a suite of services that improve the performance of Web applications. The suite repackages a set of services from Netli.
AppScaler focuses on framework-specific application acceleration with new appliances.
Will F5's bid to bring together WAN acceleration and AFE functionality catch on in enterprises, or will the new device's Web-traffic focus stifle demand?
F5 Networks and Packeteer led the Application Delivery Controller and WAN Optimization segments that made up the $1.2 billion worldwide application acceleration market in 2005, respectively displacing rivals Cisco Systems and Stratacache, according to a recent report.
New search appliances claim to be uniquely adapted to meet enterprise needs. We tested eight enterprise search products and analyzed the technology's security and architectural implications. Our take: The math just doesn't add up.
With wide area file services, your remote users can access a central data center as if it were local. We tested three applications that speed data to wherever your users are. Our Editor's Choice impressed us with its solid reporting and performance.
The Orbital 6000 series provides flow control, compression, service class policies, and Common Internet File System acceleration to allow increased WAN throughput and application response time.
Juniper buys two startups in the application acceleration market for a total $469 million, to better compete against Cisco in the enterprise market.
RiOS 4.0 enables optimization of SSL-encrypted traffic, but rival Blue Coat claims capability is old news.
DataPower Technology has developed XML acceleration hardware capable of processing data at a rate of a gigabit a second.
Rainfinity's RainWall High Availability Platform will provide load balancing and high availability for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004.
Application acceleration appliance. Say it three times fast. See them at N+I.
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