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Riverbed Updates APM Suite for Multi-Tier Applications

April 05, 2013 01:16 PM
News roundup: Riverbed OPNET AppInternals Xpert integrates with popular IDEs; Big Switch debuts SDN thin switch; Silver Peak speeds up data replication; Sendmail simplifies migration to cloud email.

WAN Optimization and the VDI Challenge

February 14, 2011 11:56 AM
I was sitting in on a peer-to-peer exchange about virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) hosted by Wikibon and listening to how great VDI is for organizations. I asked about multisite VDI and what recommendations people had for implementing VDI between sites. The speaker paused and said that she hadn't see any multisite implementations. No surprise there. VDI itself is still in its infancy, but it hit me once again that if organizations are going to see VDI's benefits at the remote office, they've got to pay close attention to their WAN acceleration layer.

Gartner: WAN Optimization Adapts To New Demands

January 05, 2011 01:54 PM
In its just-released Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCS), Gartner looks at the current state of the WAN optimization market. This Gartner magic quadrant shows a picture of a mature market that is adapting to customer demands, with an increased focus on cloud and data center-to-data center deployments, the consolidation of branch office hardware and increased support for mobile users.

Silver Peak Virtual WAN Optimizer Targets Data Center Replication

November 17, 2010 10:23 AM
Silver Peak announced on Tuesday version 4.0 of its operating system and a new virtual appliance for data center replication. Silver Peak's VRX-8 is a virtual WAN optimization appliance built on VMWare ESX and targeted at applications that require data center replication, such as business continuity. The appliance offers a whopping throughput of 1 Gbits/s, the highest claimed rate for any virtual appliance and includes support for popular Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) replication applications.

Citrix, Microsoft Collaborate On Branch Office Appliance

August 23, 2006 11:30 AM
Companies plan a family of offerings targeting branch offices of different sizes.

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