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WAN & App Acceleration Channel

News and Analysis

Best of Interop 2013 Winners

The Best of Interop awards recognize innovative hardware and software that advances the state of the art in IT. Interop’s panel of expert judges poured through 149 submissions in seven categories, including networking, mobility, security and storage. Awards were also presented for Grand Award winner, Best Startup, and Audience Choice. Check out the products that took the prize!

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Architectures

University Taps Dark Fiber for Online Academics, Healthcare

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center turns to a new network architecture and dark fiber to support the academic and healthcare needs of dozens of regional campuses and clinics.

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Reviews & Workshops

Coyote Point Brings Next-Gen Networking to Life with Innovative Appliances

When it comes to WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions, big name vendors such as F5 Networks, Riverbed BlueCoat and Barracuda normally get all the press. After all, squeezing maximum performance out of a WAN and its associated applications has quickly become job No. 1 for most network managers. However, smaller vendors are striving to one-up the big names with new connectivity methodologies and technical advancements. Case in point is CoyotePoint.

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Blogs

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Inside Google's Software-Defined Network

May 14, 2013 02:54 PM
Posted by Brent Salisbury

Google shared details on its production use of OpenFlow in its SDN network at this spring's Open Networking Summit.

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Tags: Google, OpenFlow, software-defined network, SDN, Quagga, ONS, Amin Vahdat, merchant silicon

Channel: WAN & App Acceleration, Next Gen Network, , Data Center, , Virtualization

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Citrix Merges Repeater Features With CloudBridge

May 09, 2013 04:30 PM
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CloudBridge now optimizes WANs; WatchGuard appliances expand Hyper-V support; Aryaka portal monitors more than WANs; Enterasys builds out SDN ecosystem.

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Tags: Interop, Citrix, WatchGuard, Aryaka, Enterasys, WAN, SDN

Channel: Interop, WAN & App Acceleration, Security, Next Gen Network,

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Whiptail Breaks Vendor Lock-in On Storage Replication

March 29, 2013 03:22 PM
Posted by Howard Marks

Replication between data centers typically required customers to buy two of the same storage arrays from a vendor. Storage company Whiptail has added heterogeneous replication to its array, which lets customers use Whiptail and any other system.

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Tags: Whiptail, replication, data center, disaster recovery, array, solid state

Channel: Data Protection, Data Center, , Storage & Mgmt, WAN & App Acceleration, Tapes and Disks

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Silver Peak, F5 Put Virtual Appliances in Amazon Cloud

December 04, 2012 07:10 AM
Posted by Michael Biddick

Many networking vendors offer virtualized appliances that can run in a hypervisor. Now more vendors moving those appliances into public clouds.

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Tags: Silver Peak, F5, Riverbed, virtual appliances, AWS, Amazon, cloud

Channel: Networking & Mgmt, Private Cloud, Next Gen Network, WAN & App Acceleration, Public Cloud, Virtualization

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Keep Old Apps Private, Make New Apps Public

October 17, 2012 02:00 AM
Posted by Joe Onisick

Just because you slip a hypervisor under an application doesn't make it equally suited to private and public clouds. Know the differences to get the most from your application deployments.

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Tags: cloud, public cloud, private cloud, virtualization, uptime, BYOD

Channel: Public Cloud, Next Gen Network, Virtualization, Private Cloud, WAN & App Acceleration

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Day 2 at EMC World: Touching Base With EMC Partners

May 23, 2012 09:52 AM
Posted by Mike Fratto

We check in with EMC partners and others at the vendor's annual conference. Get the latest from VCE, find out what's new with EMC flash storage and learn why Infineta may be worth watching.

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Tags: EMC World, storage, flash storage, WAN optimization, software-defined networking

Channel: Servers & Storage, WAN & App Acceleration, Storage & Mgmt, Networking & Mgmt

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