WAN & App Acceleration Channel
News and Analysis
Brocade Wins Another Round in A10 Patent Lawsuit
Brocade notched another victory in its patent lawsuit against A10 Networks as a federal judge denied a request from A10 to undo a permanent injunction that bars A10 from selling products that infringe on Brocade's patents.
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- Oracle to Acquire Acme for $1.7B
- CloudVelocity Seeks To Champion Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
- Riverbed, 6connect, Ixia Unveil New Products, Services at Interop
- Network Performance Monitoring Pressure Ratchets Up
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Architectures
United Oil Cuts the Wires
United Oil Co., which operates 127 gas stations in Southern California, is abandoning DSL service in favor of 4G to connect its retail locations to headquarters.
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- Carrier Ethernet A Home Run With The Philadelphia Phillies
- Bringing Customer Experience And Business Channel Development Together With IT
- Six Ways To Fail In The Cloud
- WAN Issues Drive Application Deployment And Architecture
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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.
More Reviews & Workshops
- Rapid Backup And Retrieval With Riverbed's Whitewater
- BMC Treads Carefully Among The Giants
- Throwing Bandwidth At Your Network Problems Isn't Enough
- How To Set Up SSH Encrypted MySQL Replication
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Blogs
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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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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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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Riverbed's Granite Virtualizes Branch Office Storage
February 10, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
When Riverbed and others brought WAN acceleration to the market around the turn of the century, many of us hoped that with WAN acceleration we could pull the servers, and the headaches they cause, from branch offices. Unfortunately, many organizations found reasons to keep servers in the branches. Riverbed's new Granite appliance allows organizations to keep servers in their branch offices while eliminating many of the headaches through what Riverbed's calling Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure.
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Raining On Cloud Bursting's Parade
August 09, 2011 01:05 PM
Posted by Mike Fratto
Cloud bursting--the ability to dynamically move processing temporarily to a cloud provider in response to some excess demand--sounds like such a great idea. If successful, you can continue to handle the excess burst without having to acquire new hardware, software and licenses, and, equally important, you can do it right now. But before you start popping champagne corks and taking a celebratory lap, you will likely have some significant hurdles to get over.
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BufferBloat And The Collapse Of The Internet
April 21, 2011 07:00 AM
Posted by David Greenfield
It seems that every few years there's yet another prognosticator that the Internet is about to collapse. Once it was the stellar growth in bandwidth demand driven by the phenomenal increase in Internet-connected devices. At other times, it was the lack of Net neutrality (see this video). Still other times, it was sinister attacks on BGP or the fact that we've run out of IPv4 addresses.
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Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.










