WAN & App Acceleration Channel
Blogs
Riverbed Gets Cloudy
November 12, 2010 08:57 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
While cloud applications and WAN (Wide Area Network if I have to spell it out) acceleration seem like they would go together like Chicken and Waffles running a WAN acceleration appliance, even a virtual one, on your favorite cloud provider's platform would mean you had to keep a VM up, running and ticking off per hour charges all the time. If your cloud application was sending data to a storage provider like Iron Mountain or Nirvanix you wouldn't even have that option. Now Riverbed's Cloud Steelhead and Whitewater make the cloud seem closer to you than ever.
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Windows Server 2008: A WAN Op Strategy
July 30, 2010 11:00 AM
Posted by Randy George
Bluecoat, Citrix, F5, Riverbed and other similar vendors all offer highly functional and well performing WAN Optimization appliances. Unfortunately, those high-end solutions can be either overkill or over budget for some organizations. So, instead of buying the whole pizza, why not try a slice first?
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Get Ready For The Impact Of 2048-bit RSA Keys
July 22, 2010 09:00 AM
Posted by Randy George
If you've had to renew an SSL certificate for any of your critical infrastructure delivery devices recently, then you probably took notice of the need to generate and deliver at least a 2048-bit CSR to your Certificate Authority of choice. While this new standard may have little impact on you, for others the impact may be huge.
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End-to-End APM, Who Needs It Anyway?
July 15, 2010 09:00 AM
Posted by Michael Biddick
Determining if your organization needs APM requires careful assessment of how application performance is affecting the bottom line. If application performance does not have a direct impact on the business, you may not need APM. The added management effort, deployment costs and maintenance fees may just add more overhead to an already strained IT budget. Using existing component level monitoring and management tools may be sufficient for your needs.
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Coyote Point E650GX: Server Virtualization 3.0 Embodied In An Application Delivery Controller
July 09, 2010 10:30 AM
Posted by Frank Berry
In a previous article, I wrote about "Server Virtualization 3.0 and Load Balancing," where I discussed the importance of advanced load balancing solutions that allow VMware servers to provide proactive load balancing metrics. These load-balancers use the well-defined VMware API to query VMware and gather CPU load, memory utilization and other status information for virtual servers running under VMware. The focus of this article is the Coyote Point E650GX Application Delivery Controller and Virtual Load Balancing Advanced software, products that embody Server Virtualization 3.0 because of their tight integration with VMware.
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SMB Storage Replication: Acceleration VS More Bandwidth
June 24, 2010 08:00 AM
Posted by Randy George
With the cost of secondary storage and bandwidth plummeting, does it really make sense to invest in expensive acceleration solutions to service your storage replication needs? Faced with tight capital budgets, small organizations in particular should consider a "backward thinking" approach. Today, you can get 5TB of Amazon S3 storage for $150/month, and for another $100, you can get a nice fat business class internet pipe to ship your storage there. Compare that annual operational cost with the capital cost of 5TB of on-site storage and WAN acceleration, and you have a tough cost vs. benefit decision to make.
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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.
