Managed WAN optimization services, from such companies as AT&T, BT Global Services and Orange Business, provide an option for application performance improvements. A tech-support call starts it all.

When I asked WAN optimization veterans to weigh in on what they think will be the biggest technology and industry trends to watch during the year ahead, the economy (not surprisingly) played a part in ...

SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) has emerged as a revolutionary technology in the ever-evolving enterprise networking landscape. By enhancing network agility and optimizing performance, ...

Wide Area Networks (WANs) have linked computer systems, devices and users for more than 40 years, enabling people to access and share files, e-mail and run applications. As WAN hardware and software ...

As businesses become globally distributed, business applications are more dependent on the WAN than ever before. While WAN capacity is abundant and inexpensive, negative characteristics of the WAN ...

The company’s strategy centers on four “fundamental pillars,” made up of WAN optimization, application performance, network visibility, and with a caveat SD-WAN. The company’s new strategy centers on ...

With the potential for an avian flu pandemic keeping disaster recovery plans front of mind, Positive Networks recently announced a remote access solution to keep users connected in a crisis. Positive ...

You know what makes network administrators happy? Making efficient use of their equipment and eliminating “performance stinks” calls from end-users. Thus, investing in an effective WAN optimization ...

Returning to our discussion on virtual appliances one of the areas where we are seeing a lot of use of virtual appliance technology is in the WAN optimization market. WAN optimization has been atop ...

Part of the challenge in optimizing applications is knowing where to begin. Lori MacVittie would like to have us believe that the right approach is to deploy a holistic application delivery solution ...

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. was struggling with a classic problem: how to protect and secure data at remote sites without putting a technical support person at each site. Giving end users ...

As the enterprise becomes more dispersed and applications continue to greedily gobble up precious WAN bandwidth, IT struggles to find ways to coax just a little more performance out of its existing ...