Jim participated in a recent Network World chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. This is the third in a series of newsletters that will expand upon the ...

I (will) have two vanilla ESXi servers sitting at either end of a 10Mbit WAN link. Both are DASD-only at the moment, though they'll eventually (as in, in a year or more) be on a FC SAN. Once they're ...

Last time, we delved into the reasons that packet loss has such an enormous impact on application performance over the WAN in the first place. This time we’ll begin to look at the ways that various ...

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. CTI Foods obtains multiple benefits from its turnkey WAN optimization appliances, including data deduplication, bandwidth ...

After six years and dozens of product reviews, I still can’t find anything really sexy about WAN acceleration and optimization. What is sexy — at least to upper management — is making better use of ...

An innocent change to an AutoCAD file format has cut sharply into the ability of some WAN acceleration solutions to speed the transfer of these files, and caused grumblings in some widely distributed ...

IT departments can reap enormous benefits from virtualizing applications and implementing Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI). However, the management and cost savings of virtualization can be lost ...

Silver Peak’s EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform is now certified by Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud. With the addition of Google Cloud to Silver Peak’s partner ecosystem ...