Enterprises worldwide have a lot to learn about WAN optimization, which presents a good opportunity for vendors. That’s one of the conclusions of Gartner in its study of companies’ use of QoS and WAN ...

Last time, we cited a recent survey in which we interviewed IT professionals on their company’s use of network management in general, and their use of WAN application optimization techniques in ...

Experiences like this are why WAN optimization has bolted up the IT priority list, and why we're seeing a flurry of vendor activity. Weinberger's decision came down to buying more bandwidth or buying ...

Aberdeen’s benchmark report, “Optimizing WAN for Application Acceleration” (see also the latest research, “Managed Network Services: Beyond Cost Savings and Uptime”), found that Best-in-Class ...

WAN optimization in a large enterprise is a nascent and headline-grabbing market. Still, IT managers are faced with the burning question: Is it really worth the investment? The technology uses ...

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 ...

Bottlenecks like high latency and choked bandwidth between the branch office and headquarters may be a thing of the past, if companies apply the latest WAN optimization techniques, says routing and ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silver Peak today announced the NX-700, a new low-cost, small form-factor WAN optimization platform for connecting the smallest of branch offices with data center ...

Silver Peak (News - Alert), a developer of data center class WAN optimization appliances, announced that it has integrated its data center class WAN optimization solutions with the new EMC (News - ...

SD-WAN (software-defined wide-area networks) and SASE (secure-access service edge) are arguably the most transformative networking technologies in the past three decades. Nearly all network ...

Security and wide-area network acceleration company Blue Coat Systems Inc. has made a deal to buy Packeteer Inc., a longtime WAN optimization vendor, for about $268 million. Blue Coat will integrate ...

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