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 ...

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 ...

In our last several columns, we’ve been exploring the history of the Enterprise WAN and the consequences of that history. The combination of reliable but very expensive private WAN Frame Relay and now ...

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 ...

Riverbed, the wide-area network optimisation company, has announced two new products, aimed at boosting the performance of applications and storage in the cloud. Cloud Steelhead is a public cloud wide ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The processes and practices for managing disk storage, including backup and protection, are ...

In the world of backup and disaster recovery, we’re constantly looking for performance advantages and ways to save space, especially as the storage requirements grow exponentially over time. Data ...