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Network Optimization

Sponsored by Riverbed

RiverbedRiverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide-area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility — all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive.

Sponsored Content

Business Value of Performance IDC White Paper

This white paper explains how a single WAN optimization solution optimizes TCP/IP traffic so that users can enjoy LAN-like access to important data and applications regardless of their location.

Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization

Download this white paper on cost-savings through WAN optimization and discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months through significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation.

Forrester Consulting - Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World

This Forrester report explores the many benefits that WAN optimization can bring to your business.

An In-Depth Look at ROI

This white paper discusses a WAN optimization solution that offers a compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives.

5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation

Read this white paper to learn the five steps of a successful IT consolidation project, and ensure that your organization experiences the full benefits of IT consolidation.

Mobile WAN Optimization Can Help Cut Costs and Avoid Future Upgrades

This report introduces the concept of mobile WAN optimization and provides three case studies including RCM, PRTM and Einstein that highlight how this emerging technology can help IT departments achieve what previously appeared to be conflicting goals.

Blogs

IBM Draws Networking Strength

HP has networking in-house. Cisco started out with networking and now has its own server line. So if you're IBM at a time when fully integrated data center platforms are all the rage and you've stacked your deck with server and storage technology, how do you reassure customers that you have the...More >

HP and 3Com: It's All About the Core

It's hard to look at a deal the like Hewlett-Packard's $2.7 billion buyout of 3Com outside the lens of the major corporate-industrial machinations that are driving the data center sector right now. And clearly, this one will have a significant impact on the fortunes of not only HP and 3Com, but...More >

Managing VDI Network Traffic

Desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI) is poised to make a big push into the data center in the coming year, and by all accounts the top vendors have bent over backward to ensure their platforms can take root easily and seamlessly in legacy architectures. But that doesn't mean the entire...More >

Articles & Interviews

Wireless and the Coming Battle over Net Neutrality

One of the thorniest issues that the newly installed leadership of the Federal Communications Commission is dealing with is net neutrality. In the long run, it’s likely that the trickiest part of the overall topic will be the application of the concept to the wireless world. The net neutrality... More >

The Cloud Atop a Virtual Network

IT Business Edge's Arthur Cole spoke with Ken Ferderer, CTO of LineSider Technologies . Cole: Enterprises were already having a tough enough time managing applications and data across virtual environments. What are some of the unique challenges they face as they head out onto the cloud? ... More >

Network Automated Tools Don't Put Humans out of Jobs

Picture the scene: It is 5:00 p.m. on a weekday and you have been alerted that your firewall has crashed. Thankfully, you have a spare on-site and you manage to have that up and running quickly in factory default setting. How do you recover the config from the firewall that has just crashed? Who is... More >

Apparent Networks Launches Cloud Performance Center

Mike Vizard over at our CTO Edge site discusses a free service from Apparent Networks that sets out to allay fears businesses have regarding the network performance of the wide area networks that link them to their cloud computing providers. Apparent Networks' Cloud Performance Center offers performance data on... More >

Xangati Gives Service Providers More Visibility

Unfortunately for ISPs, its difficult for them to get a good idea of who is consuming what type of content on their networks. Xangati hopes to help with this problem. Our CTO Edge site reports that Xangati is releasing a version of its application management software that will show ISPs what types of... More >

YouTube Goes Hi-Def

YouTube, the Google-owned online video sharing Web site, says it will begin supporting video capture of up to 1080p, a resolution level used in high-definition televisions, next week. Videos already on the site that were shot in 1080p are being re-encoded as well, says YouTube Blog . Videos uploaded to the site will... More >