It has been a busy few weeks for WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors. Among the highlights is Afore Solutions’ introduction of a network acceleration appliance designed to optimize ...

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 ...

It's clear the WAN optimization market is no longer a niche play. According to Gartner, WAN optimization is expected to grow from the $700 million market it was in 2006 to a $1.9 billion market in ...

Glen Dalgleish, vice president of infrastructure services at global perfumer Coty Inc., well remembers why he and his staff had implemented WAN acceleration technology last January: to improve ...

The WAN acceleration tools have a number of tricks. Will this help my voice and video? Not directly, but indirectly. Clients often ask how WAN accelerators like Cisco WAAS or Riverbed Steelhead can ...

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 ...

Any opinions on Mobile WAN acceleration solutions you use today? I know of Riverbed SMC, which requires a management controller and an Steelhead Appliance. Cisco has their WAAS Mobile, which requires ...

Depending on the WAN link and the data, RiOS 6 slashes transfer times from hours to minutes and minutes to seconds The latest release from Riverbed, RiOS 6, continues to define what a WAN optimization ...

We're trying to implement some WAN acceleration devices but we're running into a snag with it being unable to optimize WAN RPC traffic, like AD replication and Exchange MAPI connections. The issue ...

Soderlund, who was ProCurve's vide president and general manager for sales and marketing, will bring his 15 years of industry experience to Certeon as senior vice president of its worldwide sales and ...

Common Internet File System is a remote file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file sharing. CIFS performs poorly over high-latency WAN links because it’s chatty, meaning a large number ...