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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My previous post explained how to minimize the time and risk associated with using a WAN to transfer backup files to a secondary location. This installment builds on that advice by telling you how to ...

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 ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Adoption of software-defined wide-area ...

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 ...

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 ...