Today, ensuring fast access to applications and information over the WAN is anything but simple. As network traffic mushrooms, user complaints multiply and bandwidth costs escalate. Datacenter consolidation, and cloud-based applications and infrastructure are further complicating WAN management. This white paper provides key insight for IT professionals interested in accelerating user performance by two to three hundred times, reducing bandwidth for files, storage and email by 50 to 95 percent, and making consolidation and centralization possible.