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May 18, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Networks, W A N, Wide Area Networks DEFINITION: A wide area network (WAN) is a geographically dispersed telecommunications network. The term distinguishes a broader telecommunication structure from a local area network (LAN). A wide area network may be privately owned or rented, but the term usually connotes the inclusion of public (shared user) networks. An intermediate form of network in terms of geography is a metropolitan area network (MAN).
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Cloud Performance Hinges on Virtual WAN Acceleration sponsored by Silver Peak WHITE PAPER: It is crucial for WAN optimization techniques to evolve just as quickly as the environment around them. Inside, uncover how virtual WAN optimization can help you achieve the cloud performance your users need. Posted: 02 May 2013 \| Published: 02 May 2013 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| Load Balancing \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Virtual Appliance \| Virtual Machine \| WAN

How WAN Optimization Can Drive Top-Line Revenue sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how boosting application delivery and response time across a global network can improve collaboration and productivity among an increasingly global and mobile workforce. Posted: 24 Apr 2013 \| Published: 24 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Networking \| WAN

Improving Business Value of WAN Optimization - IDC Whitepaper sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Want to achieve faster ROI with WAN optimization? Read the latest IDC report and discover how you can cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve productivity and overall satisfaction. Posted: 24 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| WAN

How WAN Optimization Helps Enterprises Reduce Costs sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To enhance revenue, businesses are investing in technologies that boost productivity. But if it all relies on a network that is being deluged with data, how can IT professionals side-step these issues to increase productivity and reduce costs? Learn more. Posted: 24 Apr 2013 \| Published: 24 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Database Performance Management \| Network Performance \| WAN

Network Performance Management Comes of Age sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Cascade is a new type of tool that incorporates traffic monitoring, packet capture and protocol analysis to provide an application-aware view of the network. Download this white paper from NetMedia to learn how Riverbed Cascade can help to solve your IT performance challenges. Posted: 23 Apr 2013 \| Published: 23 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Data Analytics \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Monitoring Software \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Troubleshooting \| WAN

Network Troubleshooting at the Speed of Thought sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This guide includes a demonstration on how you can accelerate troubleshooting, gain end-to-end visibility, and solve performance problems; a case study that shows how a federal government and defense consultant solved a months-long problem in just 15 minutes; and a webinar that introduces you to Cascade Shark and Cascade Pilot. Posted: 23 Apr 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Monitoring Software \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Rootkits \| Troubleshooting \| WAN

Troubleshooting Your Network Without Breaking the Bank sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: As a network manager, application manager or security manager, you need systems that can collect data across your WAN, continuously analyze the data to discover problems, and troubleshoot issues as soon as they occur. Riverbed Cascade has fundamentally changed the economics of network performance management. Learn more. Posted: 23 Apr 2013 \| Published: 30 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| Network Security \| Networking \| Remote Network Management \| Remote Offices \| Remote Users \| Troubleshooting \| WAN

Troubleshooting Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Deployments with Cascade sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this brief to learn how the Riverbed® Cascade® application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution unlocks VDI visibility. Posted: 22 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Downtime \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| Networking \| SLA \| Troubleshooting \| VDI \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| WAN

Taking a Bite Out of Network Performance Problems - Solution Brief sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Riverbed® Cascade® Pilot and Cascade Shark combine sophisticated, end-to-end monitoring with high-speed, high-fidelity packet capture and analysis to deliver comprehensive network performance monitoring and analysis. Download this insightful solution brief to learn more. Posted: 22 Apr 2013 \| Published: 30 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Networking \| ROI \| Troubleshooting \| WAN

Resolve Performance Issues Within Your Citrix Environment sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Citrix offers significant benefits to IT organizations but alters the performance troubleshooting process due to its unique architecture. Breakthrough new technology flips the Citrix performance management paradigm on its head by providing unprecedented end-to-end visibility of user transactions traversing a Citrix server. Posted: 18 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Networking \| Troubleshooting \| User Experience \| WAN

Evaluating the Performance of Shared WAN Links for Data Center Backup and Disaster Recovery sponsored by Silver Peak WHITE PAPER: Discover how WAN optimization – which employs a set of technologies to improve the bandwidth, latency, and loss characteristics of WAN links – can help you achieve the private line performance you want without the high price tag. Posted: 25 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Backups \| Bandwidth Management \| Data Center Networking \| Disaster Recovery \| IP Networks \| MPLS \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| VPN \| WAN

WAN Acceleration Fast-Tracks Data Protection and Disaster Recovery sponsored by Silver Peak WHITE PAPER: When IT resources become unavailable, business becomes unavailable. In this paper we will explore trends in long-haul data replication, and how enterprises are protecting their data while still achieving RPOs. Posted: 25 Mar 2013 \| Published: 28 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Governance \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Networking \| WAN

Enabling unified access for converged enterprise networks sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise WHITE PAPER: Discover why enabling unified access for a next-generation, application-fluent converged enterprise network will meet the needs of your mobile and remote workforce without breaking the bank or sacrificing the security you need. Posted: 13 Mar 2013 \| Published: 30 Mar 2012 TOPICS: 3G Wireless \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| Converged Networks \| Gigabit Ethernet \| IP Networks \| LAN \| Mobile Workers \| Network Architectures \| Network Capacity \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Security \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Remote Users \| User Experience \| WAN \| Wi-Fi \| Wireless Networks \| WLAN

Public Affairs Television Network Uses Comcast Business Class Ethernet Private Line Service to Reach 3.5 Million Viewers sponsored by Comcast WHITE PAPER: Find out the steps a Washington state based TV station took in order to ensure that they had reliable, scalable, and cost-effective network connectivity that not only ensured that they would stay on the air, but also saved them $12,000 a year. Posted: 04 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Ethernet Networks \| Network Management \| Network Management Services \| Network Performance \| Scalability Testing \| WAN

Metro Ethernet For Flexible, Scalable Connectivity To Data Centers sponsored by Comcast WHITE PAPER: Find out about a solution that is helping organizations achieve flexible, scalable bandwidth and network connectivity options with the QoS performance and IP transparency organizations need. Read on to learn more. Posted: 04 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Application Hosting \| Applications Management \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| WAN \| WAN Switching

Understanding Business Ethernet Services sponsored by Comcast WHITE PAPER: Discover how Ethernet services can help you meet the demands of today and the future as you explore the different types of services, how they are different, their benefits, and much more! Posted: 01 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Ethernet Cable \| Ethernet Networks \| LAN \| Network Architectures \| Network Capacity \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| VoIP \| WAN

Business Benefits of Software-Based WAN Optimization sponsored by Silver Peak WHITE PAPER: Explore what next-generation, software-based WAN optimization capabilities have to offer your enterprise and learn why such a solution can help you overcome the challenges of today's corporate WAN. Posted: 21 Jan 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Data Center Networking \| Disaster Recovery \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Networking \| RPO \| RTO \| Software as a Service \| WAN

ESG - What's Needed for Cloud Computing sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model. Posted: 18 Jan 2013 \| Published: 18 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Private Cloud \| Public Cloud \| Public cloud computing \| WAN

Four Little-Known Ways WAN Optimization Can Benefit Your Organization sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Today's comprehensive WAN optimization solutions can improve just about every major IT initiative. Read this short white paper to learn how next-generation WAN optimization solutions can benefit your organization more than ever before. Posted: 18 Jan 2013 \| Published: 01 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Mobile Device Management \| Network Management \| Networking \| WAN

ESG - Optimizing Collaboration Environments for Maximum Productivity sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Microsoft SharePoint is a powerful collaboration tool proliferating throughout enterprises. Download this white paper to learn about the challenges of optimizing a web-based SharePoint environment and how to address all the requirements across the application and technology stack to deliver the best return on investment for the business. Posted: 18 Jan 2013 \| Published: 18 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Collaborative Applications Software \| Collaborative Product Development \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| SharePoint \| WAN

IDC - Data Center Transformation and Its Impact on Branch IT sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To deliver higher-performance services worldwide, IT departments must extend the datacenter's virtual edge to branch offices where services are delivered locally from centrally managed infrastructure. Download to learn about the changing role of branch IT in the age of datacenter transformation. Posted: 18 Jan 2013 \| Published: 28 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Remote Computing \| Remote Office Connectivity \| Remote Offices \| Remote Users \| Virtual Machine \| VM \| WAN

ESG - Practical Advice for Streamlining Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To succeed and thrive, today's organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions. Posted: 18 Jan 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Disaster Recovery \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Storage Virtualization \| WAN

Increase IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud with WAN Optimization - Taneja Group sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Pressured IT departments today need a solid WAN optimization solution to help handle consolidation and increased data mobility. Read this solution profile white paper to get an in-depth look at one such solution. Posted: 18 Jan 2013 \| Published: 01 Jun 2010 TOPICS: Cloud Management \| Data Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| WAN

QoS, Keeping it Simple sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper dissects Quality of Service (QoS) by answering your most pressing questions on the matter. View now to learn enough about QoS so you can build a QoS policy that is just right for your network's and organization's needs. Posted: 10 Jan 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| QOS \| RTP \| TCP \| WAN

Results Are In: Eight WAN Optimization Vendors Evaluated sponsored by Silver Peak WHITE PAPER: This research paper evaluates seven competitors in the WAN optimization market based upon product and vendor criteria, strengths and weaknesses, and best use scenarios. Read now for help making a more informed purchasing decision. Posted: 01 Nov 2012 \| Published: 01 Nov 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Caching \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Deduplication \| Desktop Virtualization \| Disaster Recovery \| IPv6 \| Mobile Workers \| Network Appliances \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Virtual Appliance \| WAN

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