WAN Reports

EGUIDE: While edge switches may not be as powerful or expensive as 10GbE core switches, it is just as important to evaluate these products before investing. This e-guide details your options to help make your decision easier and discusses top considerations before you make an investment.

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 | Published: 08 Mar 2011

EZINE: Many network equipment providers are advocating converged networks that bridge storage, data center servers and networking into one fabric with combined protocols. But is it really necessary to implement convergence throughout the network?

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 | Published: 02 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Design teams across the world collaborate to create and develop prod­ucts. Unfortunately, IT organizations face serious challenges when collaborative teams share large files. This white paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the four technologies most commonly used to enhance file sharing for distributed teams.

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 | Published: 17 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing simplifies enterprise application delivery with resource flexibility, investment-less OPEX models, and no need for specialized in-house support resources.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Trends towards server consolidation and decentralized employees can seriously impact WAN bandwidth. A typical CIFS file often requires hundreds of round trips between the file server and the user to complete a simple file request.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Siemens Enterprise Communications continues to lead the evolution of real-time unified communications by delivering innovative and customer-centric solutions with measurable financial benefits, and has proven both the technology and the savings for customers.

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

EZINE: Read how the rise of cloud computing and virtualization is creating new opportunities for the channel in WAN optimization, and find out what skill sets VARs need to target business people who rely on smart phones or iPads on the road.

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | Published: 10 Dec 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript discusses the importance of performance considerations when buying endpoint security suites. You’ll gain insight on how to improve the performance of security and configurations in order to keep downtime to an absolute minimum.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript of the video "Using VDI at a Branch Office" , featuring desktop virtualization experts Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, provides guidelines for extending central management to remote locations.

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Do more with less: that’s the message echoing through corporate cultures today. One clear target is to contain costs, especially travel-related costs, which can be large enough to have a serious impact on bottom lines. Read this paper to find out more.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within an ADN environment. It explores how to deliver superior application performance by using application-level insight to manage bandwidth demand, protect against malware and so much more.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP’s viability, regardless of which vendor’s IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Apposite's Linktropy WAN emulators simulate bandwidth, latency, jitter, loss, congestion, and other important link impairments to test applications in the lab and under a spectrum of real-world conditions. Through an intuitive, browser-based graphical interface, you can still install the Linktropy WAN emulator and begin testing within minutes.

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 09 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the first and only H.264 High Profile implementation for real-time video, customers can immediately begin saving on bandwidth costs—up to 50%! Read a technical overview of the H.264 High Profile standard, including the history of H.264 and the recent advancements to and benefits of the technology.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2010

TRIAL SOFTWARE: OpManager helps IT admins quickly identify & resolve network performance problems using built-in troubleshooting tools and provides a single console for monitoring servers (physical & virtual), applications, network devices, bandwidth, WAN links, VoIP etc.

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 | Premiered: 27 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the industry-standard protocol for establishing a secure communications link when transmitting information over untrusted networks. However, SSL can create complications when it comes to prioritizing, optimizing, and accelerating network traffic. This paper outlines a solid strategy for optimizing SSL applications.

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 | Published: 23 Jun 2010

DATA SHEET: CIFS performs poorly across WAN links due to higher latency. The solution to solve the CIFS problem is to apply several WAN optimization technologies working together to quickly and easily restore application performance, improve response time, and recover WAN bandwidth.

Posted: 12 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how VMware View 4 and virtual desktop storage options from NetApp deliver flexible, cost effective, secure virtual desktops. Enterprises can now deploy cost effective virtual desktop environments (over LAN or WAN) that meet the needs of a wide range of end users.

Posted: 06 May 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Voice and data on a single wire is an exciting network development. MPLS technology, which enables voice and data to be transported together on wide area networks (WANs), has matured to provide a platform for almost unimaginable communications and cloud computing possibilities. Learn more about MPLS by reading this white paper.

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 | Published: 26 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the fundamentals of Carrier Ethernet and examines how service profiles and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can be defined in Carrier Ethernet.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

EBOOK: This e-book presents healthcare specific networking issues such as the importance of networks within a hospital, wireless networking for life-critical networks, the future of health care networks, and more.

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 | Published: 18 Dec 2009

EBOOK: In the vast and complicated virtual desktop ecosystem, finding the right balance of protocols, bandwidth and third-party tools will make it a success in your data center.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 09 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Please review this presentation transcript featuring Andrew Burton, Editor of SearchDisasterRecovery.com, and Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group. The transcript documents their discussion about WAN clustering. Find out exactly what you need to set up a WAN cluster and what vendors offer WAN clustering support.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Learn more about WAN acceleration and optimization by reading this interview conducted by Chris Griffin, Assistant Editor for SearchDisasterRecovery.com. Here he asks Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, the questions your organization needs to know in order to increase the performance of its WAN.

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009