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WAN optimization market shakeup predicted

Posted January 19, 2012 - 12:26 pm

WAN optimization is shaping up to be one of the hottest areas of the network equipment market, prompting industry experts to predict high-profile acquisitions and vendor shakeups in the near future.
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WAN optimization: Network vs. application layer optimization

Posted December 5, 2011 - 6:31 pm

The application layer of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) stack has long been regarded as a focal point for wide area network (WAN) optimization. Efforts to optimize application delivery were centered here because the pain was rooted in optimizing only a handful of specific applications at branch or remote offices.
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Silver Peak unveils multi-gigabit WAN optimization appliance

Posted June 6, 2011 - 5:04 am

Silver Peak today announced the release of its fastest WAN optimization appliance, which offers up to 2.5Gbit/sec of bandwidth for disaster recovery as well as cloud and virtual environments.
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Silver Peak further reduces WAN traffic

Posted December 8, 2010 - 10:04 pm

Silver Peak's upgraded WAN optimization software includes a high-speed virtual appliance for data centers and enables a dramatic reduction in the amount of traffic crossing WAN links.
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Ipanema attacks the North American WAN optimization market

Posted November 22, 2010 - 11:30 am

Ipanema Technologies is 11 years old and mainly does business in Europe, but the French company is making a push into the United States hoping to land major carriers and enterprises as customers of its WAN optimization gear.
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Start-up Aryaka launches WAN optimization service

Posted September 22, 2010 - 12:26 pm

Start-up Aryaka offers an optimized WAN service designed as an alternative to hardware and software optimization gear sold by Blue Coat, Cisco and Riverbed.
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Start-up unveils SAN-to-cloud optimizer appliance

Posted September 20, 2010 - 10:26 am

Cirtas Systems announced its first product, a WAN accelerator that also acts as a local data cache with multiple tiers of storage, ranging from DRAM and SSDs to data replication to cloud-based storage services.
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Riverbed readies cloud, mobility and virtualization rollout

Posted August 9, 2010 - 3:22 pm

Riverbed has products on tap that will enable WAN optimization as a cloud service, speed up the boot time for remote virtual desktops and, perhaps in a year or two, a software client that will speed up the performance of handhelds and smartphones.
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Users find the secrets of WAN optimization

Posted June 3, 2010 - 1:13 pm

WAN optimization offers better application performance, cost savings and reduced bandwidth needs, but the business reasons to buy may vary.
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Review: Riverbed Steelhead rules the WAN

Posted May 5, 2010 - 10:49 am

Riverbed's RiOS 6 continues the tradition of WAN performance gains while improving flexibility, ease, and application support
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F5 steers WAN optimization to virtual, cloud environments

Posted April 26, 2010 - 12:44 pm

F5 is announcing at Interop an enterprise cloud architecture that incorporates its existing load load balancing, WAN optimization and security products with new ones to address the requirements of virtualized environments.
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Why IT pros like their favorite gear

Posted February 22, 2010 - 9:04 am

IT professionals share their love for products that can automate manual processes, improve visibility and management, and speed performance for users.
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Riverbed releases gigabit-speed WAN optimizer

Posted February 10, 2010 - 10:59 am

Riverbed Technology announced new models of its network accelerator appliance, increasing the throughput for on-site and off-site backups to 1Gbit/sec.
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