When I asked WAN optimization veterans to weigh in on what they think will be the biggest technology and industry trends to watch during the year ahead, the economy (not surprisingly) played a part in ...

Performance-management technologies are becoming the add-on of choice for many optimization vendors looking to maximize the functions of their appliances. Coupling management capabilities and ...

In addition, Juniper launched a new high-end router for large enterprises and service providers. The new products come as Juniper is working to build up its channel business in the data center space, ...

It's clear the WAN optimization market is no longer a niche play. According to Gartner, WAN optimization is expected to grow from the $700 million market it was in 2006 to a $1.9 billion market in ...

SYDNEY '” Aug. 30, 2011'”Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, today extended the industry's most convenient and low-cost options for deploying WAN ...

WAN optimization in a large enterprise is a nascent and headline-grabbing market. Still, IT managers are faced with the burning question: Is it really worth the investment? The technology uses ...

As the enterprise becomes more dispersed and applications continue to greedily gobble up precious WAN bandwidth, IT struggles to find ways to coax just a little more performance out of its existing ...

Riverbed will sell Microsoft’s Windows Server bundled with its WAN optimization devices as a way to simplify purchasing for its customers. The server will run on the Riverbed Service Platform (RSP), a ...

Networking manufacturer Lanner and managed service provider GTT this week announced new SD-WAN capabilities leveraging universal customer premises equipment (uCPE). Lanner, one of several ...

Companies that make baggage-handling systems can have just as much trouble as your average traveler when it comes to getting something to its destination, even when it’s data. That’s why G&T Conveyor ...

Another company in the group I work for is considering getting steelhead WAN optimizers/accelerators. Frankly it sounds like a few useful things (particularly samba optimization) combined with ...

Egypt’s Mantrac Group has deployed Riverbed’s Steelhead WAN optimization appliances across eleven locations cutting bandwidth costs by 75%, the company reports. Mantrac Group, an authorized dealer for ...