Where does WAN optimization and application acceleration come together with virtualization and cloud computing? Right here.
Mar 08, 2010
Why does being virtual really matter in application delivery within the cloud and across the WAN? Well, as this article on PCQuest.com points out, it’s faster and more cost effective. Or, as the author so succinctly puts it, “Another fairly common, though expensive, solution is to place pairs of special dedicated (hardware) appliances along the transport path to boost or improve throughput.”
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Mar 02, 2010
Critical to lowering costs and increasing the efficiency of remote software development environments is a high performance wide area network (WAN) infrastructure. Software configuration management (SCM) solutions are commonly accessed over the WAN , as well as via private, public, or hybrid cloud environments where remote developers can experience performance degradation due to high latency, resulting in lost productivity and higher development costs. This webcast discusses these issues in accessing IBM Rational TeamConcert over the WAN alon with some innovative solutions. Register today.
Mar 02, 2010
We read with great interest this blog entry from DoubleCloud entitled, “Why Should ISVs Care About Virtual Appliances, A Personal Testimonial.” The author points out two main ways in which ISVs can leverage virtual appliances:
Feb 25, 2010
Our good friends over at Redmondmag.com have an interesting in-depth article on “Building a Private Cloud.” This article is written by what we would call a “super-techie”; Eric Beehler has more certifications and random letter combinations after his name than your average technical guru – this guy knows of what he speaks.
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Feb 18, 2010
This article on SearchEnterpriseWAN.com provides an important review of the factors, drivers and evaluations of vendor choices in the WAN optimization controllers (WOC) market. Dr. Jim Metzler of Ashton Metzler and Associates produced the guide.
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Feb 02, 2010
Jim Metzler and Steve Taylor introduced the concept of Application Delivery 2.0, a major component of which is cloud computing. As noted in one of Jim’s recent reports on cloud computing, the goal of cloud computing is a significant improvement in the cost effective, elastic provisioning of IT services.
Jan 15, 2010
Bojan Simic has written an interesting piece on how only a few of these vendors are actually offering management products that are based on virtualization technology or using SaaS as a delivery method. Bojan legitimately asks the question: If organizations can achieve significant business benefits from virtualization and the Cloud when managing their computing resources, can they achieve similar benefits from using these technologies for managing the performance of IT and business services?
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Dec 16, 2009
We stumbled upon an interesting article that was written earlier this year entitled the Hidden Cost of the Cloud which outlines the uplift in network bandwidth charges that could be incurred if you used a cloud platform, such as Microsoft’s Windows Azure, Amazon or Rackspace, to host your applications and/or data. Now we’re not making any value judgments around the author’s recommendation to “leave the cloud and buy your own bandwidth to the Internet –- you’ll probably save 50 percent of your monthly bandwidth charges”; however, we do know a thing or two about saving on the amount of network bandwidth that enterprises consume by deploying virtualized WAN optimization.
Dec 10, 2009
An interesting use case for WAN optimization virtual appliances came across the wire lately. Intergence, a global professional services provider, is using software virtual appliances to not only deliver integrated virtualized solutions to its customers, but also has deployed WAN optimization virtual appliances as part of its IT infrastructure which is delivered through a managed services provider.
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