Where does WAN optimization and application acceleration come together with virtualization and cloud computing? Right here.
Jul 14, 2010
IT organizations have embraced server virtualization to reduce costs and to dynamically provision and move virtual machines among physical servers. IT organizations have also adopted desktop virtualization for cost reduction and to improve application security and regulatory compliance.
However, both server and desktop virtualization introduce new challenges related to management, visibility, and maintaining acceptable application performance across the wide area network (WAN).
Both types of virtualization are synergistic with virtualized appliances. Dr. Jim Metzler and Webtorials have looked at the relationship among server and desktop virtualization and virtual appliances in the recently published whitepaper, Virtualization: Benefits, Challenges and Solutions. This white paper explores how virtualized appliances can fully leverage server virtualization at branch offices and data centers. Additionally, the whitepaper covers the compelling advantages of virtualized appliances including the costs savings compared to hardware-based appliances and how virtual appliance can leverage hypervisor management systems for high availability.
Download this white paper from White Paper Resource Center
Apr 21, 2010
As cloud computing rages on in popularity, hype, and maybe even implementations we are left to wonder if we could use a technology version of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to define cloud computing realities versus those just blowing smoke?
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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.
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 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.
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.
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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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Nov 25, 2009
It is the time of year for reflection and thanks. This article on CTOEdge kicked off the period of reflection for us. We agree with a number of the author’s technologies to be thankful for in 2009, including:
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Oct 08, 2009
During normal business operations, or in the event of a disaster or even a business anomaly, which requires data recovery, WAN performance and disaster recovery tend to go hand-in-hand. The key to a successful recovery is the backup and restore. The backup and restore exercise is generally measured by two major factors: speed and cost. How you manage the recovery process, implement the backup and ensure business continuity will be judged by how long the recovery took and how much it cost.
In our first blog article we talked a lot about WAN performance and disaster recovery. It is one of the focus areas for our blog and something we think about a lot these days. Also in that first blog, we mentioned that we’d bring together here Certeon news and events as well as “industry subject matter experts and analysts.” Well, as we wouldn’t want to disappoint early on… Shawn Cooney, co-founder of Certeon, and Deni Connor, senior analyst from Storage Strategies Group just held a webcast, Accelerating Backup with WAN Optimization Virtual Appliances, that discusses bringing data recovery, WAN optimization, and virtualization together.
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