Where does WAN optimization and application acceleration come together with virtualization and cloud computing? Right here.
Apr 13, 2010
We read with great interest this article on NetworkWorld.com by Jim Metzler which looks at the WAN virtual appliance market over the next 12 – 18 months. We are always very interested in analyst projections, industry influencers’ opinions, bloggers writings, venture capital investments, public market reactions for the WAN virtual appliance market. In particular, this Network World article takes a look at what we consider the basis for our blog – do businesses want to base their branch office IT operations on a server or on a virtual appliance?
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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:
- ISV’s can package their existing product as a virtual appliance. Packaging as a virtual appliance can simplify the delivery and deployment process (think cloud). And some applications may even run better in a virtualized environment.
- Use application infrastructure virtual appliances to reduce development time, efforts, costs.
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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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Nov 09, 2009
A recent article in Business Management magazine by Certeon CTO Donato Buccella, “Maximizing WAN Optimization,” takes a look at the major trends that are driving the evolution of WAN optimization technologies, specifically the delivery and deployment of centralized services via cloud computing. Buccella states that virtualization and cloud computing are driving more traffic over the WAN in order to allow remote workers to access centralized corporate services such as applications, servers, storage and management systems.
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