Where does WAN optimization and application acceleration come together with virtualization and cloud computing? Right here.
Aug 24, 2010
Jim Metzler’s SearchEnterpriseWAN evaluation of Certeon aCelera
“…aCelera performance can be tailored to the topology, environment and performance requirements of both data centers and branches; is 64-bit; and takes advantage of the benefits of virtualization, ranging from system monitoring to high availability and distributed resource scheduling.”
“Important synergies exist among virtual servers, virtual desktops and virtual appliances such as a WOC or a performance monitoring solution. Perhaps the most important synergy is that virtual appliances are of particular interest to IT organizations when server virtualization technology has already been disseminated to branch offices and has also been implemented in the data center”.
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Check out the Jim’s article Virtual appliances WOC software needed in both datacenter and branch. on SearchNetworking
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.
Oct 26, 2009
Not to pile – on but the news of a vendor suing Gartner based on the results of a Magic Quadrant (MQ) ranking caused us (and likely a lot of you) to think about just what the MQ means for the WAN application acceleration market. We also found ourselves discussing whether or not the MQ as it exists today is pertinent, viable, targeted, and effective for WAN application acceleration purchasers. A lot of heated discussion ensued. We found ourselves discovering shreds of doubt about the MQ and coming up with a few tweaks that we felt would make the MQ more requirements-based than the opinions-based version that it is today.
First the definitions – Gartner defines the WAN application acceleration market and vendors in this category as WAN Optimization Controller (WOC) vendors. According to Gartner the goal of any MQ is to “predict the viability of a product or solution to the global enterprise.” Gartner analysts measure vendors across two vectors: Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. According to Gartner:
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