WHITE PAPER - This white paper looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within an ADN environment. It explores how important acceleration technologies such as bandwidth management, compression, protocol optimization, byte caching, and object caching can optimize key enterprise applications.
Posted: March 1, 2010 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Network Applications Software | Network Performance | WAN | Web Application Security

WHITE PAPER - Software developers write code to power applications that drive today's businesses. Whether you are looking at ubiquitous applications such as Microsoft Word or your own in-house software, chances are that they are not very WAN-friendly. The focus of this paper is to highlight the TCP protocol's shortcomings for WAN transmission purposes.
Posted: February 12, 2010 | Published: February 12, 2010


Topics:  Mobile Device Management | Mobile Workers | Remote Office Connectivity | Scripting | TCP | TCP/IP | WAN | WAN Hardware | Wireless Networks | Wireless Security

WHITE PAPER - The question of how to effectively back up data has been plaguing IT departments for years. This paper will examine the differences between the first and second generation disk-based backup systems.
Posted: February 11, 2010 | Published: February 11, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Management | Tape Backups | Vendors | WAN

WHITE PAPER - As enterprises embrace the distributed concept, the network can significantly limit the ability to capitalize on opportunities. By adopting a solution-based distributed enterprise approach, you can enable the network and its applications to support and accelerate business with a location-agnostic and cost-effective approach.
Posted: February 10, 2010 | Published: August 10, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Distributed Computing | Network Infrastructure | Network Performance | Networking | Remote Office Connectivity | Remote Offices | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn the complexity of managing WAN traffic is increasing, organizations need more capabilities for optimizing application performance than just WAN acceleration.
Posted: February 5, 2010 | Published: February 5, 2010


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Boards of Directors | Broadband Routers | Broadband Wireless Networks | Business Performance Management | CEOs | CFOs | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Network Performance | SLA | Telecommunications Regulations | WAN | WAN Hardware | WAN Switches | WAN Switching

WHITE PAPER - Media resources are software- or hardware-based components that perform processing on two or more connected media streams. Media Resource design is an important component of overall IP Telephony implementations and care must be taken to ensure that resources are available at the right locations for maximum link efficiency.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: January 25, 2010


Topics:  IP Networks | IP Switching | IP Telephony | IP VPN | Network Configuration Management | Networking | WAN | WAN Switching

WHITE PAPER - Windows Server® on WAAS is a jointly developed and supported program from Microsoft and Cisco to optimize branch IT service delivery. Windows Server on WAAS can increase branch employee productivity by delivering LANlike performance of centralized applications and increased efficiency and availability of local IT infrastructure services.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  IT Management | IT Managers | Remote Computing | Remote Network Management | Remote Offices | Server Hardware | WAN | Windows Server 2003

WHITE PAPER - This paper takes a look at some of the advantages of video conferencing in terms of both cost savings and time savings, explains some of the problems and challenges in making video conferencing work, and gives advice for making the network ready to accommodate video conferences.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | Videoconferences | WAN | Web Conferences

WHITE PAPER - According to a recent Nemertes study, a whopping 75% of companies polled indicate they're putting greater emphasis on video conferencing this year. This confirms our ever-growing trend towards the time- and cost-savings of video conferencing. To successfully deploy video conferencing services, avoid these eight common mistakes.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Teleconferences | Travel and Expense Management Software | Videoconferences | Videoconferencing Hardware | Videoconferencing Systems | WAN | WAN Switching

WHITE PAPER - Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Applications Management | Bandwidth Management | Network Appliances | Network Applications Software | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Synchronization | Server Consolidation | WAN | WAN Switching

WHITE PAPER - The goal of this white paper is to discuss the role of caching, describe in detail how object caching and byte caching works, and show how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.
Posted: June 29, 2009 | Published: December 17, 2007


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Bandwidth Management | Caching | Data Quality | Data Storage | Proxy Server Hardware | Proxy Server Software | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper reviews the best of the newest achievements in VSAT performance and utility and shows how these solutions could become part of the mainstream of corporate network deployment and an integral portion of commercial (and competitive) service provider offerings.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Applications Management | Caching | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Systems | Network Management | Network Performance | Satellite Communications Systems | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This document is intended to aid IT administrators and other stakeholders responsible for managing distributed SharePoint deployments, in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable and efficient replication strategy to optimize collaboration and increase productivity.
Posted: June 11, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | Data Mirroring | Data Replication | Distributed Computing | Distributed Data Management | Information Management | Storage Management | Storage Replication | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP's viability, regardless of which vendor's IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.
Posted: April 20, 2009 | Published: December 2, 2008


Topics:  Network Convergence | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Traffic Management | Voice Quality | VoIP | WAN | WAN Hardware