WAN optimization technology makes more efficient use of wide area links to the point that businesses can actually reduce bandwidth or at least put off the need to buy more. Gartner says to expect the ...

Last time we began our discussion of colocation and how it relates to the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. This time, we’ll look further into the benefits that colo facilities can ...

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) are an attractive move for many service providers and enterprises because it allows for individual wide ...

It's clear the WAN optimization market is no longer a niche play. According to Gartner, WAN optimization is expected to grow from the $700 million market it was in 2006 to a $1.9 billion market in ...

WAN optimization in a large enterprise is a nascent and headline-grabbing market. Still, IT managers are faced with the burning question: Is it really worth the investment? The technology uses ...

A survey of IT and networking professionals has found that almost all (97%) of them feel that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to drive automation in software-defined ...

In an effort to fill a gap in its product line, Silver Peak is launching the NX-5500, which supports 50 Mbps of WAN capacity. Until now, the vendor’s application acceleration appliance line ...

As associate director at Linklaters LLP, David Bennett is responsible for the WAN and reports into the CIO as the head of information systems and strategy (ISS) development. He shared a case study of ...

Version 1.0 of the software client brings huge performance gains to CIFS file transfers, though HTTPS and NFS are not supported; Version 4.1 of the site-to-site solution shows overall performance ...

Teridion is a company that uses SDN as an overlay on top of other carriers’ networks to optimize the flow of traffic. And Citrix offers SD-WAN. Now the two companies are working together to combine ...