Improve Wan Optimization
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By Henze, John  Most enterprises are looking to save money and reduce the IT resources required at branch offices by centralizing applications, data storage and the backup infrastructure.
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Are you a Comcast customer? Your bandwidth hogging days may be limited.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The many new mechanisms to secure and speed up applications running on networks are heading for consolidation that should make it easier and less expensive to deliver the kind of performance end users want.
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By Kevin Smith, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif.  Jun. 13--MONROVIA, Calif. -- In the world of Internet data transfers,  speed is king.    Slow downloads can be both frustrating and costly for businesses that  want to remain efficient.
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Akamai and Coradiant have announced products that help businesses eliminate Internet-related application performance bottlenecks.
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The data center fabric will at a minimum bring together network, server, and storage administrators. Are you ready? Can you handle it?
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SAS, iSCSI and even InfiniBand offer alternative ways to connect servers to storage and are starting to steal some of Fibre Channel's thunder. But while they are, respectively, cheaper and faster than Fibre Channel for direct-attached storage, that doesn't mean the technology is doomed.
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Oracle Application Server 10g is an application platform suite that offers full support for J2EE, high-speed caching, rapid application development, enterprise portals, identity management, business intelligence, application and business integration
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Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. read more
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Safend, an international provider of endpoint i
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems is stepping up to the plate in the highly competitive application acceleration game, banking on technology and a lot of end-to-end network expertise to set it apart from other players. The company will announce on Tuesday that it is beefing up the WAFS (Wide-Area File Services) software it introduced last year so it can speed up application transactions and file transfers. It is also adding compression and other techniques so application traffic wonât take up so much network bandwidth, said Mark Weiner, director of marketing for application solutions at Cisco. Also this week, the company is set to roll out WAAS (Wide-Area Application Services) software, as well as more powerful versions of its WAE (Wide-Area Application Engine) appliances on which to run it. There will also be a WAAS module for Ciscoâs Integrated Services Router. Wide-area bandwidth is expensive, and software overhead can slow down applications even on a fat pipe. Wide-area file services allow companies to speed up the performance of those applications by caching copies of files locally and then managing updates and changes. Cisco competes with companies such as Juniper, which purchased WAFS vendor Peribit, and Riverbed, an application acceleration startup that enhanced its software and appliances last week and is aiming to go public. Cisco is late to the game with some of its new technology, but it can offer peace of mind by making the products work smoothly with a Cisco infrastructure, said Eric Siegel, an analyst at Burton Group. Pairing up Cisco gear worked well for the city of Fort Wayne, Ind., which wants to use WAAS to speed up communication with some of its fire stations, said CIO Clifford Clarke. WAAS seems to have performed better with Fort Wayneâs Cisco network than did other vendorsâ products, he said. Harold Hamm, vice president of IT at architecture firm Reynolds, Smith and Hills, said he couldnât buy the kind of WAN bandwidth heâd need to match his test results with the new gear. âOnce a big file gets cached on a local server, itâs like working on a LAN,â he said.
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A wave of low-priced SANs, many bundled with preconfigured switches and host bus adapters, is bringing easy-to-install storage that can cut management costs by up to 70% compared with the cost of storage directly attached to each server. But they're not for everyone.
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Increasing front-side bus speed from 800 to 1,066 MHz addresses crucial bottleneck in system performance.
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This paper introduces some techniques for making backups without needing to stop the business applications. It also describes ways to simplify and reduce the cost of system operations.
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Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?
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BCN Systems&#39; routing architecture will be used to to speed development of converged networks for data, voice, and video. By Networking Pipeline News.
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High Efficiency codec recommended to network, content providers