It has been a busy few weeks for WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors. Among the highlights is Afore Solutions' introduction of a network acceleration appliance designed to optimize ...

The last newsletter noted that Jim participated in a recent Network World chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. Today, we’ll continue that thread by discussing ...

Expand's portfolio of Accelerator appliances uses data-compression algorithms to boost WAN capacity without requiring bandwidth increases. The vendor's new ...

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 ...

An innocent change to an AutoCAD file format has cut sharply into the ability of some WAN acceleration solutions to speed the transfer of these files, and caused grumblings in some widely distributed ...

We're trying to implement some WAN acceleration devices but we're running into a snag with it being unable to optimize WAN RPC traffic, like AD replication and Exchange MAPI connections. The issue ...

Glen Dalgleish, vice president of infrastructure services at global perfumer Coty Inc., well remembers why he and his staff had implemented WAN acceleration technology last January: to improve ...

Depending on the WAN link and the data, RiOS 6 slashes transfer times from hours to minutes and minutes to seconds The latest release from Riverbed, RiOS 6, continues to define what a WAN optimization ...

Looking for some specifics on ORCL data guard, specifically with reference to latency and WAN acceleration. Oracle themselves are suggesting that in any application with over 30ms latency, it's not ...

Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator ...

Microsoft Corp. and Packeteer Inc. last week jointly announced a branch office appliance designed to provide WAN throughput optimization capabilities in tandem with native Windows applications. With ...