LAN/WAN White Papers

Eliminating the Need for WAN Acceleration Using the Cloud

Data is an organization's most important asset and the ability to provide access where and when it is needed is vital to the success of every company.

Download this white paper to learn about how the cloud is an exciting new alternative to traditional WAN acceleration. Specifically:
- WAN acceleration - the good and the bad
- The cloud as the new data center
- How Storage Infrastructure as a Service changes everything

Does the idea of ditching your WAN accelerators (and accompanying headaches) sound intriguing? Download this white paper to learn more!

Sponsor: Nasuni Corp

Getting Ahead Managing VoIP and Videoconferencing

Can the move to UC be just another simple technology transition? End users expect these technologies to look, act and behave just as their non-IP predecessors. But for IT teams it brings very real, new requirements. Learn VoIP and video success strategies from Jim Frey, an Enterprise Management Associates analyst.

Sponsor: Network Instruments

Four Little-Known Ways WAN Optimization Can Benefit Your Organization

You know that WAN optimization has evolved into a complete system that optimizes traffic across the broad range of most popular applications while providing deep visibility into performance. But did you know that it's a great tool to consolidate data centers and branch services? And that WAN optimization providers are evolving solutions that drive greater IT performance for any environment?

Read this white paper to learn how far WAN optimization has come, and how to make this most of your investments by using it to improve mobility, cloud and virtualization, disaster recovery, VDI, branch office consolidation, and more

Sponsor: Riverbed

How WAN Optimization Can Drive Top-Line Revenue

A convergence of trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. These potentially conflicting trends are putting a strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures.

Sponsor: Riverbed

How WAN Optimization Helps Enterprises Reduce Costs

In a recent Gartner survey of IT organizations, respondents cited data growth, system performance, and network congestion as their top three barriers to productivity. Because productivity enhances revenue, businesses are investing in technologies that boost it. But if it all relies on a network that is being deluged with data, how can IT professionals side-step these issues to increase productivity and reduce costs? Learn more.

Sponsor: Riverbed

Ready to Roam

A network infrastructure overhaul gives a Michigan school district the flexibility needed to achieve its long-term teaching and learning goals.

Sponsor: CDW

Foundation for the Future

West Islip New York Public Schools' network and connectivity upgrade offers benefits in the classroom and beyond.

Sponsor: CDW

The High-Performance WAN

Wide area networks (WANs) are critical to the fabric underlying all business-critical applications, whether in organizational data centers or spread out to the cloud. But for large, distributed entities, maintaining network links to each branch office can be costly. WAN optimization and acceleration is not as simple as boosting the bandwidth in a slow office or dropping a single device into the network. Find out what are some of the top problems associated with large WANs and the technologies typically used to solve them.

Sponsor: CDW

Rules of Citizen Engagement: To Protect and Serve Data

Government agencies have many of the same business imperatives that their IT counterparts have in the private sector. Similar pressure exists across common areas like networking in the data center, unified communications, mobility and security.

Sponsor: CDW

Cloud Performance Hinges on Virtual WAN Acceleration

WAN Acceleration Lifts Cloud Performance

Enterprises are relying on WANs to carry more data than ever. With cloud computing on the rise, it's important for IT professionals to boost application performance across the WAN. Instead of deploying a WAN acceleration device, a better approach is to use virtual WAN acceleration software that can be downloaded to run on a virtualized server.

Sponsor: Silver Peak Systems