The company’s strategy centers on four “fundamental pillars,” made up of WAN optimization, application performance, network visibility, and with a caveat SD-WAN. The company’s new strategy centers on ...

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. For BlumShapiro CIO Mark Schwartz, WAN optimization means gaining visibility into the accounting firm’s network. Two years ago, ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

The worldwide market in infrastructure and services for wide area networks (WANs) will reach $8 billion in 2021, thanks in part to the embrace of software-defined (SD) networks, according to a new ...

Robin Layland, who has managed networks for American Express and Travelers Insurance, runs his own consulting business in West Hartford, Conn. Web applications, e-mail attachments and files can ...

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 ...

Riverbed Technology is adding SSL support to its Steelhead WAN optimization gear, making it possible to accelerate a potentially large volume of network traffic that the equipment couldn’t get at ...

Managed WAN optimization services, from such companies as AT&T, BT Global Services and Orange Business, provide an option for application performance improvements. A tech-support call starts it all.

Expand Networks is demonstrating wide-area network optimization over low-bandwidth, high-latency links at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this week during the 2008 ...

Wide Area Networks (WANs) have linked computer systems, devices and users for more than 40 years, enabling people to access and share files, e-mail and run applications. As WAN hardware and software ...

As businesses become globally distributed, business applications are more dependent on the WAN than ever before. While WAN capacity is abundant and inexpensive, negative characteristics of the WAN ...

Surprisingly, the answer to the title of this column might be, "No." That's the guidance we learned from Steve Schall, a principal product manager in the Citrix CloudBridge product group. Schall has ...