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Anagran appoints new CEO: The month of November is flying by, but before it closes I wanted to catch up on some news in the world of network optimization. For starters,...

Templates for NetScaler devices speed securing Web apps: Citrix is making it easier to configure its NetScaler Web accelerator appliance for specific applications with configuration templates and a tool for...

OPNET, Riverbed share a box: As businesses become more distributed and the number of branch offices climbs, enterprise IT teams are becoming keen on reducing the number of...

Wireless LAN Virtualization: Twice the Network at Half the Cost WHITEPAPER: With 802.11n, wireless networks now provide faster connectivity than wired Ethernet, but not the certainty or predictability that enterprises...

Who's making sure apps perform well?: Delivering applications out to branch offices and virtual workers isn't as easy as it sounds. There are many moving parts that require focus and...

Making Your WAN a Fast Lane: One Company's Story: As associate director at Linklaters, David Bennett is responsible for the WAN and reports into the CIO as the head of (ISS) Information Systems and...

Application Delivery Controllers: Build, buy, or both?: In a recent newsletter we discussed the 2008 Application Delivery Challenge. Since the challenge contains responses from two equipment providers and...

Building the Cast for an Environmentally Sustainable Networking Strategy Whitepaper Campaign WHITEPAPER: Green IT initiatives haven't extended much beyond servers and datacenters, but IDC says the second wave of environmentally sustainable IT trends is...

Blue Coat plugs into PacketShaper: Blue Coat Systems this week announced a tool designed to open the lines of communication between its home-grown ProxySG appliances and the...

Blue Coat plugs into Packeteer appliance: Blue Coat Systems has released a software plug-in that allows the security and WAN acceleration provider to use one the most important bits of...

Akamai puts configuration control in users' hands: Akamai Technologies unveiled a tool this week that aims to take away some of the pain associated with configuring application-specific acceleration...

An Integrated Solution for IP Address Management WHITEPAPER: Get the facts on the ever evolving issues around IP Address Management. In this whitepaper learn about lowering costs, reducing help desk calls,...

How smart spending can bolster WAN application delivery: It might surprise readers to learn the companies most successful at WAN application delivery don't necessarily spend a whole lot more money than...

The next WAN challenge: Managing IP telephony: Back in the "good old days" managing telephony as a part of the WAN was pretty simple. Traditional telephony used dedicated bandwidth, and the major...

Best practices for speeding WAN application delivery: The message is sinking in: Adding bandwidth isn't a cure-all for application performance problems.

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