| Silver Peak ups WAN acceleration ante Silver Peak last week rolled out what it claims to be the first Gigabit WAN acceleration product, the NX-9000. EMC's Tucci speaks out EMC CEO Joe Tucci last week spoke out on a number of topics at a meeting of institutional investors for EMC. Silver Peak strikes 1Gbps Data-intensive processes such as SAN replication and remote office backups can take a big toll on WAN performance. To help weather the surge, Silver Peak Systems' new high-end WAN optimization appliance, unveiled this ... EMC looks to build strength through acquisitions EMC is on the lookout for acquisitions but only wants to buy companies that will help solidify its existing business rather than acquiring companies that push EMC into new markets, the storage vendor's top executive ... Getting the most from big pipes I’ve written a lot lately about integrated devices and the trend to bundle multiple traffic management, security and routing capabilities in a single appliance to help combat branch office clutter. Catching up with Silver Peak Systems Network choices have changed considerably since the days when private leased lines were the predominant option for business connectivity. The availability of MPLS services and Internet-based VPNs has enabled enterprises ... Outing blind spots in the virtual realm Virtual servers help data centers provide more resources on demand, but they also create a bit of a blind spot for IT managers responsible for network and application performance across the virtual environment. Virtualization drives management software upgrades You could name any three management vendors and chances are they'd all be adding support for virtual systems. Yet it may be more difficult to find three that are coupling their virtualization monitoring capabilities with advanced analytics. That’s the common thread tying Configuresoft, EMC and Netuitive together this week. U.S. isn't falling behind in broadband James Lakely of The Heartland Institute, a think tank promoting public policy based on individual liberty, limited government and free markets, argues that the broadband stimulus bill would spend billions of tax dollars on a problem that doesn't exist. Are SLAs worthwhile? In the last newsletter we stated our belief that IT organizations should establish SLAs for a handful of key applications and services. We did this because we believe that an IT organization is more likely to be successful if it has these SLAs. Of course, success is not automatic. The need to focus Application delivery is a very complex task in part because most users access applications over the WAN and the WAN introduces varying levels of delay, packet loss and jitter. In addition, it is common for a Fortune 500 company to have hundreds, or possibly thousands of applications running on hundreds of servers that reside in multiple data centers interconnected by WAN links. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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