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Riverbed wins 7-vendor WAN optimization test
As applications move to the cloud, network managers are seeing increasing requirements to optimize and manage WAN connections. Most enterprises have...
Stealthy startup at root of Riverbed brain drain
Network management and WAN optimization vendor Riverbed Technologies has had a pretty successful year, in some respects – the company finalized a...
What to look for in converged infrastructure for branch offices
Many organizations have been consolidating data center resources to drive efficiency and save money, and some are now poised to continue that push in...
How to put new WAN Optimization form factors, QoS and Path Selection to work
WAN optimization solutions are combining tried-and-true techniques with emerging deployment, QoS and path selection techniques to meet the demands of...
Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands
Facebook's head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial...
ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence
Jesse Rothstein, who was the lead architect of F5's flagship product line, founded ExtraHop in 2007 to develop products to derive IT operations...
Free open-source SDN app will analyze your network's complexity
Enterprise infrastructure company Infoblox announced this week that it plans to release a free and open-source software tool called Tapestry aimed at...
Apple iOS 7 surprises as first with new multipath TCP connections
Apple's iOS 7 is the first large-scale use of a newly-minted Internet protocol, called multipath TCP. It lets computers send and receive data across...
Cisco one of investors in log management startup Loggly
Log monitoring platform company Loggly today announced that it has acquired more than $10 million in venture capital funding, and that one of its new...
Report: Application delivery controller sales up, but WAN optimization slipping
A report on data center networking equipment says that sales of WAN optimization gear fell in the second quarter, but application delivery...
Verizon Wireless buyout drive is all about the dollar signs
The price Verizon might pay to buy out its mobile subsidiary, reportedly US$100 billion or more, is the most important thing that mobile users need...
ADC: It's a platform, not a product
It was a decade ago, in 2003, when Gartner first defined the application delivery controller (ADC). At that time, ADC was little more than the...
VMware adds networking, storage to its virtual data center stack
At the kick-off of its annual VMworld user conference, being held this week in San Francisco, VMware will fill in more layers of its software stack...
You can't make it run better if you don't know where the problem lies
Riverbed Technology is best known for its WAN optimization tools, but the company has branched out over the years through multiple acquisitions....
Ciena, NRENs to test OpenFlow SDN WAN
Ciena this week said it is partnering with a handful of research networks to test a multilayer, software-defined WAN.
Silver Peak weans WAN optimization customers off hardware with virtualization pitch
WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak apparently sees the writing on the data center’s walls, announcing a new program today that offers a free upgrade...
Cloud computing swallowing up branch office hardware
The popularization of cloud computing and ubiquitous access to high-speed Internet connectivity mean that the days of the specialized branch office...
Buyback program intensifies Aryaka/Riverbed rivalry
WAN optimization-as-a-service provider Aryaka has announced an aggressive buyback program that targets competitor Riverbed's customers, adding a new...
Vodafone offers €7.7 billion for Kabel Deutschland in fixed network push
Vodafone plans to acquire Germany's largest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland, for a!7.7 billion (US$10.1 billion) as it looks to become more...
Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering...
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