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Accelerating Virtualized Environments | 2008-04-16 | Riverbed |
| How do you make virtualization a reality for your enterprise without your users taking a performance hit? Start by downloading this white paper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to deal with the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. In this paper, see how this solution is now having tremendous success in enabling server virtualization and remote site consolidation.
Tags: LAN - WAN, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware |
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Datacraft Helps Federal Bank Go Nationwide | 2008-04-16 | Dimension Data |
| Federal Bank realized that one way it could stay efficient and competitive would be to share updated data across its nationwide locations. So, Federal Bank decided to link its nationwide locations on a Wide Area Network (WAN), and share data across systems. In 2000 Datacraft was the chosen as the implementation partner for Federal Bank's FEDWide project and was involved in the design and implementation in the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, i.e. the final phase, connecting 300 nationwide branches and offices. Datacraft connected the nationwide branches to the network via Cisco 1760 routers & RAD 64 Kbps Leased line Modems and equipped the Regional Offices with Cisco 3600 series routers and RAD 2 Mbps Leased Line modems.
Tags: LAN - WAN |
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Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization | 2009-03-13 | Riverbed |
| Did you know it's possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this white paper from Riverbed on cost-savings through WAN optimization, you'll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months through significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation. It's called Extreme Savings and it's only from Riverbed.
Tags: IT Infrastructure, Network Management, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting |
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Inter-site Ethernet: A guide to choosing your Ethernet service provider | 2008-04-15 | ntl:Telewest Business |
The market for Ethernet is continuing to grow, as UK organisations appreciate the cost savings, performance and efficiency gains to be made from deploying services based on this transport technology. Learn how your organisation can exploit the benefits offered by Ethernet and how to compare providers of this technology. Tags: LAN - WAN, LAN - WAN, LAN - WAN |
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F5 Networks Case Study: CitiStreet | 2008-04-03 | F5 Networks |
| CitiStreet, a Citigroup and State Street company and one of the largest global benefits delivery firms in the United States, needed to maximize the performance of its network in order to backup nine million employees' data over the WAN on a daily basis. As its existing T3 lines began to reach capacity, CitiStreet knew it had only two options: retool their infrastructure, including adding expensive additional bandwidth, or deploy WAN optimization and application acceleration technology to make the best use of what they already had. After evaluating competitive solutions, CitiStreet deployed F5's enterprise application delivery product, WANJet, as it was the only solution that combined the best aspects of WAN optimization, application acceleration, and encryption in one platform.
Tags: LAN - WAN |
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F5 Networks Case Study: Fulfillment Plus | 2008-04-03 | F5 Networks |
| Founded in 1996, Fulfillment Plus is a privately held integrated direct marketing services company with headquarters in Waltham, MA. The company needed to quickly improve the speed and capacity of its saturated VPN connection between two remote offices. The company installed WANJet, which increased application response times by over 400% and increased capacity by over 800%, enabling the company to utilize the existing link for at least another two years. FFP was able to save valuable dollars, avoid a costly network upgrade and also dramatically boost employee productivity.
Tags: Desktop Client OS |
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F5 Networks Case Study: Brown Shoe | 2008-04-03 | F5 Networks |
| Brown Shoe is a leading consumer-driven footwear company, operating nearly 1,300 retail shoe stores throughout the U.S. and Canada. The company was looking to implement a real-time disaster recovery strategy to enable their large number of retail stores to continue operation in the event of a data center failure. The company turned to WANJet to accelerate the AS/400 replication of data between its two data centers, while dramatically lowering bandwidth requirements. With WANJet increasing the bandwidth capacity by 1000%, the retailer was able to use a 7 Mbps link instead of upgrading to 90 Mbps, achieving a hard dollar ROI in less than three months.
Tags: Network Management, IT Budgeting |
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BurrellesLuce's Implementation of Expand Networks' RDP Compression Solution Drops Bandwidth Utilization From 90% to 40% | 2008-04-01 | Expand Networks |
| For over a century, BurrellesLuce has helped communication professionals maximize their media relations results through a full range of planning, monitoring and measurement services, all delivered through an easy-to-use portal. The company needed to find a solution that would optimize RDP sessions over the WAN and control bandwidth costs which were one of the most expensive components to the production environment. The challenge was to get bandwidth costs down and improve network performance. Along testing Expand as part of a complimentary 30 day proof of concept trial, BurrellesLuce, reviewed an exhaustive list of other providers including Juniper Networks, Silver Peak, Citrix and FatPipe. In the end, only Expand was able to deliver significant optimization results for RDP.
Tags: Network Management |
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Expand Networks Optimizes WAN Performance and Prioritizes Applications at VT Group | 2008-04-01 | Expand Networks |
| VT Group plc with origins in the late 19th Century is an international government support services company with its roots in shipbuilding. After a series of acquisitions, VT Group had outgrown its existing network infrastructure and needed to immediately resolve WAN performance issues at branch offices where it had implemented a combination of Citrix, Oracle and web based applications. VT chose Expand Networks' Compass platform to address current application performance issues and provide the flexibility to accommodate the organization's future technology requirements. Deployment of the Expand Compass platform was chosen to tackle the bandwidth and compression issues that VT had which has led to improved performance and acceleration of all its applications.
Tags: Network Management, Network Management |
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Expand Optimizes MPLS Network and Provides Foundation for Server Based Computing Project at Hill McGlynn | 2008-04-01 | Expand Networks |
| Hill McGlynn is one of the UK's leading construction recruitment specialists supply permanent and freelance construction personnel throughout the UK and overseas. Operating in an MPLS environment for WAN connectivity between its headquarters and 14 remote locations in the UK, Hill McGlynn initiated a server based computing project running Microsoft Terminal Services. As the business grew, these applications started to suffer from significant performance problems caused by latency, congestion and a lack of QoS which needed to be addressed. Following a recommendation from Softcat UK plc, a leading supplier of IT solutions to the UK Enterprise sector, Expand Networks' Compass was chosen as the unique platform to improve the performance of Terminal Services and optimize the MPLS network.
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