Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals

Introduction

IT organizations face a number of increasing pressures to increase productivity, improve application performance, provide infrastructure conducive to global collaboration, improve posture toward data protection and compliance, and minimize costs across the board. These pressures come largely as a result of initiatives to increase availability and resiliency in times of an “always on” business driven by the Internet, natural disasters, acts of war, and increasing competition. The challenge is that the corporate workforce continues to become more global, and the characteristics of WANs are dramatically different from those of LANs. Simply consolidating infrastructure provides better support for global collaboration, cost reduction, ...