Silver Peak today introduced free, downloadable low-end WAN acceleration software that can turn two x86 servers into data replication devices. The company also announced an updated version of its ...

Software that speeds up transmission in a wide area network. Various techniques are used including compression and the application of quality of service (QoS) parameters to packets. If an application ...

Silver Peak has launched what it claimed is the biggest WAN accelerator ever — a box able to optimize, de-duplicate, compress, and encrypt 1Gbps of WAN traffic. Called the NX-9000, it’s also the first ...

Remote offices are an essential part of most business organizations, but the management and protection of remote data can be problematic for storage administrators. Traditionally, remote offices force ...

IT departments are trying to enable employees to work productively wherever they need to. But being productive requires access to more than just e-mail. Employees today expect to be able to work ...

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As a reporter at Network World and now as author of this newsletter, I’ve had many opportunities to talk with analysts and vendors about what drives technology adoption. I’ve also been lucky enough to ...

Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator ...

Riverbed is the San Francisco-based developer of the Steelhead family of appliances designed to accelerate application performance across wide area networks (WANs). Riverbed's Steelhead WAN ...

Expand Networks Inc. yesterday announced a traffic management system for its Accelerator Wide Area Network bandwidth optimization tool. The management system, ExpandView, will be generally available ...

Cisco's new Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) lineup adds application acceleration and optimization to its existing Wide Area File Services capabilities, said Mark Weiner, director of marketing ...