Team Think
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Blue Coat Optimizes Encrypted Flash Video
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. continued to advance its video delivery message by adding the ability to scale and optimize encrypted Adobe Flash video to its Mach5 appliance.
The addition of optimization for RTMPe and RTMPte encrypted Flash expands the MACH5 capabilities to optimize video used by providers for maintaining end-user digital rights management (DRM). This will be [...] -
Riverbed Granite: Enterprise Riches or Fool's Gold?
Riverbed delivers a hardware refresh and a bold new direction. But the continued use of proprietary appliances and the blurring of the lines between IT and storage silos will make adopting the technology very difficult for IT.
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Gartner Adds Silver Peak, Drops Cisco As Leader in WOC Magic Quadrant
Cisco was dropped from the Leader quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant on WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCs ) while Silver Peak was added to the prestigious list.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant is one of the more thorough, independent analyses in the WAN optimization market today. It evaluates the top vendors in a segment across 15 areas mapped along [...] -
The Rise of WAN Optimization Part II
Part of the challenge in optimizing applications is knowing where to begin. Lori MacVittie would like to have us believe that the right approach is to deploy a holistic application delivery solution to address the entire problem. As I point out here, such an approach demonstrates a misunderstanding of the value of WAN optimization [...]
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Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
In an odd turn of events, some of the most vocal anti-tunneling companies are now advocating the use of tunnels again. At the beginning of the month, application acceleration vendor Riverbed added UDP tunneling in the newest releases of its RiOS 7.0 operating system. This comes at a time when Cisco’s Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), [...]
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Tricks and Traps in Assessing IT Equipment Value
InfoTech Research Group recently completed a survey where it evaluated the value provided by WAN optimization vendors, which provides insights in what to do - and not to do - when identifying the value of networking equipment.
As a veteran of the speed-and-feed wars of networking gear, I was happy to see that InfoTech put its [...] -
Packet Loss Meets 2012
What would happen if we couldn’t agree on the same time? Team meetings would never start on time. You might go catch a movie only to find it was over an hour earlier. Nothing would get done and the functioning of our society would grind to a halt.
A frightening picture that is more [...] -
Building the Intelligent Optimization Layer - Everywhere
In another life and another time, I ran the network testing program at PC Magazine. Back then, Mag (as it was called) evaluated application and device performance primarily on 10Mbps (gasp) or later a 100Mbps Ethernet link — pretty much the state of the art then. Today, local application performance still holds some interest, but [...]
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Google+ on your Network? Not quite so fast.
As partners listened to Microsoft’ spiel at Microsoft WPC today, they may ask themselves the same question that any Google follower should be asking as well – with all of this talk about video, how is your network possibly going to keep up?
From Google+ to Lync to Facebook, application developers are rushing to [...]
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Croslin II: The Real Value Innovation Management Platforms Offer Your Company
Last week we heard from innovation veteran David Croslin and author of Innovate the Future: A Radical New Approach to IT Innovation, about some of his thoughts separating innovation from invention and pitfalls facing organizations when they institute innovation programs.
One of the items Croslin touched on as we were speaking was the real value behind innovation [...]
