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A Wide Area Network or WAN is a computer network covering a broad geographical area. Contrast with personal area networks (PANs), local area networks (LANs) or metropolitan area networks (MANs) that are usually limited to a room, building or campus. The largest and most well-known example of a WAN is the Internet. WANs are used to connect local area networks (LANs) together, so that users and computers in one location can communicate with users and computers in other locations.
 
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Managing the WAN's Migration from Plumbing to Platform

By : CA NVM Published Date: Apr 10, 2008
Today, WAN design has two distinct goals. One goal is to ensure that the WAN continues to exhibit utility-like characteristics. The other goal is to ensure that the WAN can also support the key business and application trends by adding sophisticated WAN functionality. This white paper will describe some of the key business, application and network trends in general, and will also discuss how these trends impact certain key industries.
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CA NVM

Guide: WAN Optimization Vendor Selection

By : Shunra Published Date: Feb 07, 2007
"Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI" includes best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions, and offers a metric that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest value.
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Shunra

Test Your Enterprise SOA Apps Before Rollout

By : Shunra Published Date: Oct 30, 2007
How SAP uses Shunra VE to keep production problems at bay with pre-production testing on the virtual WAN.  These testing approaches and methodologies  reached far beyond conventional application testing and have become the preferred approach to ensure success. SAP does it, so should you!
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Shunra

Finance and IT’s Views on the Cost of Mobile Working

By : Fiberlink Published Date: Oct 12, 2005
This research study, led by CFO Research in collaboration with Fiberlink provides valuable insight into how organizations are dealing with sustained growth in the number of mobile workers and the costs associated with managing them.
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Fiberlink

Forrester Consulting - Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World

By : Riverbed Published Date: Oct 23, 2007
Are your workers going increasingly mobile? Don’t wait for their calls to slam Support when they experience poor application performance on the road. Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance, room for new applications, and the ability to ensure end user productivity at all times.
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Riverbed

From Problems to Ideas through to Innovation

By : Quocirca Published Date: Nov 04, 2008
Unsurprisingly, research shows that the majority of organizations see their future predicated on how well they can innovate. However, just throwing IT technology at issues in the hope that innovation will happen is not viable. Ideas are ephemeral and are easily crushed within the wrong environment. Creating a suitable culture, allied with a well implemented ideas management approach combined with strong leadership, is required.
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Quocirca

GlobalSCAPE WAFS Passes the Test at PHR+A

By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 02, 2008
Patton Harris and Rust and Associates has 13 branches.  Management and IT needed a way to help these offices work on projects together to optimize company resources.  Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS gave PHR+A fast file access across branches using minimal system resources. No management is required as it operates in the background and real time byte level differencing not only reduces bandwidth usage and spikes but also the changes are sent as they happen – not when they are needed.

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GlobalSCAPE

GlobalSCAPE WAFS Helps Fill the Pipeline at Jordan and Skala Engineers

By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 02, 2008
Jordan & Skala Engineers is a growing company with 5 offices.  It needed a scalable solution to optimize their network and their resources as more and more work was distributed across sites. Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS files mirror instantly in real time using byte-level differencing.  So as soon as a file is saved or closed, the file deltas appear in every other location on the network. Users are never waiting for files to upload, download, or open across a network.
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GlobalSCAPE

Gartner DCMA Report

By : Riverbed Published Date: Jan 31, 2008
This report examines how the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) solved application performance issues resulting from server consolidation. As a result of implementing an IT consolidation solution that goes beyond costly bandwidth upgrades to WAN optimization, the DCMA was able to improve application performance and overall user satisfaction. Get this report now.
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Riverbed

Is Voice Over WLAN Ready for the Enterprise?

By : Meru Networks Published Date: Nov 21, 2005
This paper explains the numerous places where VoWLAN can go to work, why most offerings fail to make it work, and how only Meru Networks' standard-based solution puts the power of VoWLAN to work at enterprise-scale.
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Meru Networks

Learn Why to Combine WAN-backup With Wide-Area Data Services

By : Riverbed Published Date: Jul 05, 2006
Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with wide-area data services (WDS) solutions.
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Riverbed

Learn How Advancements in WDS Can Reduce RPOs RTOs and More

By : Riverbed Published Date: Jan 19, 2007
How long can your Enterprise afford to be without your data? With an accelerated disaster recovery program, you never have to answer this question. Download this webseminar and learn how advancements in wide-area data services (WDS) can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. And hear featured customer case studies demonstrating how enterprises are putting these solutions into practice today. With lost data being a competitive liability, there is no room for downtime in today’s business world.
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Riverbed

Milhouse Engineering Manages the O’Hare Airport Project with GlobalSCAPE WAFS

By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 02, 2008
In 2005, O’Hare International Airport began a project to relocate and modernize a 2.1 million ft.2 runway. Five independent firms worked on the project design with the IT/data management led by Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc.  Milhouse implemented GlobalSCAPE WAFS which mirrors critical files to all sites. This provided fast local access to all project files automatically without any administrative burden and with no delays.

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GlobalSCAPE

Optimizing File Sharing and Data Back Up Over Wide Area Networks

By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 04, 2008
Disaster can strike when you least expect it.  So how do you back up and maintain control of your data and still provide access to data in a distributed organization?  The challenges are clear...large and growing amounts of data need to be distributed across many sites yet complications such as bandwidth usage, file coherence, version consistency, and file latency all result in lost productivity.

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GlobalSCAPE

QoS, QoE and Total Customer Experience

By : MASERGY Published Date: Jul 03, 2007
Organizations of all sizes are evolving to an enlightened, business-focused method of choosing network services and service providers called Total Customer Experience (TCE). This white paper describes the evolution toward a TCE approach and the benefits and clarity that TCE brings to the marketplace.
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MASERGY

Rapid Branch Office WAN Expansion with a Flat IT Budget

By : Blue Ridge Networks Published Date: Apr 20, 2007
Network World reports that enterprises are rapidly adding more branch offices yet must do so with IT budgets that aren’t increasing at the same rate. This is further complicated by the expansion of bandwidth-intensive applications like video conferencing, VoIP phone networks, and the drive for a paperless office. Expansion relying on carrier offerings requires more budget than is generally available.
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Blue Ridge Networks

Service-Embedded Network Management

By : MASERGY Published Date: Dec 07, 2006
This paper will explore the problems inherent in an overlay management approach and describe a new approach that allows for the management of the wide-area network to be not only offered as a service, but actually embedded in the network itself, resulting in several incremental benefits to the enterprise.
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MASERGY

Stratavia’s Data Center Automation Value Proposition

By : Stratavia Published Date: May 20, 2008
This white paper provides an overview of current challenges in the modern data center, the impact those challenges have on the business, and Stratavia’s approach to solving those problems.
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Stratavia

The Business Justification for Wireless Intrusion Prevention

By : AirTight Networks Published Date: Apr 19, 2006
More and more companies are realizing that their corporate air waves are an asset that requires protection. Strong security policies have been created for wired networks. The same is now needed for the corporate air waves. This paper will discuss the compelling business reasons why an investment in wireless intrusion prevention should be made.
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AirTight Networks

The Remote Access Imperative in Disaster Recovery

By : Aventail Published Date: Jun 21, 2006
Disaster recovery is not only needed for catastrophic events like natural disasters or pandemics, but for any event, like a snow storm or power outage that keeps your workers from getting to the office and disrupts your business. This white paper by business continuity expert Tim Clark of Fact Point Group, explores best practices for disaster recovery and the key role of SSL VPNs in that process.
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Aventail

The Distributed Enterprise: Access and Management of Remote Office IT Infrastructure

By : Raritan Published Date: Oct 11, 2007
While the proliferation of branch and remote offices is a positive sign of company growth, it can be a challenge for IT staffers. While many IT staffers use remote access software to diagnose and repair branch office problems, these tools are only useful if the OS and network are functioning. If the network or OS is down, additional costs in travel, time, and lost business might be incurred.
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Raritan

Uncover the Money-Saving Secrets of Wide-Area Data Services

By : Riverbed Published Date: Apr 17, 2008
Want to understand how other companies are turning their Riverbed investments into cost-saving machines? Download this case study bundle and uncover the money-saving secrets of wide-area data services (WDS) from Riverbed. These four enlightening case studies about very different organizations show how enterprises can slash network and IT costs while simultaneously improving application performance and business processes.
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Riverbed

Wide Area Network Security and Acceleration: A Short Guide to a Faster WAN

By : Quocirca Published Date: Jun 06, 2007
Wide areas networks (WANs) are essential to the majority of businesses, connecting remote locations and individuals back to centralized IT resources. But as the network is expected to handle more bandwidth intensive applications such as voice and video it is essential to ensure the WAN usage is well managed – eliminating unwanted traffic and accelerating business content.
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Quocirca

WDS and How it Can Accelerate and Simplify Your IT Infrastructure

By : Riverbed Published Date: Dec 08, 2006
Finally – some clarity in the application acceleration and WAN optimization space. Find out how WAFS, WAN optimization, compression, and Web acceleration technologies have come together into one powerful solution: Wide-area Data Services (WDS) in the white paper. Download today and dive into the technical specifics of WDS and understand how it can accelerate and simplify your IT infrastructure.
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Riverbed

Accelerating the Next Phase of Virtualization

By : Riverbed Published Date: Apr 21, 2008
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. Wide-area data services (WDS) 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.
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Riverbed
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