• Update on Bufferbloat

    It’s been a while since I mentioned bufferbloat. Dave Taht and his team continue to work on tools to explore the problem.

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  • Gartner’s key IT trends for 2012

    Gartner have identified their key IT trends for 2012. Nothing terribly surprising: cloud, virtualization, big data, social networks and energy costs are all in there. Interestingly though, in-line de-duplication gets a mention as part of the big data story, and I wouldn’t have foreseen a key element of WAN optimization finding its way into the list.

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  • Too Late

    Network World have an article on WAN optimization hardware vs. WAN optimization services I broadly agree with the statements but can’t help feeling the comments are about two years too late in coming.

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  • So what’s next?

    We’re now into our second sprint of the Replify Accelerator 4.1 release and it seems timely to share our plans. We build our releases around themes and the two themes in this release are CLAN and Speed.

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  • Expand implodes

    Expand Networks has gone into receivership. Since they are, or were, a competitor in WAN Optimization you might expect me to be pleased. In fact I’m not.

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  • With Cloud – Performance is the issue

    At Replify we’ve believed all along that the real challenge with Cloud was performance despite all the hub-bub about security

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  • Networking Magazine Report on WOCs

    The UK journal Networking has run a great report on WAN Optimization Contollers going into the subject with level of discussion it deserves.

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  • Are people choosing to be Home Alone?

    A recent Cisco study reported that one-third of college students and young professionals consider the Internet to be a vital daily resource and requirement

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