Disaster Recovery using Replify

Ensuring your data is backed up and safe from outages is a vital task for an enterprise and most will have some sort of backup and recovery mechanism in place. But to make the backup really safe, you want the data to be somewhere other than where it’s being generated and consumed

IP Expo 2012

It can’t be coincidence that “Trade Show” is an anagram of “Sweat Hord”. This week saw the annual IP Expo event at Earl’s Court in London and there were indeed hords and sweat. Some of the sweat was mine.

Trending Now

Trac Research http://www.trac-research.com/ are about to publish their report on WAN Optimization Controllers. In the mean time Trac’s Jeremy Rozen has published a short summary of the five key trends. Now I’m a Product Manager, so my boss should sack me if I have to tell him “Hey, I didn’t see that one coming” for many of these. Is my job safe?

Dear Santa

Network World have just run an item on IT professional’s favorite products. I wouldn’t have guessed it, but in the list you’ll find 2 WAN Optimization controllers, 2 Application Delivery Controllers and a couple of network monitoring technologies.

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.

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

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.

Roundup

I’ve been catching up on news digests over the last few days and a couple of things caught my eye.

Firstly, Vint Cerf, usually referred to as “the father of the internet” is suggesting that the need for streaming (as in content) will be obviated by massive increases in network bandwidth.