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.

When we said “hardware” we meant “software” of course.

I’m watching the traditional hardware-based WAN Optimization companies shuffling their feet and subtly repositioning themselves as software-based. It’s fun to watch.

EMA award Replify “Best Mobility Strategy”

EMA, an industry analyst, has just released their EMA WAN Optimization Radar Report I listened to their webex yesterday and I’ve read the report and it’s pretty interesting.

Bittersweet

Rackspace just announced a deal with Akamai to provide optimization for their cloud services. I simultaneously went “yay!” and “ouch!”.