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Vintage White Papers
Transition to SD-WAN, successfully!
Requirement for a cloud based CDN
NFV Network Functions – Key Considerations for Profitability
The Business Case for Deploying SDN in Enterprise Networks
Leveraging SDN and NFV in the WAN
Primary Functionality Provided by an Application Delivery Controller
Key Components of WAN Optimization Controller Functionality
Architectural Criteria to Evaluate Overlay-Based SDN Solutions
Why network engineering needs to change
Are you ready for the next generation of network management?
Advantages and Disadvantages of Overlay-Based SDN Solutions
The 2014 State of the WAN Report
Best Practices for Super-Charging your IT Strategy
Service Assurance in Virtualized Data Centers
Traditional Application Service Delivery Challenges
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Ten Things to Look for in an SDN Controller
The Adoptioin of IaaS - A Market Analysis
Mock RFI for Enterprise SDN Solutions
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IT Operational Model
The Changing Role of the IT & Network Professional
The Promise and the Reality of a Software Defined Data Center
The Mandate to Move from a Highly Manual IT Function to a Highly Automated IT Function
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Below are other White Papers & Documents from the past
The Critical Role of the Network in Supporting Cloud-Based Solutions
Distributing Security and Optimization in the Application Delivery 2.0 Era
A LAN Perspective on Wireless WAN Requirements
The Three Components of Optimizing WAN Bandwidth
A Better Approach to Branch Office Application Delivery
Eliminating The Roadblocks to Effectively Managing Application Performance
The New Age MAN – The Architectures and Services
The New Age MAN – The Marketplace Requirements
Buyer’s Guide: Application Delivery Solutions
Managing the WAN’s Migration from Plumbing to Platform
Innovation in MPLS-Based Services
How to Approach Application Delivery
The Mandate to Implement Unified Performance Management
Proactive WAN Application Optimization – A Reality Check
The Transition to Networked Storage
Architecting the High Performance Storage Network
Taking Control of Secure Application Delivery
Supporting Server Consolidation Takes More than WAFS
Closing the WAN Intelligence Gap
Product Brief - Certeon’s aCelera Virtual Appliance for Acceleration
The Mandate for High Availability Video Programming
The Case for Managed Application Services
Is Your Network Ready for the 21st Century?
A Top-Down Approach to Managing Application Delivery
The Challenges of Managing Virtualized Server Environments
The Compelling ROI of Adaptive Private Networking
Network World WAN Newsletters
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Cisco, NetQoS move a step closer to integrated network optimization, management
How optimizing the business network could help you optimize your career
Senior management: Don’t manage each IT component in isolation
How to fix application performance issues: Organize an IT pow-wow
When apps are slow, net managers are wrong until proven right
Don’t assume application performance problems are always network-related
What makes application management so hard to do?
NOCs now in charge of application management
Zero chance of interoperability between optimization technologies
Are you in a state of denial over the need for network, application optimization?
The benefits of managed service for applications performance
Microsoft SharePoint could be a challenge for WAN optimization
Juniper’s take on network optimization
The three components of application delivery according to Cisco
How does your company handle recreational use of Internet resources?
Chicago Mercantile Exchange sees benefits in automated change management
McDonalds see business value in the WAN
Which is most important to organizations - service delivery or service support?
Using ITIL for better WAN management
What’s the goal of route analytics in the WAN?
Logical sources of performance and availability issues
The demise of hub-and-spoke networks
The WAN and the wiki generation, Part 1
The WAN and the wiki generation, Part 2
The WAN and the wiki generation, Part 3
Survey: Organizations’ application delivery processes are ineffective
Users formalizing processes to manage application performance
Successful application delivery
Benchmarking for WAN-vicious apps, Part 1
Benchmarking for WAN-vicious apps, Part 2
When YouTube presents true business value
Cisco analyst conference mulls super fast pipes vs. highly functional nets
Does your WAN benefit your business’ business?
YouTube, video e-mails causing headaches for WAN administrators
Morphing tactical solutions to becoming strategic ones
The benefits of thinking strategic when deploying network optimization
What is termed network misuse in one company may not be so in another
Naïve users who hog (or bring down) the network
Network managers reveal extent of network misuse on their nets
Network managers plugged into the importance of application delivery
Cisco vs. Microsoft: The battle over the branch office, unified communications, and collaboration
Cisco gets serious about application delivery
Application Acceleration that Focuses on the Application, Part 1
Application Acceleration that Focuses on the Application, Part 2
CIOs don't take enough notice of application delivery issues
WAN-vicious apps are a net manager's worst nightmare
Who in your company first notices when apps performance starts to degrade?
When applications perform badly, is the CYA approach good enough?
Making sure the apps your senior managers care about work well over the WAN
Where best to implement network and application acceleration, Part 1
Where best to implement network and application acceleration, Part 2
A new convergence form brings together security and application acceleration
What makes for a next-generation application performance product?
The limitations of today's app acceleration products
What slows down app performance over WANs?
Automating application acceleration
Advancing the move to WAN management automation
Application benchmarking helps you to determine how apps will perform
How do you feel about one-box solutions?
Users don't want WAN optimization tools that are complex to manage
QoS, visibility and reporting are hot optimization techniques, users say
Survey finds users are becoming proactive with WAN mgmt.
Microsoft attempts to address CIFS' limitations in R2
WAFS could answer CIFS' limitations
Disgruntled users and the centralized data center
WAFS attempts to soothe the problems of running popular apps over WANs
WAN optimization helps speed up data replication for global benefits firm
Application accelerators take on various problems
The gap between networks and applications lingers
Is Cisco AON the new-age message broker?
How TCP ensures smooth end-to-end performance
Mechanisms that directly influence network throughput
Increase bandwidth by controlling network misuse
Cisco's FineGround buy signals big change in the WAN optimization sector
The thorny problem of supporting delay-sensitive Web services
Uncovering the sources of WAN connectivity delays
Why adding bandwidth does nothing to improve application performance
Organizations are deploying MPLS and queuing for QoS, survey finds
The trick of assigning network priority to application suites
TCP acceleration and spoofing acknowledgements
How TCP acceleration could be used for WAN optimization
Antidote for ‘chatty’ protocols: WAFS
How are you optimizing your branch-office WAN?
What the next generation Web services mean to your WAN
Bandwidth vs. management: A careful balancing act