We’ve received a lively response from many of you about experiences with your WAN acceleration vendors, and starting next week we will summarize what we heard. Before we tally up the responses though, folks have one last chance to weigh in. As reflected in the comment count below, thus far we’ve seen enormous variation in the relative participation and passion of different vendor’s customers. Let us know what you think, passionate or not. Although we don’t yet want to draw conclusions, feeble response may indicate lack of customer enthusiasm.
Here are links to the blogs for each vendor along with the number of comments tallied so far:
Tune in next week for the summary . . .
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The gift that keeps on giving.
After merging with another company we needed to quickly and cost effectively centralize our Servers and WAN enable our applications.
We chose the Blue Coat SG510 Series of units because of its simplicity and holistic approach to acceleration and content filtering.
Since installing the units we have experienced large performance gains in our Oracle and SQL traffic.
We had not had the time to convert our legacy applications to a SQL based platform so we had concerns about delivering these fairly large legacy CIFS based applications to our partner. The SG 510 handled this requirement well and in fact provided the largest overall performance gains on CIFS traffic and with the benefit of no additional licensing cost.
The Blue Coat Web Content Filtering has been fantastic at deterring spyware to the point where we have seen a sharp decline in the negative species of "wares" on our network.
The near real time monitoring and reporting features of the Blue Coat make it easy to manage and to ensure that our bandwidth is being optimally used.
The Blue Coat SG 510 is hard package to beat but with its ability to develop custom proxy services it truly becomes the gift that keeps on giving.
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