- Get a grip or you don't get the job
- Desktops of the future here today
- Researcher hides IE attack on Web
- Cisco third quarter 2008 channel stuffing
- Sci-Fi's goofiest gadgets and technology
Microsoft sniffing around Facebook? Google's Paris street photos may spark lawsuits. Listen now!
Tech vendors are like high school. Listen now!
Before now, midsize customers settled for either an expensive and complex array or low cost solution that lacked functionality. Now experience virtual storage with enterprise class functionality at an affordable price.
Get the latest on storage technologies that allow IT professionals to better cope with new IT demands. Learn how storage technologies can help you successfully tackle e-Discover, regulatory compliance, green data center initiatives and the data explosion. Get all the details now.
Watch this webcast to learn in six modules how to more cost effectively consolidate your Windows servers with virtualization. This unique program allows you to pick and choose which of the six modules you would like to view or watch the entire webcast at once. Topics covered: Performance, Use Cases, Enterprise-level Support, Managing Windows Workloads, Setup and Configuration and The Future. Find out how you can simplify server consolidation within your organization today. Register below to learn more and be entered to win an Archos 605 Portable Media Player.
You can find related project managemen articles in
- Anonymous
Comprehensive Network & Voice Management Visit CA Network & Voice Management Resource Center and get insights into industry best practices, information that helps you to address your challenges.
Voice over IP (VoIP) has much to offer in cost savings but some customers have concerns about VoIP call quality compared to the quality of traditional voice services. This white paper will help you learn how to take the right steps so that voice quality is assured.
Managing your network is serious business. This paper discusses the benefits of integrating configuration change-awareness into your network fault management solution
More and more application acceleration vendors are realizing that to provide customers with more complete WAN optimization products they need to add wide-area file services (WAFS) as well.
Following companies such as Expand Networks and Riverbed Technology, F5 Network's WANJet 4.0 release is the most recent example of additional WAFS capabilities being coupled with application acceleration wares.
WANJet appliances, which F5 acquired with Swan Labs last year, have been upgraded to accelerate access to Common Internet File System files, Microsoft's commonly used format for network file sharing. The WANJet 4.0 could help users in offices with centralized file servers retrieve and edit documents faster, F5 says. Industry watchers say the devices could be used to replace file servers in branch offices as a way to speed backup of remote data.
WANJet appliances use a dual-sided, symmetric architecture, meaning enterprise customers install an appliance between the router and the switch in the data center and another one sits in the remote or branch location. The devices sit at either end of the WAN connections examining packet flows, compressing traffic, shaping it and optimizing TCP to improve throughput.
According to F5 Networks' Ameet Dhillon, director of product management, WANJet 4.0 includes software that employs Transparent Data Reduction, which also speeds traffic over WAN links. The feature enables the software to store blocks of data in RAM as they are sent so that when the same block is required in later transmissions, it doesn't have to be sent across the wire. Instead, the sending machine sends a brief cue that indicates what previously sent block to use. The receiving WANJet pulls that block from memory and sends it along to the local machine that requested it.
"This is high-speed pattern matching, not file caching," Dhillon says.
Expected to be generally available next month, entry-level pricing of WANJet 4.0 starts at $1,795 per appliance.