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Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

NetworkWorld.com

Consolidation trend shifting from data center to branch office

Vendors looking to make it easier to control the performance of apps to the branch

Branch Office Best Practices Newsletter By Robin Gareiss, Network World, 05/16/06

Data center consolidation has been the hot trend of the past few years. Now the practice of consolidation is turning toward the branch office.

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Both Packeteer and Expand, which started as network-optimization vendors, bought the companies for their wide-area file services (WAFS) technology. The deals potentially move the vendors into the virtual storage and print-services markets. As more data and applications become centralized at the data center, it’s imperative for IT staffs to design cost-effective, performance-predictable architectures for branch office access.

The WAN-optimization space, itself, has been consolidating during the past few years. Internap bought Sockeye and NetVmg, and Avaya acquired RouteScience in the route-optimization space. In the WAN-optimization/application-acceleration space, Cisco bought Actona and FineGround, F5 acquired Swan Labs, and Juniper bought Peribit and Redline.

Vendors are trying to make it easier for organizations to control the performance of applications to the branch. At the same time, they want to provide network managers with options of how they will manage the devices needed at the branch.

Organizations manage seven networking devices (switches, routers, PBXs, VPNs, etc.) on average at every branch office. When you add to that the number of print and application servers they manage, it quickly becomes obvious how cumbersome it is to manage each branch location.

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