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Executive Editor

Keeping up with WAN optimization

Opinion
Feb 10, 20102 mins

Ann Bednarz: “I’ve enjoyed learning and writing about WAN optimization, application delivery and more. Interacting with readers, getting story ideas, and hearing what’s on your minds was the best part. Thank you for your feedback over the years.”

This newsletter is an ending of sorts for me. It’s the last one I’ll be writing for the Network Optimization alert.

If you’re a subscriber, you’ll continue to receive the e-mail alert, and I’ll keep finding stories, slideshows and opinion pieces related to network optimization to fill it. But my column will no longer be a part of the content.

I’ve enjoyed learning and writing about WAN optimization, application delivery and more. Interacting with readers, getting story ideas, and hearing what’s on your minds was the best part. Thank you for your feedback over the years.

In the future I’ll be highlighting content from other excellent Network World sources such as Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel’s blog, App Performance View.

So you’ll keep receiving links to the latest news about WAN services, infrastructure products for speeding application delivery, vendors news and industry research. Please also feel free to stay in touch and pitch story ideas to me. I’m still one of Network World’s news editors and always on the lookout for fresh ideas. You can also follow me on Twitter.

— Ann Bednarz

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Ann Bednarz is the executive editor of Network World. Ann is a longtime IT journalist and has spent 26 years writing and editing for Network World, where she has worked as a news reporter, managed product testing and reviews, and developed features and how-to articles for an audience of network professionals and data center managers. Over the last two years, she has conceived and edited award-winning content for Network World that includes 2025 Jesse H. Neal Award finalists, 2025 Azbee Award regional winners and national finalists, and 2024 Eddie & Ozzie Award finalists.

Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture and spent the early part of her journalism career writing about architectural design and construction. In her free time, she keeps those skills alive through DIY projects.

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