WAN Optimization, the obvious choice, usually works very well, but WAN Virtualization, Network-as-a-Service or replicated file service contribute mightily here too
Traditional WAN Optimization techniques don’t help much, so other solutions are needed.
Certain techniques work better to deal with the effects of congestion-based increases in latency application performance over the WAN
Historically expensive private WAN bandwidth and storage costs, greater capabilities, made WAN Optimization the easy winner
Enormous benefits possible for lowering bandwidth costs, reducing latency, and predictable performance
Small footprint for enterprise applications at colo facilities a critical capability; ability to deploy multiple network apps on a server at the branch often helpful as well
With combination of disk-based deduplication and fixing Microsoft CIFS for the WAN, Riverbed led in enabling data center consolidation
