* Forecast for the worldwide WAN application delivery market
IBM laid claim to 11 software companies, filling technology gaps and grabbing customer accounts
How a handful of the year’s biggest moves by enterprises and vendors will play out in 2007
* Taking application acceleration and WAN optimization to the next level in 2007
Cisco and Microsoft may not be the first vendors that come to mind for management, but they want to be
* Blue Coat helps Avocent improve application performance across the WAN
Forrester and Goldman Sachs predict moderate increases in IT spending for the coming year.
Taylor Dondich, senior developer at GroundWork Open Source, says open source management tools are enterprise ready
* WAN optimization and application delivery technologies will converge, Gartner says
