Anywhere, Anytime: Enabling Fast Remote Application Delivery
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In our InformationWeek Analytics Application Delivery survey, we asked business technology professionals in-depth questions about their strategies to improve application performance. A large majority, 89%, support multiple sites, and many are undertaking data center consolidation-reflective of trends we're seeing in the marketplace. Setting up branch and remote sites in a hub-and-spoke distribution pattern around regional data centers is good for redundancy of operations and data management, potentially a nightmare for IT groups that must deliver Web applications, legacy client/server software, remote desktops and other tools for doing business efficiently and securely. Can today's app delivery mechanisms help?
Our survey says yes. Most organizations using application delivery techniques are satisfied and have seen real benefits in terms of better performance, lower network utilization and/or increased reliability with a lower total cost of ownership. One example: Integrating teleworkers into application delivery systems no longer means putting pricey appliances in home offices; many of the symmetric optimizations and local caching features once found only on hardware can now be handled via desktop software, a welcome advance. And, respondents expect to increase their use of application delivery technologies as streaming media and remote desktops become more prevalent.
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Table of Contents
- Author's Bio
- Executive Summary
- Research Synopsis
- At Your Service
- The Survey
- Growth Industry
- Are You Happy? We're Happy
- Big Tent
- Performance Matters
- Lock It Up, We'll Take It
- What We're Using Now
- Data Center Consolidation
- Of VDI and Clouds
- Do No Harm
- Future Tense
- Windows and Loss Limit Goodput
- Appendix
About the Author
Mike Fratto is lead analyst for InformationWeek Analytics. He covers network infrastructure and network access control and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. Mike has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and previously was managing editor/labs for InformationWeek and NWC.com, a senior technology editor with Network Computing, and executive editor for Secure Enterprise. Mike speaks regularly at industry conferences, including NetWorld+Interop, MISTI, and the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to joining Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant.
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