Based on their revenues last year and their traction in the market, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if this was the time they are choosing to go public. From a product standpoint they have...

When you have a device that sells for $2,500, and the embedded OS sells for zero dollars and now it’s a few hundred dollars, that makes a difference.

Encrypting browser traffic prevents WAN optimization controllers from performing their optimization functions. When selecting a WOC vendor, it is important to understand their strategy for dealing with encrypted traffic like SSL.

Customers look to application acceleration solutions as a way to maximize their data center investments and contain their infrastructure and operational costs. As these deployments become more mainstream, customers require solutions that remove the complexity...

CIFS is an incredibly chatty protocol.

The trend toward powerful platforms that deliver four or more functions continued as enterprises continued to simplify their infrastructure and vendors moved to grow revenue and increase account control. Market consolidation also continued in 2005...

Remote office consolidation is a business problem that requires a holistic approach. To succeed, enterprises must choose solutions that address all data access needs of the remote office — not just remote file access. And,...

Once [they’re] in the network, you’ll be completely dependent on them.

This is a strong entry from F5, and it’s a hot market, so other companies will move into this space.

There is still a per-CPU license, and whoever controls the branch office architecture controls the overall architecture. Cisco has made it clear they will enter the market and IBM will roll something out. Some things...

If it fails, you need to know what are the implications to the business processes. So even if the network is not down, it might be effectively down [without the acceleration technology].

You basically had no reliable backup for five years, until Sarbanes-Oxley came along. The office manager has taken the backup tapes home and put them on the mantle.