The mainstream adoption of web-based applications, whether internally hosted, cloud hosted, or software as a service (SaaS), is transforming the ways in which enterprise-class applications are built, deployed, and consumed. While the evolution brings new levels of cost efficiency and flexibility, it also introduces new and unique visibility and control challenges for IT organizations, which
Unified communications (UC) is a powerful technology with a multifaceted value proposition. UC can significantly reduce the cost of communications; but more importantly, it raises productivity by streamlining the collaboration process. The technology also enables coworkers to collaborate in real time across the extended enterprise, which includes partners, customers, suppliers and other critical constituents. Learn
Remedying complex application performance problems often requires IT server, networking, and application administrators to assemble into a “war room” to troubleshoot the source of performance issues. Since each administrative team typically relies on its own discrete set of tools to monitor performance, these troubleshooting sessions can often be time consuming, contentious, and unproductive.
Enterprises have long considered live visibility into both network and application activity to be “musthaves” for many aspects of IT planning and operations. But the greatest value and impact is achieved when those two viewpoints are brought together so that relationships and dependencies can be revealed and understood by multiple relevant stakeholders. Never has this
The mainstream adoption of web-based applications, whether internally hosted, cloud hosted, or software as a service (SaaS), is transforming the ways in which enterprise-class applications are built, deployed, and consumed. While the evolution brings new levels of cost efficiency and flexibility, it also introduces new and unique visibility and control challenges for IT organizations, which
The realities of the modern IT landscape are daunting. Your business-critical applications are multi-platform, multi-tier, and span physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud environments. To reach your end user, application transactions traverse complex networks and infrastructure that are handling ever-increasing loads. In light of this, never has it been more challenging to monitor the performance and
In this report, we’ll look at challenges that businesses are facing when it comes to understanding network and application performance, and how the lack of network information can lead to bad performance, low user satisfaction, compliance issues and costly downtime. We’ll also investigate how leading organizations in network performance and management get deep visibility into
Info-Tech evaluated ten competitors in the ADC market, including the following notable performers: Champions: •Citrix offers a feature-rich ADC solution at a very attractive price. •F5 scored full points on evaluated features, is a mature vendor, and the market leader. •Radware’s flexibility of deployment and management make it easily accessible to most enterprises. •Riverbed can
Network traffic patterns have dramatically changed in the past decade from predictable and point-to-point transaction-oriented activities to bandwidth-hungry, always-on, many-to-many interactions. Virtualization, cloud services, new Web-centric application architectures, video and unstructured data, and big data are the newest entrants to the corporate network. For many organizations, the only way to ensure the stability of the
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is no longer an emerging service on the network. Many production environments have been using it for years, leveraging the greater flexibility and cost savings offered by this technology. Yet as more caller use VOIP for daily use, the expectations for quality and the need for tools and features to