Welcome to the APO Battleground

John Siefert
Publisher, Network Computing

Welcome to the APO Battleground
Network and application staff can no longer blame each other for poor application performance. The line between the network and what it enables has virtually disappeared, requiring a new, whole-stack approach to application performance optimization. Network Computing asked leading vendors to contribute research, interviews, and whitepapers to help readers move beyond the blame game and set the best APO strategy.

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» Q&A: Delivering a Host of Technologies To Boost Application Performance

» Juniper WP: Best Practices for WAN Optimization

» Q&A: Achieving an End-to-End View of Application Performance

» White Paper: Supporting ITIL Process Interdependencies

» Webinars: Application Performance Management

For more information visit:
www.opnet.com/products/opnet-products.html

» Q&A: Effective Application Management Over the WAN

» Server & Storage Consolidation: Achieving the Promise

» Q&A: Delivering the Best End-User Experience

» Case Study: Computershare Online Financial Services

» Case Study: Ace Hardware Provides Customers and Employees with Global Enhanced Service

» White Paper: A Superior Global Redirection Solution for Multiple Data Center Environments

» Q&A: Scalable WAN Acceleration For the Security-Conscious Enterprise

For more information visit:
www.silver-peak.com/goodwin
www.silver-peak.com/ernst-young

http://networkcomputingreports.com/apo.jhtml

Application Infrastructure: The Quest For Networking's Holy Grail Application Front Ends can unite infrastructure with applications, but only if you skip the fine print.
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Airline Management Soars with Application Acceleration An application front-end appliance helps SkyVantage, a Web-based airline reservation and management system, deliver '5 nines' uptime for its airline customers while holding down data center costs.
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Wide Area File Services
With wide area file services, your remote users can access a central data center as if it were local. We tested three applications that speed data to wherever your users are. Our Editor's Choice impressed us with its solid reporting and performance.
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Centerfold: Extreme Makeover: Virtual Building Edition Major commercial contractor Webcor Builders is paving the way to virtual building, the next generation of construction technology where every detail of a project is modeled and mapped out virtually before hitting the job site. But adding those heavy files meant major expansions to the company's WAN, SAN and e-mail archiving architectures.
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Network Computing will be advancing its coverage of Application Performance Optimization with feature stories, reviews and analyst reports in the coming months, including:

» Analysis: Application Acceleration - May 14
» Comparative Product Review: Application Front Ends - May 14
» NWC Tech Report: Application Acceleration - May 2007