Enterprises warm to of WAN optimization tools

Bojan Simic, TRAC Research
03 May 2010
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Total cost of ownership is a top evaluation criterion when selecting WAN optimization solutions. As enterprises expand their geographical presence to be closer to their customers, many have significantly changed the topologies of their networks and now have remote locations that have 15 employees or fewer. Purchasing, installing and managing WAN optimization hardware appliances in far-flung environments can be difficult to justify. Therefore, enterprises are becoming interested in managed services that would allow them to achieve all of the benefits of WAN optimization without having to worry about managing these appliances on their own, in each of their remote locations.
 
In addition, businesses are becoming more concerned about the cost of deploying and managing WAN optimization appliances, and TCO is becoming one of the top criteria for evaluating WAN optimization solutions. As a result, many are looking to mitigate some of that cost by deploying these capabilities as a service.
 
The WAN optimization product you are using today might not be as effective tomorrow. WAN optimization is no longer just a technology that will let businesses send more data across the network without having to buy more bandwidth. It has become a key enabler of IT projects and new application rollouts. So as organizations undertake new IT projects and roll out new applications more frequently, the WAN optimization solutions they bought one or two years ago to support applications they had at that time, might not be as effective in supporting the applications they are currently using.
 
The WAN optimization market is a good example of "one size doesn't fit all" and products have different strengths in optimizing certain protocols (like CIFS or MAPI or of new technology rollouts like virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), cloud computing and VoIP. As organizations experience changes in their IT and business requirements, they are looking for more flexibility in the WAN optimization capabilities they are using. Instead of having to replace their WAN optimization products every year, they are asking service providers to put together a package of capabilities that are the best fit for their current initiatives.
 

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