Why WAN optimization won over WAFS

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	Why WAN optimization won over WAFS Both WAFS and WAN optimization addressed the key issue of CIFS performance, delivering "LAN-like" performance when accessing files on remote Microsoft file servers, a key capability during a time of data center consolidation. Where WAFS was pretty much a one-trick pony, WAN optimization, by contrast, did a lot more. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Solar Winds Quickly Identify Misconfigured Active Directory Permissions What users have access to sensitive files or directories? Find out without tedious manual effort. Troubleshoot permissions issues both locally and on remote shares with SolarWinds free tool, Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory. Easily see what permissions a user or group of users has for an object and why. Get a complete hierarchical view of the effective permission and access rights for a specific file folder or share drive today by downloading the free tool. 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Read More Open source should come first when choosing new enterprise IT, report says Businesses that want to trade in their old systems for new IT should consider moving to open source first before thinking about a proprietary system, according to a report commissioned by transaction processing services provider Amadeus IT Group. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. WAN Optimization eGuide In this eGuide, articles from Network World examine the maturing WAN optimization market, collect advice from experts and users on how best to implement these products, and look at new trends. Read on to discover how to make the most of WAN optimization in enterprise networks. Read now. Cisco aims to secure the data center New products designed to enforce end-to-end security for high-capacity environments, mobile workers. Read More IBM chief: Supercomputing to SMEs will be huge cloud market in the future Tikiri Wanduragala, a senior systems consultant at IBM, has said that the next big thing to happen in the cloud computing market will be the availability of supercomputing applications to small and medium sized businesses. Read More Acme Packet announces offerings to accelerate Microsoft Lync deployments Acme Packet has announced new offers intended to accelerate Microsoft Lync deployments for customers who want to take advantage of Lync's enterprise voice capabilities. The offers target customers who need combined Session Border Control (SBC), session management, and trunk-side application server functions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Optimize and Secure Cloud, SaaS, BYOD, and Social Media Today's threat landscape has migrated to the web causing many security professionals to prevent direct Internet access at the branch. But with new cloud-based security solutions from Blue Coat you can re-architect your network to embrace the Internet – safely – and optimize application performance. Learn more. Cisco rival Juniper changes data center heads Employee No. 12 has left the group. R.K. Anand, one of the first employees of Juniper Networks when it was founded in 1996, has relinquished his position as executive vice president and general manager of Juniper's Data Center Business Unit. Read More California Prop 30 puts new social influence website to the test A new website launched by UC Berkeley to measure social networking influence's role in spreading knowledge will use California Proposition 30 as its first test case. Read More Nasuni latest to roll out mobile access to cloud-based network storage Within a few years, mobile access to cloud-based storage will be a "checkmark" feature that will be fairly ubiquitous among the major vendors, predicts 451 Research Group analyst Simon Anderson. We're not quite there yet, but more and more vendors are rolling out the feature. Read More Juniper plotting open source alternative to Cisco, VMware SDN controllers Juniper is working with other industry players on an open source-based controller for software-defined networks (SDN) that would be an alternative to proprietary offerings from VMware and Cisco. Read More
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