Just like other technology sectors, the WAN optimization market has been battered by the recession and a cautious reluctance by IT types to spend any significant money on network upgrades. Nevertheless, the WAN optimization market has survived and even conservatively thrived in this tough and bitter economy, with sales hitting about $226 million in Q1 this year.
The vendors and companies we talk to that have divisions based outside the U.S. or are themselves headquartered in the hinterlands tell us that customers are screaming for faster access across the Web, especially as cloud computing rolls in and software as a service (SaaS) becomes the norm for remote workers.
Find out more about these trends, as well as how companies like SAP are tackling WAN optimization at WANs across the water, WAN optimization across the seas on Window on WANs.
