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• WAN application performance visibility equals better WAN management

  Global company SGS Group has improved WAN management across more than 1,000 sites by taking advantage of the WAN application performance reporting capabilities of its WAN optimization vendor, Ipanema Technologies. Continue Reading

• Types of cloud computing services WAN managers should consider

  WAN managers can benefit greatly from understanding the different types of cloud computing services available to them. Understand how SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, security, network, systems, and project planning services can be used to benefit your enterprise ... Continue Reading

• How your enterprise WAN network monitoring strategy needs to evolve

  The discrepancy between network monitoring and management has blurred now that technology, service and labor changes have taken place in the enterprise. This change requires an update to your WAN network monitoring strategy. To learn about the ... Continue Reading

• WAN network monitoring and management convergence alters SLAs, tool requirements

  A lack of network specialists in the IT workforce has caused WAN network monitoring and management to converge into one network operation. This increases the complexity of service-level agreement (SLAs) and network monitoring tools. Read this tip to... Continue Reading

• Choosing a provider for WAN managed services for your enterprise

  How do you find the right provider for your business's WAN managed services? Ask the right questions. To get a managed service provider (MSP) at the right price with the right offerings and service-level agreements (SLAs), view these tips. Continue Reading

• 10 GbE core, MPLS networking nullify routers and ease WAN management

  Using MPLS networking and simplifying its design with more powerful hardware allowed one credit union to ease WAN management and save hundreds of thousands of dollars.Continue Reading

• Providers broaden vendor choice in managed WAN optimization services

  As the relatively young market for managed WAN optimization services continues to evolve, wide area network (WAN) managers are getting more choices and say over which vendor's technology to deploy.Continue Reading

• How cloud computing challenges an IT manager's enterprise WAN strategy

  Understand how cloud computing challenges your enterprise wide area network (WAN) strategy and see how a WAN manager's job functions and responsibilities will change during a cloud computing implementation.Continue Reading

• Dairy co-op consolidates WAN with managed MPLS services after merger

  Rather than build a new WAN after a merger, a Dutch dairy cooperative is waiting out old contracts and slowly transitioning to managed MPLS-based services from one global WAN service provider.Continue Reading

• WAN managers must weigh using one or multiple service providers

  Wide area network (WAN) managers need to think less like techies and more like business strategists when deciding whether to power the WAN with one or multiple service providers. Enterprises have to decide how much risk they can tolerate and weigh ...Continue Reading

• Consolidation, centralization change the face of WAN managed services

  In an era of tight budgets, a shortage of skilled staff and increasing network demands, WAN managed services are looking better as an option to help eliminate management and support stress on a company's IT department. There are also some ...Continue Reading

• Telecom expense management services cut costs, boost WAN efficiency

  Manual management of telecom expenses is too old school. Network engineers tasked with managing their wide-area networks more efficiently and at lower cost should consider telecom expense management software and services. Savings of 10% to 30% are ...Continue Reading

• Centralization, smaller budgets drive demand for managed WAN services

  As efforts like unified communications (UC) and collaborative applications take flight, enterprises are relying more on application performance monitoring and management tools, network optimization solutions, and even WAN- managed service providers ...Continue Reading

• SAN replication trends a plus for cloud computing, but shifts burden to WAN managers

  Storage admins are giving up their dedicated network links for SAN replication, which means more work for the network engineer managing production wide-area networks. This consolidation reduces complexity and enables cloud computing, but it also ...Continue Reading

• SLAs, not infrastructure management, critical to WAN application delivery

  Wide area network (WAN) engineers who focus on infrastructure are missing the big picture, analysts warn. Everything should be framed in terms of applications, not routers. WAN professionals need to know how to develop and deliver on internal ...Continue Reading