"2008 Handbook of Application Delivery" Says IT Should React to Application, Infrastructure Issues Before Users Negatively Impacted.New Section by Dr. Jim Metzler Looks at Use of Managed Services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality ; Ipanema Designed for Strategic Deployments of WAN Optimization WAN optimization products seek to accelerate a broad range of applications accessed by distributed enterprise users via eliminating redundant transmissions, staging data in local caches, compressing and prioritizing data, and streamlining chatty protocols (e.g., CIFS).. WALTHAM, Mass. -- The "2008 Handbook of Application Delivery -- a Guide to Decision Making" authored by industry authority Dr. Jim Metzler of Kubernan sees organizations reacting too often to application and infrastructure issues only after they have negatively impacted users. The handbook was developed to help IT organizations develop the ability to minimize the occurrence of application performance issues and to both identify and quickly resolve issues when they occur. The recently published 97-page report (including an executive summary) builds upon the original document released last year, adding new sections, including one on managed service providers. The report notes that one of the advantages of using a managed service provider is that they often have the skills and processes that are necessary to bridge the gap that typically exists within an IT organization between the application development groups and the rest of the IT function. The report concludes that for the foreseeable future, the importance of application delivery is much more likely to increase. Analogously, for the foreseeable future the impact of the factors that make application delivery difficult is much more likely to increase. To deal with these two forces, Dr. Metzler advises that IT organizations develop a systematic approach to applications delivery. Given the complexity associated with application delivery, this approach cannot focus on just one component of the task such as network and application optimization, but rather should integrate the key components of planning, network and application optimization, management and control. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dr. Metzler, successful application delivery requires that IT organizations identify the acceptable performance of the applications running on the network that are relevant to the business. In addition, organizations must control and or eliminate irrelevant applications. Ipanema Technologies, a leader in application traffic management systems for wide area networks, is unique in offering this type of solution. Ipanema's Business Network Optimization solution is the only one that combines all advanced network optimization functions that guarantee network application performance while providing full visibility of application flows over the network, application performance maximization and bandwidth rightsizing Selecting a computer system, whether micro, mini or mainframe, that best meets the needs of the application. according to application performance objectives. "My research indicates that Ipanema is unique in dynamically guaranteeing application performance, including the key activities that make up application delivery: profiling an application prior to deploying it, setting an objective for application performance, reducing the amount of traffic that transits the WAN, prioritizing traffic that is business critical and delay sensitive and implementing traffic management that can dynamically allocate network resources," said Metzler. According to Thierry Grenot, chief technical officer of Ipanema, "This report provides valuable information for network managers and we concur wholeheartedly whole·heart·ed adj. Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm: wholehearted approval. whole with Dr. Metzler's findings. We strongly recommend that IT organizations evaluate their needs before complaints rise from users. We also suggest that enterprises consider more carefully managed service options from their service providers because of the advantages described in the report." The Ipanema solution supports progressive deployments of devices and features. For example, companies can obtain visibility and guarantee flow performance over their whole network by only putting devices in datacenters. A first level of acceleration can even be obtained using its patented asymmetrical TCP acceleration TCP Acceleration is the name of a series of techniques for achieving better throughput on an Internet connection than standard TCP achieves, without modifying the end applications. It is an alternative or a supplement to TCP tuning. , which does not require any device at the branch. Ipanema Technologies provides a Business Network Optimization solution that automatically manages and maximizes WAN application performance through the combined use of visibility, optimization, acceleration and network application governance features. "The Handbook of Application Delivery" can be downloaded at http://www.ipanematech.com About Ipanema Technologies (www.ipanematech.com) Ipanema is a provider of advanced application traffic management solutions that align the network with business goals. Network integrators market Ipanema's Business Network Optimization solutions to enterprises, while telecom service providers and network managed service providers offer those as a service. The Business Network Optimization solution is simple, automated and scalable and allows enterprises to easily control, guarantee and accelerate their critical application performance regardless of network conditions. It relies on Ipanema's Autonomic Networking Autonomic Networking follows the concept of Autonomic Computing, an initiative started by IBM in 2001. Its ultimate aim is to create self-managing networks to overcome the rapidly growing complexity of the Internet and other networks and to enable their further growth, far beyond System to provide: full Visibility of application flows over the network, global and dynamic Optimization of network resources, transparent application Acceleration, Network Application Governance functions and Scalable Service Delivery capabilities. Ipanema's Business Network Optimization solutions are deployed in more than 75 countries. Its customers include large organizations such as Leroy Merlin, Sodiaal, Altadis, Sephora, Brittany Ferries Brittany Ferries is a French ferry company that runs ships between France, the UK, Ireland and Spain. History 1970s and 1980s The company was founded in January 1973 by Alexis Gourvennec, and began sailings between Roscoff in Brittany and Plymouth in the South , Bongrain, Michael Page Michael Harry Page (born June 17, 1941) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1964 and 1975. He was born in Blackpool. , NH Hoteles, SGS SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SGS Symantec Gateway Security (appliance) SGS School of Graduate Studies SGS Subgrid Scale SGS Singapore Government Securities SGS Shell Global Solutions , Nespresso, Clariant, TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. , L'Oreal, Cap Gemini, Henkel, the French Army, Europcar, Rhodia, Lexmark etc. About Kuperman Kubernan[TM], led by industry veterans Steven Taylor Steven Taylor may refer to:
(2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. , as well as in areas that cross the traditional functional boundaries of IT, such as Unified Communications The real time redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended recipient at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cellphone when required. and Application Delivery. Kubernan's focus is on providing actionable insight through custom research with a forward looking viewpoint. Through reports that examine industry dynamics from both a demand and a supply perspective, the firm educates the marketplace both on emerging trends and the role that IT products, services and processes play in responding to those trends. |
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