Poor application performance due to WAN latency has negatively impacted distributed enterprises and organizations for years. Now this same issue threatens companies who are moving to create private, public or hybrid cloud computing networks. As companies determine which applications are appropriate to run in the cloud, WAN optimization can help -- not only in breaking performance bottlenecks, but also in reducing the number of applications that would otherwise need to be rewritten. WAN optimization capabilities are being extended to address a broad range of private and public cloud computing challenges. The speaker will examine virtual WAN optimization and advancements in branch office optimization that will enable, and further drive, dependence on cloud computing.
