The deployment of BYOD requires being an iterative procedure-support for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for certain commodity enterprise technology such as email and collaboration systems that can set up the very base for shifting on to a mission-specific, diverse applications and an expanded scope of organization offerings. The access can be facilitates with the help of applications that are native to the device, installable or downloadable applications or a web browser. The public and privat...

The practice of distributing workload across multiple components or resources to optimize resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload is referred to as Load Balancing. In today’s competitive business environment, where achieving the highest levels of application performance is of critical importance to any enterprise, it is the load balancer solutions that help enterprises optimize servers, network connections and tuning applications and thereby del...

Globalization led expansion of enterprises across geographies results in increase in functions,number of workforce, customers, volume of database, IT infrastructure and  network servers besides its size.  To cater for increase in the data that needs to be stored and processed for the proper functioning of their widespread offices, enterprises make use of multiple data centers and server farms.   However, these expansions and accessibility to the corporate networks challenges global organizat...

In today’s hypercompetitive business environment, responding to business requirements as quickly as possible is the secret to business success. With applications being the lifeblood of today’s businesses, ensuring application deliveryin a timely manner should be the top priority of any business enterprise. Today enterprises have multiple responsibilities to meet namely enhancing business processes, boosting employee productivity and improving customer experience. Hence, enterprises need ...

In today’s business environment, where consumerization of IT has resulted in the popularity of the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), employees, partners, customers, contractors and guests want remote access to business applications anywhere at any time. Though ensuring remote access helps enterprises to increase productivity, it is highly necessary that enterprises make sure that security and compliance are equally maintained. With security breaches being a serious issue, enterprises...

Thanks to the consumerization of IT, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a concept that is getting popular these days. Since today technology progresses from customers to organizations, more and more employees want to work with mobile devices that they are comfortable with. BYOD is here to stay and is not a passing trend as it is believed to be. As per Juniper research, the number of mobile devices used in the enterprises worldwide will increase and may be it will be more than double at the end ...

Consumerization of IT is transforming the traditional IT landscape of organizations and the way employees use technology. As if mobile devices weren't enough of a constant in our everyday lives, several studies predict that they might be even more prominent in the coming years. Today, with advances in consumer technology, mobile applications, affordability of smart and powerful mobile devices, organizations are more challenged than ever to incorporate them into the enterprise IT architecture...

Applications are the lifeblood of enterprise operations as these are required for human resources, customer relationships, resource planning, accounting, collaboration, communication and a wide variety of additional business-critical processes. Whether hosted in the data center or in the cloud, these applications must cost-effectively scale without sacrificing reliability or the end-user experience. This is because in today’s competitive business environment, applications need to be fast, ...

Unplanned business disruptions come in many forms and sizes resulting in tremendous losses.  With enterprises becoming increasingly reliant on technology to conduct their business, BCP has gained all the more importance. As it is usually too late to implement a BCP solution when a disruptive event occurs, there is always a loss of productivity and revenue. The ability of an organization to recover from a disaster is directly related to the degree of BCP [Business Continuity Planning] that ha...

Array Networks is a global provider of networking solutions that improve application performance, availability and security. Our solutions connect users and applications – providing access for any user, anywhere, on any device to applications, desktops and services in the data center or the cloud.

Mobile devices and mobile working are driving major changes in the enterprise. More users must be able to work from anywhere and more users want to use tablets and smart phones as business product...

Being able to balance workload evenly all through various servers is crucial for resolving time-sensitive scanning issues and challenges. With a gateway HTTP scanning solution, all the internal endpoints that request for external Web content are more probable to have a positive experience in case both their request and the final content are allowed to transparently pass through the network’s web scanning or caching infrastructure.

Importance of Load Balancing in Web Security

Load bala...

Wikipedia defines application delivery controller as “a network device in the datacenter that helps perform common tasks done by web sites in an effort to remove load from the web servers themselves.” It is only recently that enterprises have started using application delivery controllers on a large scale. Gartner realized the shift in demand among enterprises when as part of its research titled ‘Application Delivery Controller End-User Spending, Worldwide, 2005-2010’ it discovered t...

An Application Delivery Controller is defined as “a data center network device that helps manage client connections to complex Web and enterprise applications.” According to Gartner, Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) are “designed for data centre applications and improve the performance of Web-based and related applications by providing a suite of services at the network and application layers.” Usually enterprises deploy ADCs behind a firewall and in front of one or more appli...

Every business enterprises today is technology enabled and the multinational organizations survive through array of functions with the help of widely networked environment. However, with the ever-changing demands from the customers and the growth oriented business, enterprises need to have a scalable and secure networked system with the ability to provide the end-users with bandwidth for application visibility.

The need for WAN bandwidth optimization also involves process consolidation and man...

Load balancing can be best defined as a computer method to distribute work load all through the computer clusters, servers, central processing units, disk drives, network links or any other resources. Load balancing comes with its own set of advantages, such as :

·         Reduces the load on individual systems and minimizes response time

·         Increase network utilization

·         Improves reliability  

·         Facilitates scaling

·         Enhance user satisfaction  

In...

Technological advancements have changed remarkably the way businesses operate today, but the increased reliance on technology has its own share of disadvantages. Though IT solutions and services help enterprises to carry out their business operations swiftly, smoothly and perfectly, it has not been able to guarantee continuous business operations.

Disasters are part and parcel of any industry, which can never be predicted nor prevented. The only thing that can be done is to reduce its impact ...

The business world today makes use of every available technology to withstand the aggressive competition prevalent in the environment.  With the growth in the use of various applications, across corporate environment, the IT departments have explored the possibilities of using dedicated servers. These are computer systems which are part of the corporate network and are kept apart for specific jobs so as to fasten the access and processing time. However, with the increasing demands on the par...

To explain in simple terms, a business continuity plan can be termed as a common sense document or agenda that successfully addresses certain business needs and circumstances and the way to deal with them not hindering the overall productivity. It offers practical and meaningful strategies that a company needs to follow in crisis, such as in case of natural disasters like flood, storm, business crisis situations such as financial crunches, power outages, computer viruses and so on.

Efficient ...

The technological enhancements and the competitive environment has paved way for business houses to go global. But such a move has its own pros and cons. Though it has profit bearing characteristics, the global organizations are also challenged by their competitors to drive enterprise productivity levels without being effected by any disruptions while being compliant to all the local and international regulations.  Further, business expansions have also created a mobile workforce. One way to...

In today's competitive world most employers are urging their employees to add greater value to the overall business by improving their capacity to perform from anywhere, anytime and on any device of their preference.

In today's competitive world most employers are urging their employees to add greater value to the overall business by improving their capacity to perform from anywhere, anytime and on any device of their preference. With the increasing requirement of instant information, emplo...

Much of the progress that the corporate world has attained in terms of systematic work processes and operations has been a result of computer and internet technology. However, for some time it was a challenge to come up with a feasible yet productive work solution for the mobile workers and also for others who wanted to balance work and their home. With the latest technological advancements eminent solution providers today has come up with high-end remote desktop access solutions that have f...

Our modern day business world is evolving and is becoming much more advanced and globalized, with multiple teams working across various time zones. As a result of which, the traditional 9am to 5pm job set up is becoming or rather has become obsolete. That is not all. The customary meeting taking place in boardrooms or conference room too are being replaced by online collaborations and conversations that today is an easy task with the help of remote access solutions and SSL VPN tools. Remote ...

With rapid technology advances, companies are increasingly finding themselves having to evaluate a major trend in BYOD (Bring your own device) that also has risks among its many advantages. The growing significance of IT has led to workers wanting tablet access to business applications, often from personal devices. According to a recent study by IDC, 78% of IT executives are convinced that a BYOD program has a positive effect on employee morale and ultimately a constructive impact on busines...

Today's global business environment though technologically sound, is also a very complex one. The growth of the mobile internet and use of smart phones to tablets, has accelerated demand for continuous connectivity to business applications. This has created the need for catering to the widely networked environment.  Organizations thus need technology which can not only help in making them globally accessible but also ensure a faster response time with relation to application delivery and bus...

In an age of globalization,  technological evolution has enabled the corporate houses with multinational offices and workforce to stay connected. The success of  global corporate is dependent on high productivity levels of its  multinational workforce and is driven by the remote connectivity factor. However, with remote connectivity comes in  crucial factors such as a widely networked environment and secure access to all the vital business information.

In order to drive in corporate success t...

The changing business scenario with globalization playing a major role has made remote access an indispensable technology for the millions of mobile workforce. Technological innovations enabling the access to the internet through various means besides the traditional personal computers have created a demand for development of various remote access tools.

The ability to access the internet or the corporate network from a number of new age hand held devices such as the iPads, notebooks, lap...

Businesses are seeking the latest technology innovations to meet employees’ need for instant access to information from anywhere as the workforce is becoming increasingly mobile and geographically distributed. With the flexibility of retrieving work from any remote location, employees have become more efficient.

As most of the data and applications reside in many places, like stored in a datacenter or, more commonly, on an employee’s desktop, it becomes necessary to ensure that the emplo...

IT infrastructure plays an important part in the success of any organization. With network servers being used to host ERP, the e-business infrastructure is estimated to provide high performance, scalable solutions to support all applications at all times. In many instances the availability of these applications are vulnerable to network overloads as well as to server and application failures. Being a widely adopted solution, server load balancing, deals with all performance and availability ...