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...

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 ...

Today Tablets have almost taken over the consumer market and are expanding at a fast rate that it is estimated approximately 153 million consumer tablets would be sold in 2013. However, the question remains about the plausibility of the use of tablets within an enterprise. An enterprise and general consumers use tablets to cater to various functions.

Tablet access and work on the go 

Within an organization, the tablet devices are used 67 percent of the time working remotely. This indicat...

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...

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...

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...

Technological innovation and the growing customer demands have led to a fast rate of change within the mobile computing sector. With demands from users for easy access to their corporate network and data from locations beyond reach, has paved way for the use of smart phones and tablets as a business productivity tool.

Technological innovation and the growing customer demands have led to a fast rate of change within the mobile computing sector. With demands from users for easy access to thei...

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...

Mobility is the trend in today's business-centric enterprise. Innovations in information technology and the networked business environment along with the ever changing customer requirements have all paved way for a highly mobile work environment. Further, as the organizations have taken on a global route, providing the distantly located workforce with an anytime anywhere access to the all important business data and information ensures business continuity.

The anywhere anytime access to cri...

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...

Regardless of the fact, whether an organization has an e-commerce web portal or offers services that are based on the information offered through optimal application performance, web applications is essential for partners, employees and consumers. However, as soon as the user traffic spikes and the servers gets bogged down by compute-intensive SSL transactions, memory overloads, huge data file requests and hackers, third party intruders trying to flood servers, the application and site funct...

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...

Today a great percentage of employees are part of the mobile workforce and thanks to Virtual Private Network (VPN), they are able to access their company’s intranet portal even hundreds of miles away from the office. VPNs make it possible for the mobile workforce to access the company network securely. Simply put, a VPN is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet to allow secure access between the company network and the user’s machine by encryp...

With the IT advancements and changing work environment, most entrepreneurs think that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concept is going work better in the forthcoming days. This equipment is on its way of becoming a crucial aspect in most people’s life now. It is on the way an employee feels that he can best utilize his resources and contribute to productivity that gives him maximum satisfaction. Each employee has different parameters and set ups under which they work, hence their computing de...

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 i...

Globalization having paved way for business expansions to wider geographical locations, management of the worldwide workforce is a challenge faced by many of these organizations. To  be ahead of the competitors requires organizations to be devoid of business disruptions and drive enterprise productivity while being compliant to the regulations prevalent in the various locations. This can be done by empowering the mobile workforce by extending their  physical and  virtual desktop to a more  co...

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...

The advancement of technology has provided us with enormous opportunities and helped us achieve the impossible. The unimaginable losses incurred during the bygone days due to unexpected absence from work by employees or due to any natural catastrophes cannot be accounted for. If only remote access technology was discovered earlier these losses could have been averted with uninterrupted business continuity. The RDP technology could perhaps have saved the revenues of many organizations from pl...