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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Innovations in technology and computer based applications are no more extraordinary events in today’s fast developing world. Given the pace of new technological discoveries, it has become the order of the day. The main reason for this is the modern day evolving work culture that gives rise to new age work requirements. With ongoing changes companies have realized the importance to maintain a work life balance. Continuous research and development on how to achieve this end have made it poss...