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		<title>OPNET goes Virtual on the Riverbed RSP - What the hell does that mean for you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Network Monitoring &amp; Application Performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The thing I love about working in the IT industry is that just when I think I have the answer for one of my customer’s current challenges – they come up with another question that spurs me into action to find the best solution for them.
Recently, IT professionals like yourself have asked me:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The thing I love about working in the IT industry is that just when I think I have the answer for one of my customer’s current challenges – they come up with another question that spurs me into action to find the best solution for them.</p>
<p><strong>Recently, IT professionals like yourself have asked me:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Can we improve our end to end application performance?</li>
<li>Can I get real-time information on 	our application performance levels?</li>
<li>Can I do this without deploying boxes all over the place?</li>
</ol>
<p> </p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve dreamed about having this kind of information at your finger tips.  Trust me, I&#8217;ve been dreaming about the day when someone could deliver this kind of solution for my customers for years.  The world of basic SNMP monitoring just doesn&#8217;t cut it these days.  We need better information in real-time that can help us resolve network and application issues&#8230;FAST!</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Ok, I know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>&#8220;Justin, get to it already, how is OPNET different, how can I leverage this to help me when the economy is putting pressure on every bottom line and IT budget out there?&#8221;</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Let&#8217;s dive into it&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>First, if you don&#8217;t yet own Riverbed Steelhead appliances, this is another great reason to consider them in your environment.  If you already own Steelheads, then this should get your attention.  Time to leverage the investment you already made.  Ok, let me get the corporate jargon out of the way.  This should give you a quick idea of what ACE Live can do:</p>
<p>&#8220;OPNET&#8217;s ACE Live provides monitoring, measurement, and detection of application performance violations. It supports complete visibility and reporting of all transactions and users, with detailed real-time and historical information about end-user response times, utilization, route quality, and ISP performance. ACE Live on RIverbed&#8217;s RSP allows you to make the most of your accelerated WAN environment by monitoring application response time to ensure end user performance meets business requirements. RSP customers will be able to continuously monitor end-to-end application performance over the WAN, automatically baseline performance and receive alarms when thresholds are violated, and quantify the bandwidth reduction realized from Steelhead appliance deployments.&#8221;</p>
<ul>
<li>Continuously monitor applications and the end-user experience</li>
<li>Automatically baseline and alarm on threshold violations</li>
<li>Evaluate and quantify benefits from Steelhead appliances</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center; "> </p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 358px"><img title="Anaylze Riverbed Accelerated Applications" src="  http://www.opnet.com/solutions/application_performance/images/riverbed_clip_image002.gif" alt="Anaylze Riverbed Accelerated Applications" width="348" height="232" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Anaylze Riverbed Accelerated Applications</p></div>
<p> </p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 471px"><img title="Continuously Monitor Applications and End User Performance" src="http://www.opnet.com/solutions/application_performance/images/riverbed_clip_image002_0000.jpg" alt="Continuously Monitor Applications and End User Performance" width="461" height="251" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Continuously Monitor Applications and End User Performance</p></div>
<p> </p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 424px"><img title="Automatically Baseline and Alarm on Threshold Violations" src="http://www.opnet.com/solutions/application_performance/images/riverbed_clip_image004.jpg" alt="Automatically Baseline and Alarm on Threshold Violations" width="414" height="126" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Automatically Baseline and Alarm on Threshold Violations</p></div>
<p> </p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 435px"><img title="Monitor and Visualize the benefits of Riverbed Steelhead Appliances" src="http://www.opnet.com/solutions/application_performance/images/riverbed_clip_image006.jpg" alt="Monitor and Visualize the benefits of Riverbed Steelhead Appliances" width="425" height="281" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Monitor and Visualize the benefits of Riverbed Steelhead Appliances</p></div>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Basically, this is network and application monitoring on steriods!</strong>  </p>
<p>Also, what I love about the OPNET solution is that you don&#8217;t always need to deploy it at every location.  In many cases, you only need one appliance at corporate and a couple of Riverbed RSP ACE Live Rovers to get the information you need to make a BIG impact on end user experience.  Oh yeah, and we haven&#8217;t even begun to talk about the real special sauce that OPNET has to show you&#8230;</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Drop the ACE Live data into ACE Analyst and watch magic happen!</strong></p>
<p>Ok.  Here&#8217;s where things get very interesting&#8230;ACE Analyst provides deep level troubleshooting to determine the root-cause of a slow performing application. With ACE Analyst, IT is able to provide a rapid resolution to performance problems by focusing their attention on the server or application causing the performance issue.</p>
<p><strong>ACE Analyst:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Identifies slow servers</li>
<li>Diagnoses “chatty”applications</li>
<li>Troubleshoots misconfigured Steelhead appliances</li>
<li>Proves “It’s not the network!”</li>
</ul>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.opnet.com/solutions/application_performance/images/ace_responsetime.gif" target="_blank"><img title="ACE Analyst Quickly Tells You Where The Response Time Issues Are" src="http://www.opnet.com/solutions/application_performance/images/ace2.gif" alt="ACE Analyst Quickly Tells You Where The Response Time Issues Are" width="225" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">ACE Analyst Quickly Tells You Where The Response Time Issues Are</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.opnet.com/solutions/application_performance/images/ace_validate.gif" target="_blank"><img title="Evaluate the impact on response times of changes to key network parameters." src="http://www.opnet.com/solutions/application_performance/images/ace3.gif" alt="Evaluate the impact on response times of changes to key network parameters." width="225" height="197" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Evaluate the impact on response times of changes to key network parameters.</p></div>
</div>
<p>The power of ACE Analyst is hard to describe in words.  To truly understand the impact of ACE Live and ACE Analyst, I HIGHLY recommend you contact me to get a free Webex or onsite demonstration to see this stuff in action.   Let me show you how you can make a HUGE positive impact to the business while simplifying your network management duties.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Shoot me an email for a FREE demonstration of ACE Live and ACE Analyst&#8230;you won&#8217;t be disappointed!</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:justinl@tredent.com">justinl@tredent.com</a></p>
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		<title>VMware ESXi Hypervisor Now FREE - Server Virtualization Made Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With VMware recently announcing that VMware ESXi virtualization software is now free to the world, I thought I would put together a few videos for you so you can learn how to get started with VMware and start virtualizing your server infrastructure.  I know that some people have been hesitant to virtualize their server [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With VMware recently announcing that VMware ESXi virtualization software is now free to the world, I thought I would put together a few videos for you so you can learn how to get started with VMware and start virtualizing your server infrastructure.  I know that some people have been hesitant to virtualize their server environment because they didn&#8217;t know how to begin or what it takes to get a high performance virtualized environment up and running.</p>
<p><strong>In the first video we will review why VMware is giving away their ESXi server virtualization platform&#8230;</strong></p>
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<p><strong>In the video #2, we will review what hardware is necessary to get started with VMware ESXi and how easy it is to begin installing VMware server virualization&#8230;</strong></p>
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<p><strong>In video #3, we continue with installing your actual virtual servers on top of VMware ESXi virtualization software&#8230; </strong></p>
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<h4>Get Started With VMware ESXi Server Virtualization Today!</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/login.php?eval=esxi&amp;t=1" target="_blank">Download VMware ESXi Hypervisor for FREE </a></strong></p>
<p>Click here for more information about <a href="http://www.tredent.com/vmware/server-virtualization-software.php" target="_blank">VMware Server Virtualization</a> Solutions</p>
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		<title>Compellent changes Storage Area Networks forever with Storage Center</title>
		<link>http://www.tredent.com/blog/compellent-changes-storage-area-networks-forever-with-storage-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Storage Area Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   The storage industry is a crazy arena these days.  Trying to understand the difference between the storage area network solutions on the market can be very difficult, especially when the features and benefits are being marketed by the vendors themselves.  As you know, what vendors tells us always has to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.compellent.com/images/logo.jpg" alt="Compellent logo" width="67" height="40" />   The storage industry is a crazy arena these days.  Trying to understand the difference between the storage area network solutions on the market can be very difficult, especially when the features and benefits are being marketed by the vendors themselves.  As you know, what vendors tells us always has to be taken with the grain of salt, as much of the time their sole intent is to confuse and delay you from buying a competitor&#8217;s solution.</p>
<p>The storage game is now a $23 billion dollar industry and it is growing rapidly.  For many of the &#8220;good ole boys&#8221; its been easy for them to sit back and enjoy the ride with little innovation necessary.  Today, the lion&#8217;s share (60%) of the storage market is held by 4 players&#8230;</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://www.tredent.com/4logos.jpg" alt="HP, Hitachi, EMC, IBM" width="432" height="60" /></p>
<p>All are good vendors with solid reputations and very good products.  These &#8220;good ole boy&#8221; vendors are still delivering 2nd generation SAN technology.  It&#8217;s no secret, that each of them is working diligently to try and protect their lucrative domination of the storage industry.</p>
<p>The 3rd generation SANs began with the emergence of&#8230;</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://www.tredent.com/2logos.jpg" alt="3PAR, Equallogics" width="275" height="64" /></p>
<p>These more innovative solutions were completely blown away when Compellent&#8217;s Storage Center offering was revealed.  Compellent revolutionized the storage market with the first and only 4th generation SAN.</p>
<p>The game changer is Compellent&#8217;s ability to manage blocks.  That&#8217;s right, blocks.  The rest of the players manage drives.  They manage disk drives or spindles.  Compellent calls their technology Dynamic Block Architecture, and while it is excellent marketing gibberish, its also a great description of what is happening under the hood of Storage Center.  Are you with me?  Here, let me show you what I mean&#8230;watch the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) video below</p>
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<p>You want to run RAID 10 and RAID 5 on the same physical drives?  Only with Compellent is this possible.  Storage virtualization has arrived!</p>
<p>On Storage Center, we&#8217;re managing BLOCKS&#8230;NOT DRIVES.  Write whatever you want, wherever you want.</p>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>No More Managing RAID Sets</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>No More Managing Drives</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>No More Unused Space that can&#8217;t be moved<br />
</strong></em></li>
</ul>
<p>With Compellent you only have one gauge to manage&#8230;How much virtual disk space is used and how much virtual disk space is available.  Plain and Simple.  Need more space?  Just add more drives and they will be added to the available space, like a giant virtual drive.</p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>And that&#8217;s only just the beginning!  </strong></font></p>
<p>Watch the video below to learn how Compellent&#8217;s latest technology, &#8220;Fast Track&#8221;, takes SAN performance to a whole new level&#8230;</p>
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<p><strong>The bottom line&#8230;Compellent&#8217;s Storage Center technology is simply amazing! </strong></p>
<p>With&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Dynamic Block Architecture</strong></li>
<li><strong>Thin Provisioning</strong></li>
<li><strong>Boot from SAN</strong></li>
<li><strong>Continuous Snapshots</strong></li>
<li><strong>Virtualization</strong></li>
<li><strong>Automated Tiered Storage</strong></li>
<li><strong>and Fast Track</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">&#8230;it&#8217;s no wonder Compellent is quickly taking over the $23 billion dollar storage market.</font></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://www.compellent.com/~/media/com/Images/News_and_Events/Awards/InfoWorld_2008_150.ashx" alt="InfoWorld Award" width="150" height="112" /> <img src="http://www.compellent.com/~/media/com/Images/News_and_Events/Awards/IMW_BestPractices%20Award.ashx" alt="award1" width="150" height="101" />  <img src="http://www.compellent.com/~/media/com/Images/News_and_Events/Awards/ExcellenceWinner_logo_142x180.ashx" alt="award2" width="142" height="180" /> <img src="http://www.compellent.com/~/media/com/Images/News_and_Events/Awards/snw_150x121.ashx" alt="award3" width="150" height="121" /> <img src="http://www.compellent.com/~/media/com/Images/News_and_Events/Awards/EY_150x74.ashx" alt="ernest" width="150" height="74" />  <img src="http://www.compellent.com/~/media/com/Images/News_and_Events/Awards/green15.ashx" alt="InfoWorld Award2" width="150" height="112" /></p>
<p>All in all, you can see why Compellent has quickly become the industry standard for storage area networks and has made it a lot easier for organizations to afford, management, and deploy an effective data storage and disaster recovery solution.</p>
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		<title>Adaptive Private Networking - RAID for WANs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t you love to be able to lower your WAN costs, increase bandwidth significantly, create four 9s reliability, speed up applications and also run VoIP and video using cheap Internet connections, such as ADSL, Cable and fixed broadband wireless?
I know, the answer is a resounding&#8230;YES!
I have discovered a technology for you that will achieve, what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you love to be able to lower your WAN costs, increase bandwidth significantly, create four 9s reliability, speed up applications and also run VoIP and video using cheap Internet connections, such as ADSL, Cable and fixed broadband wireless?</p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>I know, the answer is a resounding&#8230;YES!</strong></font></p>
<p>I have discovered a technology for you that will achieve, what I call:</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 14px">&#8220;The Holy Grail of Wide Area Networking&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m constantly sifting through new technology to find ones that truly have a huge impact on network environments.  When I do find one, I play devil&#8217;s advocate to find holes in the solution, reasons why its value might be minimized or ways that the solution will do more harm than good.  If the solution is able to get through this stage, it&#8217;s time to actually put the solution to the test.</p>
<p>Well, I did just that and I have a technology for you that completely blew me away when I saw it in action.  As you already know, this doesn&#8217;t happen very often in the IT world.  Sure, we&#8217;ve seen amazing technologies such as VMware and Riverbed make networks and applications far more efficient and manageable and that&#8217;s why we have both of those solutions as part of our portfolio at Tredent.</p>
<p>I believe that the technology in this video takes wide area networking to a whole new level. <strong>Watch the video below,</strong> then we will dive into a few of our test results and some specific scenarios where this solution could make a big impact.</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/xNLpTFLfrKQ" width="425" height="355" wmode="transparent"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xNLpTFLfrKQ" /></object></center><center> </center><center> </center><center> </center><center> </center>Ok, now that you&#8217;ve got the general idea, let&#8217;s dive into some of our tests so you can understand the impact of this ground breaking technology.</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 14px">Let me set the stage for you&#8230;</strong>We tested the solution with varying types of WAN links, emulation factors and other devices in the mix to really see if we could break the technology and to truly see where it can help network environments.</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 14px">Here is the setup&#8230;</strong>We used an Apposite Linktropy WAN emulation appliance to simulate the 2 routers in the diagram below.  Luckily, the Talari T700 appliances were amazingly simple to install and configure, so it didn&#8217;t take us very long to set up our lab environment.</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.tredent.com/talari-networks/images/talari-diagram.jpg" /></p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<h2><strong>Lab Test #1<br />
</strong></h2>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Step 1</strong></font> - We transfered (CIFS) a 34mb executable file (.exe) from the server to the PC.  We had the Talari T700s and the Riverbed Steelhead appliances turned off (<font color="#000000">they both fail to wire</font>) - <font color="#333399"><strong style="font-size: 14px">The transfer time was 15 minutes and 27 seconds</strong></font></p>
<p align="left">We deleted the file on the PC and moved to step 2</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="border-top: 1px dotted #cccccc; border-bottom: 1px dotted #cccccc; padding: 10px; text-align: left; width: 440px; background-color: #ecf5f9"><font color="#000000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Step 2</strong></font> - We transfered the same 34mb exe file again from the server to the PC. We had the Talari T700s appliances turned off and the Riverbed Steelhead appliances on with a cleared data-store (no data has been seen by the Steelhead)<br />
<font color="#333399"><strong style="font-size: 14px">The transfer time was 13 minutes and 20 seconds</strong></font></p>
<p align="left">You see the slight reduction in transfer time because even with a cold transfer you get LZ compression (Lempel-Ziv) on the transfer.</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p><font color="#000000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Step 3</strong></font> - After deleting the file from the PC again we transfered the same 34mb exe file with the Talari T700s turned on and the Steelhead appliances on with a clean data-store (we cleared the data-store and restarted the appliances)<br />
<font color="#333399"><strong style="font-size: 14px">The transfer time was 5 minutes and 29 seconds </strong></font></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">That&#8217;s amazing&#8230; </strong></font></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 14px">Why?&#8230;This is not a WAN / application acceleration solution!</strong></p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="border-top: 1px dotted #cccccc; border-bottom: 1px dotted #cccccc; padding: 10px; text-align: left; width: 440px; background-color: #ecf5f9"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong style="font-size: 14px"><font color="#000000">Step 4</font> </strong></font>- With file deleted from PC again we transfered the same 34mb exe file.   This time we turned the Talari T700s off and we left the Steelhead data-store warm (seen the data already)<br />
<font color="#333399"><strong style="font-size: 14px">The transfer time was only 30 seconds</strong>.</font></p>
<p><strong><font color="#000000"> This is the magic of the Riverbed Steelhead appliances and the reason most IT professionals are doing everything they can to buy them for their network,</font></strong><font color="#800000"><strong style="font-size: 14px"> but it gets a lot better&#8230;</strong></font></p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p><font color="#000000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Step 5</strong></font> - Deleted file on PC.  Transfered 34mb exe again with both the Talari T700s and Steelhead appliances (warm data-store) on.<br />
<font color="#333399"><strong style="font-size: 14px">The transfer time was only 14 seconds!</strong></font></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">The Talari appliances cut the Riverbed warm transfer in half!</strong> </font></p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 18px">So why is this significant?</strong></p>
<p>When Steelhead appliances have already seen the data they are serving up the bits locally to the PC while receiving 16k data reference packets telling it which bits to serve up to the application (in this case CIFS).  This means that very little traffic is even traversing the WAN at all.  What&#8217;s happening is that the Talari T700s are optimizing (via its WAN parity algorithm over multiple links) the Steelhead to Steelhead traffic.</p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Essentially, its creating a ZERO loss network environment.</strong></font></p>
<p>Also, this was only one transmission.  Imagine the impact of this solution when you have 10, 50, 100 or even 1000 users in a production environment.  That&#8217;s powerful!</p>
<p><strong>The best part is that this is only one feature of the Talari solution.</strong></p>
<p>(We performed the same test on other file types to ensure that the results were similar as above and they were.)</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<h2><strong>Lab Test #2</strong></h2>
<p>As mentioned in the video above, Talari&#8217;s technology helps VoIP and Video traffic tremendously without the need for QoS or CoS over the WAN environment.</p>
<p><strong>With the test above we have already set the ground work for the second test.</strong></p>
<p>In this test we simply set up a VoIP call with the Steelheads and Talari&#8217;s turned OFF.  The call was experiencing the 5% packet loss across the 2 ADSL links.  (this is detrimental to voice calls, clipping etc).   This is common when trying to run voice over standard Internet connections.</p>
<p>At this point we turned on the 2 Talari T700s&#8230;</p>
<p><font color="#000000"><strong>After they booted up the loss on the links vanished!</strong> </font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">You are probably thinking what I was the first time a saw this in action&#8230;</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><strong>How the hell are they doing that?</strong></font></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Zero loss with UDP over cheap ADSL Internet links!  That is magic!</strong></font></p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 18px">Here is a small secret&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Talari is able to send duplicate UDP packets across multiple paths.  Then on the other end the first packet wins and the duplicate packet is dropped which creates a zero loss environment for VoIP and video traffic over these low cost Internet connections.</p>
<p><strong>Oh&#8230;and one other small piece of information I forgot to tell you.  We still had the Steelheads turned off and we were transferring the 34mb exe file during lab test #2.</strong></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong style="font-size: 14px">We have only touched the tip of the iceberg here&#8230;</strong></font></p>
<p>I would encourage you to take advantage of our FREE evaluation offering of the APN solution so we can really dive into this phenomenal technology so you can understand its tremendous impact to your network environment.  I can guarantee that you will not be disappointed!</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.tredent.com/talari-networks/free-30-day-evaluation.php" target="_blank">GET YOUR FREE EVALUATION NOW<br />
</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong style="font-size: 18px">Here are a few network scenarios that will get you thinking about how you can use this technology:  </strong></p>
<ul class="featuredlist_check2">
<li>Have MPLS in place and want to add cheap broadband connection for backup to your MPLS? (with Talari the back up is used all the time creating four 9s reliability)</li>
<li>Have MPLS in place and already have a backup connection?  Add Talari, make it active-active and now you have the bandwidth to add video or other applications that wouldn&#8217;t run across your current private links.</li>
<li>Already have a VPN environment and have not yet jumped into the MPLS boat?  Add another low cost Internet connection and now there is no need for MPLS to run your real-time traffic (VoIP and video)</li>
<li>At the end of your MPLS contract and looking for a way to get more bandwidth, more reliability at a much lower price point while still being able to run your real-time apps?</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>The scenarios go on and on&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Ok.  I could talk about this technology for a long time as you can tell already&#8230;LOL</p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">We are just scratching the surface.</font>  Imagine what this could do for applications like Citrix, RDP, database, internal web applications, etc!</strong></p>
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		<title>Tredent announces New Managed WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tredent Data Systems, Inc., the leader in wide area networking solutions, today announced that they have selected Riverbed&#8217;s Steelhead platform, a highly scalable WAN acceleration solution, for a new Managed WAN Acceleration Service or Solution as a Service (SaaS). Riverbed&#8217;s high-performance Steelhead platform enables Tredent&#8217;s professional services staff to fine-tune network performance to improve application [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tredent Data Systems, Inc., the leader in wide area networking solutions, today announced that they have selected <a href="/riverbed/steelhead-appliance.php" class="wiki">Riverbed&#8217;s Steelhead</a> platform, a highly scalable <strong><u>WAN acceleration</u></strong> solution, for a new <a href="/riverbed/managed-wan-optimization-application-acceleration-service.php" class="wiki">Managed WAN Acceleration Service</a> or Solution as a Service (SaaS). Riverbed&#8217;s high-performance Steelhead platform enables Tredent&#8217;s professional services staff to fine-tune network performance to <a href="http://www.tredent.com" class="wiki">improve application delivery</a> and reduce bottlenecks. Tredent&#8217;s new Managed WAN Acceleration Service, which relies on Riverbed&#8217;s Steelhead platform, can help distributed enterprises to accelerate application delivery over the WAN, leverage WAN investments and boost user productivity.</p>
<p>&#8220;We chose <a href="/riverbed/" class="wiki">Riverbed Technology&#8217;s</a> high-performance Steelhead platform for our Managed WAN Acceleration Service because it enhances application visibility and improves application response time and WAN efficiency,&#8221; said Charles Beck, vice president of sales at Tredent Data Systems, Inc. &#8220;Riverbed is helping us to deliver on our commitment to offer a world-class experience to our business customers. Their platform offers significant scalability which is enabling us to meet the needs of our multinational customers.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Steelhead platform improves application performance over the WAN by recognizing and eliminating redundant transmissions; accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols; prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth; and ensuring high application availability at locations with various WAN connections. The Steelhead <strong><u>application acceleration</u></strong> platforms work end-to-end with a multitude of applications, including Web-based (HTTP,HTTPS,FTP,SSL, etc), client-server (CIFS, MAPI, SQL, Oracle, Email), custom software, voice and video. The platforms also include a broad set of management tools for monitoring and reporting on <a href="http://www.tredent.com" class="wiki">WAN optimization</a> and <a href="/riverbed/application-acceleration.php" class="wiki">application acceleration</a> performance.</p>
<p>The new Managed WAN Acceleration Service (SaaS) offering will allow Tredent&#8217;s customers take advantage of the business enhancements that <a href="/riverbed/wan-acceleration.php" class="wiki">WAN optimization</a> and <a href="/riverbed/index.php" class="wiki">application acceleration</a> bring to corporate networks without having the huge capital outlay that normally comes with deploying an enterprise wide area network acceleration solution.  This approach is allowing more businesses to take advantage of <strong><u>WAN optimization</u></strong> technology in their environment while only needing to make low monthly payments during the term of the service.  &#8220;Most customers are choosing to make the term of the new Managed WAN Acceleration Service (SaaS) offering match that of their current WAN circuit contract so that they can make a decision on new technology or upgrades to existing technology when they are considering the renewal of their circuit contract&#8221; said Justin Lofton, senior systems engineer at Tredent Data Systems, Inc. - <a href="http://www.tredent.com">http://www.tredent.com</a></p>
<p>About Tredent Data Systems, Inc.</p>
<p>Tredent Data Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of systems integration solutions and services to medium and large business customers worldwide. Combining unsurpassed customer service with advanced technology and professional service capabilities, Tredent Data Systems, Inc. delivers innovative and unique business solutions to customers around the world. For more information, visit www.tredent.com.</p>
<p>About <a href="/riverbed/steelhead-appliance.php" class="wiki">Riverbed&#8217;s Steelhead Appliances</a></p>
<p>Riverbed&#8217;s WDS solutions enable organizations with more than one office to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor <a href="/riverbed/wan-acceleration.php" class="wiki">application performance</a> and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between distributed sites by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise data centers and remote offices, Riverbed&#8217;s award-winning <a href="/riverbed/steelhead-appliance.php" class="wiki">Steelhead WDS appliances</a> enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead appliances have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world&#8217;s largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart.</p>
<p>About Riverbed</p>
<p><a href="/riverbed/" class="wiki">Riverbed</a> Technology is the performance leader in <a href="/riverbed/" class="wiki">wide-area data services</a> (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq:RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.</p>
<p>Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.</p>
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<h4>Learn about WAN Acceleration: watch Jack’s story…</h4>
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		<title>10 Reasons why Businesses need to deploy WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions are <em>the</em> hottest topics in IT these days.  Many IT professionals are scrambling to get budget money approved to deploy these solutions in their environment as quickly as possible.  You too can take advantage of this  powerful, business enabling technology once you understand the driving reasons why this game changing  other IT professionals have to get their hands on these solutions.   <span style="color: black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>In this post, you and I will review some of the key reasons why most businesses need  to deploy a <a href="http://www.tredent.com">WAN <span style="color: black">O</span>ptimization</a> and <span style="color: black">WAN A</span>pplication <span style="color: black">A</span>cceleration <span style="color: black">S</span>olution quickly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><u>Here is the list</u>: </strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#1</span> - Server and Storage  Consolidation<br />
<span style="color: red">#2</span> - Disaster Recovery<br />
<span style="color: red">#3</span> - Reduce WAN Bandwidth</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: red">#4</span> - Backup Consolidation and Data  Replication<br />
<span style="color: red">#5</span> - Data Protection and  Regulatory Requirements</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: red">#6</span> - Increased  Productivity Gains<br />
<span style="color: red">#7</span> - Mobile Workers and  Traveling Executives<br />
<span style="color: red">#8</span> - Network Growth and  Management</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: red">#9</span> - IT Efficiency<br />
<span style="color: red">#10</span> - COST SAVINGS!</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><u>Now let&#8217;s dive into each one in more detail</u>:</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#1</span> Server &amp; Storage Consolidation</strong>  - It&#8217;s no secret that server sprawl and the <em>&#8220;never delete anything&#8221;</em> mindset is causing big headaches for IT professionals.  Many companies either already have, or are in the process of consolidating  servers and storage out of branch offices and into centralized data centers or  host locations using virtual machines and storage area networks (SANs). This  consolidation typically reduces cost and enables IT organizations to have better  control over the company’s data. While server and storage consolidation produces  many benefits, it can also produce some significant performance issues. Server  consolidation typically results in chatty protocols such as CIFS (Common  Internet File System), Exchange or NFS (Network File System), which were  designed to run over the LAN, running over the WAN. For most of our customers we  recommend that they deploy <a href="/riverbed/wan-accelerator.php" class="wiki">WAN accelerators</a> before beginning to consolidate the  server and storage environment so that end users do not have to deal with the  performance impact associated with centralizing servers and data.  At the end of the day  you are able to get control of server sprawl , control the ever growing storage needs  while simultaneously giving your end users LAN like application performance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#2</span> Disaster Recovery</strong> - <em>Have you deployed and tested a real DR strategy?</em>  Are you getting increased pressure from management to ensure resilient business continuity?  With the  growing importance of disaster recovery, businesses are relying heavily on  WAN-based backup and data replication to secure important files and data. Backup  and replication over the WAN ensures that data can be safely protected at a  distance to the primary site, but also introduces new performance challenges  that require companies to seek out methods that accelerate WAN backup  applications. Disaster recovery and business continuity strategies can improve  dramatically when businesses deploy a WAN <span style="color: black">A</span>cceleration solution. This allows for the use of  existing WAN bandwidth and allows IT to leverage an existing branch office as  their DR site, rather than resorting to expensive 3rd party disaster recovery  options. Now for the first time, even small organizations can leverage the combination of WAN acceleration, virtual servers<span style="color: black">,</span> and IP SANs to be prepared for the worst  scenario. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#3</span> Reduced WAN Bandwidth</strong> - <em>&#8220;We&#8217;ll just increase the bandwidth!&#8221;</em>  Ever made that statement?  Now you have another option that actually works.  Whether  it<span style="color: black">’s the </span>inability to upgrade bandwidth at a  few locations<span style="color: black">,</span> or just the sheer amount of  applications needed, there is a <span style="color: black">seemingly  </span>constant concern for managing bandwidth. By <a href="/riverbed/application-acceleration.php" class="wiki">accelerating application  performance</a><span style="color: black">,</span> and reducing bandwidth  utilization, WAN <span style="color: black">A</span>ccelerators enable the  delivery of applications despite bandwidth limitations. The magnitude of the  change is significant enough to change the end-user experience and also the  nature in which they work. With WAN <span style="color: black">A</span>ccelerators deployed you can reduce your current  WAN bandwidth by up to 95%. This allows for easy deployment of new applications  such as voice and video over IP. <span style="color: black">This can</span>  really an eye opener when you see it in action!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#4</span> Backup Consolidation and Data  Replication</strong> - <em>Does the thought of restoring corrupted data keep you up at night?</em>  For faster and more reliable access to protected data, backup  technology has moved beyond tape cartridges to spinning disk. Disk-to-disk and  more scalable volume management systems allow for low-latency data to be backed  up or restored in a fraction of the time required with tape. Data backup and  recovery windows with <a href="/riverbed/wan-acceleration.php" class="wiki">WAN acceleration</a> can go from 1 day to 2 hours. These  innovations open the way for IT organizations to build security and scalability  into their data protection architecture. Yet without the use of WAN acceleration  to extend these benefits to distant remote branches, centralized backup cannot  operate beyond the LAN without also creating congested pipes and soaring  bandwidth costs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#5</span> Data Protection and Regulatory  Requirements</strong> - <em>&#8220;SOX, SAS, PCI, and  FISMA - Calgon take me away!&#8221;</em>  Regulatory compliance  is forcing organizations  to increase the security and maintainability of data center passwords.  Customers report that by implementing the WAN <span style="color: black">Ac</span>celeration appliances, they are able to handle  data protection in a completely different way. Instead of having to risk the  loss <span style="color: black">and damage to </span>tapes <span style="color: black">and </span>with physical transportation to a backup  facility, they can automate the process over the wide area. Not only does it  save time, but it brings a new level of protection to sensitive company  information.  Keeping the auditors off your back!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#6</span> Increased Productivity</strong> - <em>&#8220;My computer is slow, can you make this program work faster?&#8221;</em>  WAN <span style="color: black">A</span>cceleration increases user productivity by speeding  the performance of applications between distributed sites and between remote  offices and enterprise data centers, allowing faster access to centrally located  applications and facilitating collaboration within a distributed workforce. The  appliances also have a number of features designed to optimize the work of IT.  IDC (a research firm) found recently that improved user productivity accounted  for the greatest benefits from deploying WAN <span style="color: black">Ac</span>celeration appliances. On average, users increased  their productive time by 7.4%, saving 10.6 hours annually. These savings  averaged $102,741 per 100 users per year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#7</span> Mobile Workers and Traveling  Executives</strong> - Companies are becoming increasingly distributed. We&#8217;ve found  that companies must support a large number of branch locations, outsourcing and  vendor relationships, and employees that are simply no longer in the traditional  headquarter location. As more and more users work outside of the traditional  office, the need for them to connect to the critical corporate applications with  <span style="color: black">“</span>LAN like<span style="color: black">”</span>  performance is overwhelming. <a href="/riverbed/steelhead-mobile-client.php" class="wiki">Mobile WAN <span style="color: black">Ac</span>celeration</a> is allowing more and more employees to  work in a productive manner outside of the standard office environment. A recent  survey found that 23 percent of American workers regularly do their jobs from  someplace besides the office, and that 62 percent of respondents who cannot work  off-site would like to. The survey also found that workers prized the ability to  telecommute more highly than stock options or on-site child care. This demand  will only continue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#8</span> Network Growth and Management</strong> - The  IT staff of most businesses has not really grown over the past 5 years, yet that  same staff is responsible for maintaining more and more network infrastructure  as the business grows and the bottom line becomes more reliant on that network.  With WAN <span style="color: black">Ac</span>celeration, the IT staff can  simplify the setup and management of new and existing branch offices as well as  set up regular reporting to easily keep track of the branch offices application  usage and available WAN bandwidth when the need to roll out a new application  presents itself. All of the WAN <span style="color: black">A</span>ccelerators  can be centrally managed and updated by the single WAN <span style="color: black">Ac</span>celeration management appliance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#9</span> IT Efficiency</strong> - In addition to  seeking to reduce costs and drive new revenue, organizations use WAN <span style="color: black">O</span>ptimization and <span style="color: black">A</span>pplication <span style="color: black">Ac</span>celeration Solutions to enable operational  efficiency. Reducing calls to the IT help desk is a very concrete benefit to the  IT organization in multiple ways. Also, IT can now quickly roll out new  applications across the enterprise without the application performance concerns  that have slowed the deployment of new apps in the past.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: red">#10</span> COST SAVINGS!</strong> - The Return on  Investment (ROI) <span style="color: black">can be</span> impressive and  immediate. Businesses save money immediately on the reduction in server  maintenance (and of course replacement costs since they are no longer present).  They avoid the costs of upgrading the WAN in an effort to increase performance,  the cost of a WAN link to a branch can easily be thousands of dollars per month.  Even the costs of backup and associated tapes and off-site media storage can be  very significant. Lastly, it allows the business to avoid making new  infrastructure purchases and reduces the need to hire new employees as the  business grows because productivity of the business&#8217;s existing staff has been  enhanced tremendously.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I hope this has been an informative review of the key reasons why you need to  deploy WAN optimization and application acceleration in your network  environment. -  <a href="http://www.tredent.com">http://www.tredent.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Justin Lofton - VP of Engineering</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riverbed’s WAN Acceleration Solution addresses Disaster Recovery, Security and Application Acceleration for Oracle 11i
Yesterday Riverbed announced the release of version 4.1 of their RiOS WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration software.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Riverbed’s WAN Acceleration Solution addresses Disaster Recovery, Security and Application Acceleration for Oracle 11i</p>
<p>Yesterday Riverbed announced the release of version 4.1 of their RiOS <a href="http://www.tredent.com" class="wiki">WAN Optimization</a> and <a href="/riverbed/application-acceleration.php" class="wiki">Application Acceleration</a> software.</p>
<p>This release is a huge move as the likes of Cisco, Juniper, Blue Coat, Silver Peak and many others chase Riverbed in the race to win businesses over with their WAN Acceleration solutions.</p>
<p>On top of the 4.1 RiOS release, Riverbed also released a new version of their flagship <a href="/riverbed/steelhead-appliance.php" class="wiki">Steelhead appliance</a>.  The Steelhead appliance, model 6120, is designed for large environments and data centers and is optimized for disaster recovery.</p>
<p>RiOS version 4.1 addresses many key areas that are vital to a reliable and secure network environment.  The 4.1 release adds support for Oracle 11i, data encryption as well as disaster recovery.</p>
<p>Oracle 11i <a href="/riverbed/application-acceleration.php" class="wiki">Application Optimization</a> - The release of RiOS 4.1 now addresses application specific optimization to Oracle Forms traffic, found throughout the Oracle E-Business Suite. Riverbed has applied new application acceleration techniques to Oracle’s JInitiator Web browser plug-in, RiOS 4.1 can now accelerate Oracle 11i applications that were built using Oracle Forms.  Some customers are seeing 90% data reduction in their Oracle 11i WAN traffic.</p>
<p>End-to-End IPSEC Security - RiOS 4.1 addresses the security requirements plaguing many businesses due to new compliance regulations.  Encryption standards supported include AES 128, 192, and 256-bit.  This combination of data security features gives Riverbed customers the industry’s only <a href="/riverbed/wan-acceleration.php" class="wiki">WAN Acceleration</a> solution that preserves end to end security.</p>
<p>The encrypt to disk functionality in the new release adds to Riverbed’s ability to accelerate SSL traffic across the wide area network without compromising the business’ security trust model, and its existing support for LAN to LAN IPSEC VPNs.  Beyond securing the data while it’s traversing the WAN, it also encrypts the data at the byte level while it resides on the Steelhead appliance.</p>
<p>Disaster Recovery Acceleration - RiOS 4.1 now includes optimization with a set of behavioral traffic recognition features that enable disaster recovery acceleration based on the size and type of the data being transferred. This dynamic acceleration is the industry’s first that automatically recognizes disaster recovery operations, such as data replication and backup jobs, to increase performance for large data transfers.</p>
<p>Steelhead Appliance 6120 - Riverbed’s new Steelhead appliance is designed for data center to data center or data center to DR (disaster recovery) location transfers, while being able to support acceleration for branch offices and mobile workers. The appliance has a raw capacity of 7 terabytes and a data store that is over 3 terabytes in size.  This capacity is double that of Riverbed’s currently available Steelhead appliance model. The RiOS 4.1 release and  Steelhead appliance 6120 work together to deliver benefits for disaster recovery operations. The new release performs more efficient reads of data on disk for replication and backup workloads. The new technology in RiOS 4.1 can absorb heavy loads, identify the traffic and accelerate the applications across the <a href="http://www.tredent.com">WAN</a> during critical disaster recovery procedures.</p>
<p>These innovations build on Tredent’s existing success deploying Riverbed’s Steelhead solutions for our customers.  We are having great success helping customers accelerate applications and <a href="/riverbed/wan-optimization.php" class="wiki">optimizing wan bandwidth</a> with our partnership with Riverbed.</p>
<p>Many customers are leveraging out <a href="/riverbed/managed-wan-optimization-application-acceleration-service.php" class="wiki">Managed WAN Optimization</a> &amp; Application Acceleration Service to reduce the capital expenditure for WAN Acceleration equipment, allowing them to take advantage of the technology without the upfront cost associated with purchasing any new technology.</p>
<p>More to come from Riverbed……I’ll keep you posted.</p>
<p>Justin Lofton<br />
Systems Engineer<br />
<a href="mailto:justinl@tredent.com">justinl@tredent.com</a><br />
Tredent Data Systems, Inc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tredent.com">http://www.tredent.com</a></p>
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