Stories about: Packeteer

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Coffee with Computerworld: HP & the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre's Ross Horlyck 28 December, 2009 12:58

Ross Horlyck, has been part of some incredible events during his tenure at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour. As infrastructure manager, he oversees some of the biggest events in the country.
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Thiess data consolidation project passes half way mark 03 April, 2009 11:46

Australian mining, construction and services contractor Thiess has announced it is more than half way through an IT consolidation process that will see it centralise data from some 200 operational sites into a single data centre location.
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Five ways to bulk up your network for telecommuters 23 October, 2008 08:41

Whether they're in branch offices or home offices, workers are increasingly telecommuting instead of working in a traditional centralized office environment.
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Fortinet Announces Financial Milestones and New Board Member Appointments 18 September, 2008 16:00
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WAN optimization: Tactical or strategic or both? 25 July, 2008 10:20

As you may have suspected from some of my prior columns, I've found the product strategies in the WAN optimization market something of a puzzle.
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Four cool network optimization startups 17 June, 2008 09:51

When Rich De Brino agreed to let a start-up come on-site and demonstrate how its technology could optimize video applications by aggregating multiple network connections, he didn't make it easy on the vendor.
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WAN accelerator breaks the Gig barrier 21 May, 2008 07:09

Silver Peak has launched what it claimed is the biggest WAN accelerator ever - a box able to optimize, de-duplicate, compress and encrypt 1Gbit/s of WAN traffic.
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More skirmishing breaks out on the AutoCAD front 09 May, 2008 12:04

Just when it seemed as if a truce might be feasible, fighting has flared up again in the battle between the WAN optimisation vendors over just who can - or can't - accelerate the latest AutoCAD format for drawing files.
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Blue Coat to acquire Packeteer for $US268 million 22 April, 2008 07:20

Security and wide-area network acceleration company Blue Coat Systems has made a deal to buy Packeteer, a longtime WAN optimisation vendor, for about $US268 million.
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Packeteer iShaper is the new king of CIFS 04 April, 2008 19:53

Network admins have spent many a late night trying to figure out how to improve application response or file replication across the WAN. Faster performance is all about bigger pipes, right?
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What ever happened to network management? 05 March, 2008 11:23

Enterprise Management Associates is back again after a year of absence, this time on a monthly basis. We've really missed your dialog and comments, and hopefully we've been missed as well. As before, this column will focus on network management trends as they fit into the bigger IT management landscape - focusing from time to time on application performance, or SLM versus BSM, or new approaches to asset management, or trends like CMDB adoption as they may affect the NOC.