For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals (Length: 11 pages)

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

As enterprises look to deploy distributed applications, consolidate IT infrastructure, and improve business continuity, a problem arises: application performance bottlenecks on the network. To combat this, we recommend that firms deploy application acceleration technologies which minimize network latency and increase throughput. To get started, firms must first understand the different usage scenarios, decide between symmetric and asymmetric solutions, and apply due diligence to ensure that the problem is architected correctly; otherwise, reactionary deployments will lead to point products that will quickly obsolesce.