The Evolution of Federal IT Networks: Best Practices to Ensure Success

The demands of converged applications, geographically dispersed users, and OMB mandates (IPV6) have dictated technology upgrades to current Federal IT infrastructures. The complex interaction of all of these elements and their impact on network performance make it impossible to reliably predict successful delivery of services to all users.

Pre-deployment testing of systems and applications under real world scenarios mitigate this risk and ensure a higher degree of continuity of operations and end user satisfaction. An efficient and repeatable methodology must be leveraged to evaluate and validate potential solutions and to insure the best possible return on investments.

This overview will address the unique value proposition provided in the creation and operation of persistent lab environments dedicated to pre-deployment application testing. It will also incorporate both the potential hardware configurations and specific applications driven under load through real world network link performance. Read the Whitepaper

Application Performance Management Report (Aberdeen Group)

This report examines best practices for managing application performance. The report findings serve as a guideline to organizations looking to improve the performance of their business critical applications.Read the Whitepaper

Benchmark Report: Optimizing WAN for Application Acceleration

This report is a roadmap for organizations that desire to achieve those goals through Best-in-Class use of technology solutions for WAN optimization and application acceleration. Read the Whitepaper

The Real Value of Network Visibility

This report is a roadmap for organizations that are striving to accomplish their business goals by deploying capabilities and deployment technology solutions for network monitoring, analytics, and simulation. Read the Whitepaper

Understanding the Impact of Running WAN Emulation with Load Testing

This Whitepaper describes the importance of assessing network impact on application performance and the value that is obtained by integrating WAN emulation into load testing. Read the Whitepaper

Why Every Development Team Needs WAN Emulation

This Whitepaper describes how WAN emulation is indispensable for optimizing development in an increasingly networked world. And it enumerates the specific benefits being realized by companies that have already incorporated WAN emulation into their end-to end development and QA processes.Read the Whitepaper

Managing Application Performance by Understanding Applications

IT organizations are considering application delivery from new perspectives due to the automation of key business processes, and the fact that acceptable application performance is continually becoming more difficult. This paper identifies some of the key issues that make ensuring acceptable application performance so difficult. And describes how IT organizations can use WAN emulation tools to improve the performance of applications, plan for change and improve the relationship between the application groups and the network group.Read the Whitepaper

Network Simulation and Emulation: Best-in-Class Approaches for Dealing with Network Complexity

This Research Brief compares the network and application performance of two types of organizations from Aberdeen’s survey: those that have solutions for replicating network and application performance in the preproduction stage, and those that do not.Read the Whitepaper

Predicting the Impact of Data Center Moves on Application Performance

Moving and/or consolidating a data center is a risky business. In fact, 20-40% of applications fail to meet service level objectives after such a move. This paper shows you how to avoid the pitfalls and predict potential application and network related performance issues.Read the Whitepaper

Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI

As businesses become increasingly dependent on the effective delivery of IT services over far-flung enterprise networks, technologies that optimize the performance of applications over the WAN have become increasingly attractive. In fact, this type of technology may be indispensable for companies operating on a global scale.

WAN optimization can ensure that remote users around the world have ready access to critical applications and services. But it’s important to acquire the right solution for the job. This white paper outlines the principles and practices that will ensure that you do so. Read the Whitepaper

No Weak Links: Mitigating Network-Related Risk Factors in Military Applications

While the pre-deployment testing of critical applications in a virtual network environment is a best practice for any IT organization, military developers and planners face a particular set of challenges in discovering and eliminating performance-related risks. Ensure that applications run properly during critical operations through pre-deployment testing of your application and network systems on your emulated real world network. Read the Whitepaper

Take the Risk Out of VoIP Deployment and Ownership

This Whitepaper provides a best practices approach to help you effectively deliver the right VoIP solution for your network. It provides you with practical advice on how to ensure optimal voice quality to end-users, and fulfill service level objectives, and tips on how to guarantee that your VoIP platform will keep on performing well after the contract is delivered – while drastically reducing the risks associated with downtime and/or sub-standard call quality. Read the Whitepaper