Sponsor: Riverbed Technology
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Joe Skorupa, Bob Gilbert
Type: Audio (24 minutes)
Government agencies around the world face a unique set of challenges as they depend on wide area networks (WANs) infrastructure, often in areas where bandwidth isn’t always readily available, to improve data security, improve application performance, deliver optimized throughput, and ensure the complete rollout of key applications. In addition, they need ways to optimize their bandwidth to avoid a WAN upgrade or get more data through their current WAN infrastructure.
Watch “WAN Optimization: Speed, Efficiency & Security for All”, an on-demand webcast available now and learn how organizations around the world are reducing costs and improving productivity across a variety of network environments.
Join a panel of experts that includes Bob Gilbert, Director of Marketing, Riverbed Technology and Joe Skorupa, Research Vice President, from Featured Analyst Firm, Gartner, Inc., as they break down the benefits that WAN optimization can provide for your organization, the criteria for an effective WAN optimization solution, and especially if it’s the right move for your organization.
Key Discussion Points:
- The Benefits of WAN Optimization
- WAN Optimization: Key Drivers
- Who Is Adopting WAN Optimization?
- WAN Optimization: Key Selection Criteria
- WAN Optimization: Security
- Are WAN Optimization & Security Compatible?
- WAN Optimization in Government
Organizations need to provide access to more data and more applications to more users in more disparate locations and all while not slowing down traffic or compromising security and for an ever-growing number of organizations, the answer to this dilemma is WAN optimization. Join your colleagues today for an important and timely discussion on “WAN Optimization: Speed, Efficiency & Security for All”.
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About Joe Skorupa
Joe Skorupa is a research vice president in Gartner Research, where he is part of the Communications Research unit. His research focuses on maximizing application performance via advanced networking technologies including Layer 4-7 switching, server offload, WAN optimization and Wide Area File Services (WAFS), ECDN and XML processing. Mr. Skorupa also advises vendors on product, market and partnership strategies. Through extensive collaboration, Mr. Skorupa's research extends to intersections between networking and adjacent research areas including storage, servers and data center optimization, covering topics including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE), I/O virtualization, and emerging branch office and data center architectures. Mr. Skorupa has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise, service provider and storage networking. He has held a variety of engineering, marketing and analyst roles at companies such as FORE Systems, Bytex, Motorola and RHK.
About Bob Gilbert
Bob joined Riverbed in early 2003 as the original member of Riverbed's product management team when he helped to draft the product requirements for the first version of Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead appliance product. In his role as Director of Marketing, Bob is responsible for empowering Riverbed's user ecosystem with community programs such as the Riverbed-sponsored online user forum at www.wdsforum.org and Riverbed's regional user groups (RVUG). Bob also hosts a monthly podcast at www.riverbedconnect.com and travels the globe speaking to the masses about the Wide-area Data Services market.
