Sponsor: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Speakers: Joe Skorupa, David Hughes
Type: Audio (25 minutes)
Data center consolidation, server centralization, desktop virtualization, and disaster recovery all have one thing in common – an increased emphasis on your Wide Area Network (WAN).
WAN performance is critical to the success or failure of these strategic projects. And WAN costs are a key factor in determining the return on investment (ROI) associated with these data center initiatives.
So how do you ensure you maintain optimal WAN performance to support these emerging enterprise IT initiatives and gain the maximum return on investment? Join two leading industry experts: Joe Skorupa, Research VP at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and David Hughes, CTO and Founder of Silver Peak Systems, Inc., for the answer to that question and more.
In this program, these experts will address the impact that WAN bandwidth, distance, and quality have on specific IT projects, they’ll discuss what it takes to support strategic data center initiatives, they’ll reveal the leading challenges to WAN optimization and, more importantly, show you ways to overcome those challenges.
You’ll also learn how leading enterprises like Google, VMware, and Autodesk are using WAN optimization to enable strategic data center consolidation, disaster recovery, server centralization, and virtual desktop infrastructure initiatives.
Additionally, you will hear these experts discuss:
- The latest computing trends that are being driven by data center and server consolidation
- The newest deployment models
- How the WAN optimization marketplace is being affected by the data center's increasing role in application delivery
- Where the WAN optimization products marketplace is heading over the next five years
- How WAN service offerings are adapting to meet the latest trends
- How WAN optimization technology is evolving to meet the latest trends
- Best practice recommendations for enterprises looking to deploy WAN optimization
The WAN plays an intrinsic role in emerging enterprise IT initiatives. Join the experts as they discuss ways of optimizing this critical piece of your network infrastructure. Go now.
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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.
