6NOVEMBER 2016Copyright © 2016 ValleyMedia Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.NOVEMBER - 30 - 2016Mailing AddressValleyMedia Inc.44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510 230 0396, F:510-894-8405 November - 30 - 2016, volume 02 - Issue 08 Published by ValleyMedia Inc. To subscribe to Enterprise Networking MagVisit www.enterprisenetworkingmag.com Editor-in-ChiefLena HeadeyEditorial StaffSalesAaron PierceAlex D'SouzaAva GarciaVisualizerIssac GeorgeWAN OPTIMIZATION SPECIALJake Tyler jake@enterprisenetworkingmag.comEditorialLena Headey Editor-in-ChiefThe Performance OptimizationWANs are tasked to facilitate optimal application performance and support the increasingly distributed workforce and enterprise operations today. But the dynamically changing IT environments, along with growth of users and applications, and the advent of cloud, mobility and big data technologies have placed an increased pressure on WAN performance. The businesses are necessitated to either buy greater bandwidth or use exploit the full potential of existing WANs through optimization, where the latter seems to be more attractive option. Traditionally, WAN optimization, which incurred high initial investments and deployment complexities, was mostly implemented by large enterprises. However, the current on demand cloud based WAN optimization solutions are changing this scenario. Offered as WAN Optimization as a Service, these solutions enable companies of all sizes benefit from the accelerated access to enterprise or cloud-hosted applications. There are a slew of other interesting developments happening in the WAN optimization arena. As legacy boundaries of an enterprise no longer exists, and internet is increasingly playing an important role in how remote users access applications, enterprises are readily adopting Software Defined WAN (SDWAN). It is a logical progression from the WAN optimization technology that was built to understand WAN and support dynamic traffic loads. SDWAN taps into all the available resources, including the inexpensive public internet, and private web to uncover biggest gains out of network investments. Organizations today are bent on opting WAN optimization gear that best fit their needs, a solution that can be used for longer periods of time. An ideal WAN optimization solution should allow the network administrator to prioritize traffic and always guarantee a certain amount of bandwidth to mission critical applications. The solutions should do more than just queuing the bad traffic, it should block the unwanted traffic, give priority to certain servers, and inculcate security strategies. The WAN optimization solutions landscape is dynamic and replete with options. Our goal with this special edition is to help the enterprises find best-of-breed WAN optimization solution providers who can unleash the network potential and sustain uninterrupted business operations. This edition blends thought-leadership from subject matter experts with real stories on what selected vendors are doing for their clients, including exclusive insights from CIOs and CXOs. Let us know what you think.Jade RayJoshua ParkerSyeda Tina Tabin
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