WAN acceleration and optimization appears to be on the verge of a shift in architecture as new host-based and virtual technologies move in on the hardware appliance model that has dominated so far.
The movement got a kick-start earlier this month when Riverbed rolled out a cloud computing initiative that uses a new set of virtual WAN acceleration and iSCSI storage appliances. The technology uses largely the same protocol of the company’s flagship Steelhead appliance, except that instead of deploying in remote offices, the modules reside instead in public clouds like Amazon’s EC2.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, WAN Optimization: No Longer Strictly Hardware- Arthur Cole - ITBusinessedge.com