Gartner: Key trends that should be driving the application acceleration market

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
10/20/05
Today's focus: Gartner: Key trends that should be driving the
application acceleration market

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Today's focus: Gartner: Key trends that should be driving the
application acceleration market

By Denise Dubie

Distributed networks are forcing enterprise IT shops to consider
how application acceleration technologies will help them become
more global in nature while still delivering applications to end
users as though they were local. At least according to one
industry watcher recently polled on the topic.

Juniper Networks recently sponsored a bit of research in
conjunction with Gartner, which hashes out the challenges facing
enterprise IT managers and perhaps the answers companies such as
Juniper could provide as a result of its acquisitions of Peribit
and Redline Networks
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0426junibuy.html?rl>.

In a recent Juniper Networks Webletter, Gartner Analyst Joe
Skorupa addressed questions surrounding application
acceleration. According to his responses, companies are relying
more on branch offices and delivering applications via a browser
rather than supporting client-server technologies in each
location.

"Enterprises are moving toward secure delivery with VPN-based
encrypted access, whether people are located inside or external
to the company," Skorupa said during this Q&A. "There's a strong
push to centralize servers and consolidate data centers
<http://www.networkworld.com/careers/2005/100305man.html?rl> -
to pull servers and persistent data storage out of branch
offices and centralize them in a small number of corporate data
centers."

According to Skorupa, the key trends that should be driving the
application acceleration market today involve consolidation of a
different sort: technologies used to accelerate apps and
optimize WANs need to be available in fewer products from fewer
vendors.

"Point products are developed to solve a particular problem and
are deployed as point solutions," Skorupa said. "Today, these
technologies are being integrated, and through this integration,
we get better performance, lower costs, ease of management, the
ability to make the functions operate in a cooperative manner
rather than fighting against each other."

What do you think? Are you waiting for more consolidated tools
to invest in application acceleration? Do you think you should
stick with the innovators in the market? Do you want to see your
point product vendor incorporate more capabilities into their
gear? Or are you hoping that your point product vendor gets
acquired by the Junipers and Ciscos of the world? Let me know
your thoughts at <mailto:ddubie@nww.com>

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To contact: Denise Dubie

Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management
for Network World. Reach her at <mailto:ddubie@nww.com>.
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