Cloud adoption draw F5’s attention

Certeon rolls out WAN replication ; A better idea for WOC proof-of-concept Network Optimization Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by IBM Podcasts: Optimize your IT Infrastructure Companies with a flexible IT infrastructure credit their success to an ability to adapt to change. Listen to find new ways to help lower IT complexity and improve operating efficiency in your company. Click to continue Spotlight Story Cloud adoption draw F5's attention There's no shortage of chatter about cloud computing. Everyone is talking about it, including application delivery vendors that have ideas about how to improve application performance and availability in a cloud environment. Read full story Related News: Certeon rolls out WAN replication WAN acceleration vendor Certeon this week is rolling out new software functionality that lets users protect the data on their networks by replicating it over the wide area network. 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