Riverbed sets a course for the cloud

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Spotlight Story Riverbed sets a course for the cloud While many organizations are in the early stages of cloud computing adoption, Riverbed's intent is to keep advancing its optimization wares so that as enterprises get deeper into the cloud, they'll have WAN acceleration options to consider. Read full story Related News: Riverbed looks to speed cloud applications, storage Riverbed has a plan to accelerate applications and storage resources that are located in a cloud computing environment and delivered over the Internet to private data centers, distributed branch offices and mobile users. Cloud won't do for critical applications, SAP says SAP does not expect mission-critical applications to move to the cloud in the near future, the company's CTO says. Has the time come for Ethernet as a WAN service? For its entire existence as an entity, data networking has been a conglomeration of special interface and protocols that called for specialists. 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