In Pictures: Top tools for WAN optimisation
Upstarts Exinda and Ipanema challenge network optimisation kingpin, Riverbed
Remember the launch of 3G and the ‘mobile internet’ hype? 5G is being loaded with similarly grandiose expectations. The Financial Times, not known for getting easily excited, has predicted it will be a “game changer for humanity”.
This was the year reality became virtual – and it shows no sign of being a passing fad.
Riverbed tacked three new software modules onto its SteelCentral network management product today, broadening the features already available through that framework.
Home building company Metricon has reduced storage volumes by 80 per cent and saved $28,000 on tape costs since it moved to a cloud storage offering in early 2014.
The "Internet of Things" promises to create new business models, improve business processes and reduce costs and risks, according to Riverbed.