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From the editor

Improving application performance over the WAN has become an industry goal. That has an interesting array of vendors, from Cisco in its application-aware switches to Microsoft in its newest client operating system, mixing up special techniques aimed at ensuring application performance isn’t impacted by a trip from one company location to another. In this issue, the fourth installment of our six-part New Data Center series, we take a look at the latest trends and technologies targeted at alleviating application performance problems.
Beth Schultz

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Net optimization podcasts

Forrester Research’s Robert Whiteley and Yankee Group’s Zeus Kerravala debate the pros and cons of new WAN optimization approaches New!

AT&T's Manish Malhotra talks about modular VPN and other optimized network services. New!

Level 3’s Jeff Allen discusses the future of IP-based business services. New!

New Data Center voices

Network optimization, a weekly newsletter by Ann Bednarz, associate news editor.

New Data Center Strategies, a weekly newsletter from Andreas Antonopoulos and other analysts at Nemertes Research.

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