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Using NetApp SnapMirror Async With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication

Many enterprises use NetApp SnapMirror Async for data protection, replication, and business continuance over a wide range of distances and transports. By copying only changed blocks, SnapMirror optimizes the use of network resources. Data ONTAP data deduplication can further reduce traffic by transmitting only nonredundant blocks in their entirety. Cisco...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Data Center, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Replication, Cisco Wide Area Application Services, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-10-24

Using Oracle Data Guard With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication

Oracle Data Guard is one of the most effective and comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solutions available for enterprise data. The solution offers protection for Oracle Databases, providing customers the ability to protect business data. Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS optimizes the performance of many different applications by...

Tags: Data Center, Oracle Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Replication, Oracle Data Guard, Cisco Wide Area Application Services, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-10-24

Cisco Wide Area Application Services: Secure, Scalable, and Simple Central Management

IT organizations are challenged with conflicting requirements: to consolidate costly remote-office infrastructure and to maintain adequate service levels for remote-office users. Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS provides the technologies necessary to consolidate infrastructure in the data center while also providing application acceleration and WAN optimization capabilities that achieve application...

Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., IT Organization, Cisco Wide Area Application Services

White papers 2007-08-01

Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimizations for Centralized E-Mail Services

Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS allows IT organizations to better simplify e-mail services infrastructure through consolidation and improve delivery of e mail services for services that are already centralized. The optimizations provided by Cisco WAAS provides dramatic throughput improvements for remote office users when accessing centralized e-mail servers accessed...

Tags: Optimization, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Wide Area Application Services, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers 2006-12-01

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) V4.0: Technical Overview

Enterprise organizations face numerous challenges to the delivery of applications and critical business data to the enterprise edge. As the global workforce continues to become more distributed, providing adequate service levels throughout the organization becomes increasingly difficult, causing IT organizations to deploy costly and difficult-to-manage infrastructure at each location, including...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Wide Area Application Services

White papers 2006-11-01

Cisco Wide Area Application Services Version 4.0 Optimizations for Citrix

Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS allows IT organizations to dramatically improve Citrix performance by optimizing Citrix client-server traffic over the WAN. Citrix allows IT organizations to centralize application deployment, processing, and management from remote-client workstations to a Citrix server farm located in one or more data centers. Each remote...

Tags: Optimization, Citrix Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Wide Area Application Services, WANs, Networking

White papers 2006-07-01

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Oil Services Firm Consolidates Servers, Simplifies IT With Branch Optimization Solution

Expro is a leading provider of oil-and-gas services and products. As the company expanded to 150 offices in 50 countries, its branch servers multiplied. Expro decided to centralize servers but needed to address the challenge of increased traffic on its Wide Area Network WAN and the productivity impact on field...

Tags: Network, Information Technology, Oil & Gas, Expro, WANs, Servers, Networking, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-01

CWAAS - Wide Area Application Services v2.0

View Available Dates and LocationsDiscover, design, and explain the business value of Wide Area Network WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies in this course. Design and deploy a solution using Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS that improves application performance over the WAN while enabling infrastructure consolidation. Learn to design...

Tags: Optimization, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Networking, Network Technology

Training 2009-02-01

Breaking the Application Bottleneck

Optimizing application performance today is critical. The attendee will learn how to improve application deployment times and deliver significant power savings in the data center with the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module. The presenter of this webcast shows how Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS can give the WAN...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc.

Webcasts 2009-01-15

Revolutionize Branch IT Services With Windows Server on WAAS

As branch offices grow in number and size to address new business opportunities, continuous and rapid access to critical applications and services is paramount. The challenge many businesses face is to address this need without increasing costs. The first solution of this kind, Windows Server on Wide Area Application Services...

Tags: IT Services, Microsoft Windows Server, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-09-30

VMware enlists Cisco to help supercharge virtualization

Now that virtualization has evolved into a proven data center solution, attention is turning to how to optimize it to improve performance and make it scalable to thousands of systems. In partnership with VMware, Cisco wants to play a major role in taking virtualization to the next level, and on...

Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Monsanto Enhances Collaboration With Cisco, Microsoft Technologies

Monsanto, one of the world's leading agricultural companies, takes advantage of team collaboration and ubiquitous access to corporate information in its global business processes. But aging technology was creating slow connections and frustrations for users who wanted to expedite the transfer of documents and other information. To boost productivity and...

Tags: Team, Bandwidth, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Monsanto, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-07-01

Survey: WiMax may have enterprise mojo; Unified communications interest (and confusion) abounds

There's interest among CIOs and technology executives to deploy WiMax and 57 percent of those surveyed are evaluating or piloting unified communications technology, but few have deployed it, according to a report from Forrester Research. The report, which examines the state of enterprise networks, has a few...

Tags: WiMAX, Unified Communications, Survey, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-16

WAN and Application Optimization: Enhancing the WAN Experience With Performance Routing and Wide Area Application Services

As applications are being centralized, users are becoming increasingly distributed, and as IT organizations are constantly challenged to deliver more services, such as rich content and video to the customers, the performance limitations of WAN, such as limited bandwidth, significantly longer latency, and packet loss, are seriously slowing down application...

Tags: Performance, Optimization, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-04-01

Accelerate Applications Using Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Mobile

Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS Mobile provides industry-leading application acceleration and Wide Area Network WAN optimization capabilities for networks and applications to make them work better for mobile enterprise users and telecommuters. With its thorough understanding of the application protocols needed to safely optimize communications, use of file caching...

Tags: Mobile, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Wide Area Application Services Mobile, WANs, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing

White papers 2008-01-01

WAAS - Wide Area Application Services v4.0.13

View Available Dates and Locations Discover the business value of WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies in this course. Learn to design a basic Wide Area Application Services WAAS deployment and configure and troubleshoot Wide Area Application Engine WAE devices, including WAN optimization and application acceleration...

Tags: Optimization, New York, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Networking

Training 2008-01-01

ICMI - Implementing A Cisco Multicast Infrastructure

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will learn how infrastructures are multicast enabled to support the efficiency of multicast business applications and services. Learn to identify Cisco products and protocols required to implement multicast solutions in both local and wide area networks within your...

Tags: Schaumburg, IP Multicast, Ottawa, Cisco Systems Inc., Global Knowledge, Chicago, Networking, Network Technology

Training 2008-01-01

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Egress Methods

Web Cache Communication Protocol Version 2 (WCCPv2) gives IT organizations mechanism to transparently intercept and redirect network traffic to a nearby network device, such as a Cisco Wide Area Application Engine WAE Appliances running Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS Software, for purposes of application acceleration and WAN optimization. By...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc.

White papers 2007-12-01

Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimization: Enhance IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Performance

Cisco WAAS is a multilayer application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that improves application performance over the WAN, thus enabling application and server centralization into fewer data centers. Cisco WAAS has demonstrated performance improvements of up to 5X for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. With higher WAN latency, Cisco WAAS shows...

Tags: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Performance, Optimization, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cisco WAAS, WANs, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-11-01

Enhancing the WAN Experience With PfR and WAAS

As applications are being centralized and users become increasingly distributed, the performance limitations of WAN such as limited bandwidth, significantly longer latency, and packet loss are seriously slowing down application delivery. Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS and Cisco Performance Routing PfR can work together to intelligently optimize application delivery...

Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2007-08-01