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WAN Optimization Accelerates Application Performance

Philip Amalong — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:53:08 +0000

Faster application performance ensures that a business effectively renders quality services to its employees and customers. WAN optimization is essential to businesses that are using network applications at its headquarters to stay in touch with branches at remote locations through WAN. WAN optimization enhances the application performance by techniques like bandwidth management, caching, compression, and Protocol optimization and significantly accelerates application performance.

Benefits:
Improves Productivity
Slow speed of application performance really hampers the employee productivity and customer satisfaction. Use of WAN optimization techniques accelerates the applications over the WAN, speeds up the data transfer and reduces the end-user application response time. This in turn makes transactions faster thereby leveraging the employee productivity. WAN optimization reduces the time taken to complete repetitive operations and helps in increasing employee productivity.

The employees waiting for long time to get a transaction done or download a file can not give prompt service to the customers and it results in unsatisfactory customer experience. By eliminating the network problems and reduced throughput, the remote employees can access the network applications that are installed on other locations at a faster rate. Accelerating the applications over the WAN also helps the mobile workers making it easy for them to cater their services to consumers.

Reduces Bandwidth Cost
Using WAN optimization techniques like bandwidth management/QoS, caching, compression, and Protocol optimization can significantly reduce the usage of bandwidth which in turn pulls down the network costs.

In Bandwidth Management, limits are set on network applications as to how much bandwidth they can use. This ensures maximum utilization of existing bandwidth by critical applications without providing additional bandwidth, saving considerable amount of money.
In Caching, the copies of important files are stored in multiple locations. The users need not have to download these large files every time thereby reducing the bandwidth utilization.
Protocol optimization decreases the transmission delays thereby increasing overall speed of transmission and transaction response.
Compression techniques help to reduce size of the data thus saving time of transmission. Compression helps to send data in a faster way thus increasing reducing load on communication links.
Compression and caching together help keep the communications link uncongested and reduces queuing delays.

All these factors reduce bandwidth usage which in turn reduces cost. WAN optimization allows users to access WAN applications at speeds similar to a LAN.

WAN optimization accelerates application performance by eliminating issues like redundant file transmissions, chatty protocols, network latency, packet loss etc. WAN optimization ensures consolidation of IT infrastructure of the business at remote locations thereby ensuring higher productivity at remote offices. Using WAN optimization, the businesses can reduce remote office infrastructure cost by effectively centralizing applications, data storage, and server at data centers.

WAN optimization techniques increases transaction speed, improves productivity, and reduces bandwidth cost enabling businesses to be competitive and focus on newer markets. WAN optimization implementation helps businesses to get excellent ROI on their investments by reducing bandwidth costs and improving overall productivity.

Source: Apsera Tech, Inc

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Information Protection is the Highest IT Priority for SMBs: Symantec

Philip Amalong — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:38:06 +0000

According to Global SMB Information Protection Survey which was conducted by Applied Research on behalf of Symantec, small and medium sized Businesses are giving high priority to information security. The annual costs of cyber attacks against an average company is reaching £200,000.

The Symantec 2010 SMB Information Protection Survey was conducted on businesses who employed 10 and 499 people across EMEA. It showed that about 67 percent of businesses considered data loss to be an important risk to their firm. 60 percent of them expressed same for cyber attacks. 24 percent prioritized natural disasters.

SMBs are showing a lot of interest and investing on information protection. They have ranked data lost and cyber attacks as their top business risks which is ahead of traditional criminal activity, terrorism and natural disaster.
Now-a-days, SMBs are spending an average of $51,000 per year. IT staff in the SMBs are spending their time on computer security, recovery, backip and archiving and also are prepared for any disaster. About 87 percent of the SMBs are prepared for disaster.
SMBs are worried about loss of critical business information. About 74 percent of SMBs are extremely concerned about losing electronic information.
The main trouble that SMBs are facing is lost devices. SMBs think that cyber attacks are a big threat.

More Than Half SMB’s in UK Believe Software Security is not Important: Panda Security

Darrel Harminson — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:03:16 +0000

The small and medium-sized businesses are the largest users of free security software in UK. According to the annual international barometer of security in SMBs Panda Security, about 57 percent of these firms perceive that the security software is not important. About 17 percent of the firms have no idea whether their security system is in place or not. Moreover, about 14 percent of UK companies have outdated security systems and about 13 percent of the companies in UK do not have security system. The training for the employees on security continues to be low. About 46 percent of the companies in UK are not receiving any basic IT security training on how to avoid security threat. Many of the companies claimed that they have maintained the same amount of investment in security as last year and moreover 15 percent of the respondents in UK claimed that their they have increased their investments significantly on security measures.

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Surge In iPhone App Development Due To iPad

Richard Campbell — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:46:53 +0000

As per a new report from research company Flurry, the iPad’s success in the beginning could be estimated by the number of new applications which will support the platform. Flurry is an analytics company for mobile-app developers, which helps in tracking industry trends. Depending on the number of developers which have incorporated Flurry’s tracking code into their apps, the latest deviation in the market shows new application starts for the iPhone rushed, reaching extraordinary levels.

According to the data, January’s iPhone application starts nearly tripled those registered for December. This shows Flurry, is the greater piece in its tracking history on any mobile platform, with nearly 1,600 app starts.

Google’s Android mobile platform was terminating the gap on Apple’s iPhone OS, but improved interest in developing apps for the iPhone OS and stretched Apple into the lead again. Flurry said the reason for the surge is the iPad.

The tablet utilizes the same operating system as Apple’s popular smartphone, but the iPad is much bigger. Apple has set the device between a Netbook and the iPhone. The iPad comes with a 9.7-inch screen, with either Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and 3G.

Cyber-Smarty.Com Focuses On Creating Awareness About Online Security

Philip Amalong — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:41:10 +0000

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Cyber-smarty.com provides useful information on various aspects of Internet to create awareness about online safety and help people with their Internet queries.

Cyber-smarty.com started with a goal to educate people to protect themselves online. Its objective is to inform people across the globe about various online threats, online frauds, and other security issues. It also helps people to remain updated about latest malicious security threats and its prevention procedures online.

The information and tips at Cyber-smarty.com offers various counter measures to protect people from online frauds and precautions that need to be taken while doing activities online. Cyber-smarty.com specifically focuses on cyber crimes awareness, email spam awareness, secure downloading, online shopping etc to make readers aware of various online threats. The articles help people to protect their PCs and any sensitive information online.

As online vulnerabilities, data theft, and risks in many forms on Internet have increased, it is important to be secure and safe while remaining online. Cyber-smarty.com equips people against various internet vulnerabilities as internet is being used on a much wider scale for variety of uses like online banking, shopping, downloading etc. The continuous updates that are provided increase the knowledge of peoples about online security as various new kinds of threat have developed with advancements in Internet.

Cyber-smarty.com will continue to create cyber awareness about online security among that segment of people who actively use Internet to perform various activities. It plans to expand both the scope of topics and depth in covering various key aspects to increase people’s knowledge base to be smart online.

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Cyber-Smarty.com provides information on how to protect oneself while remaining online including dealing with online threats, online fraud and similar topics. It also provides information on new cyber threats and vulnerabilities. It provides cyber security tips/precautions to take while working with a computer and Internet. Essentially, helping people make smart choices on the Internet for their safety.

Artificial Intelligence Is Not Up To the Mark

Philip Milton — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:40:47 +0000

We have been expecting a lot from artificial intelligence since there were many big projects started with high budgets. Twenty-first century was the year where people of fiction stories expected to see flying cars and walking robots. But we are not yet ready with those things yet and don’t see them even within the span of next fifteen years. This is very disappointing.

Presently the artificial intelligence could reach to a certain stage with the innovation of projects like self-driving cars, mobile robot which picks up trash in offices, computer chess which defeated even the best human player, some video games, cross word puzzle solving computer, human age recognizing software, bomb diffusing robots, football playing robots, etc.

Still there are a lot of projects going on with artificial intelligence. But the most significant of them are very far away from completion. So we have to wait for the new gadgets with artificial intelligence to make our life easier.