Cost Effective Bandwidth
It’s all very well and good appreciating the cost, risk, and service benefits of drawing your data from satellite offices back into the datacentre, but how on earth do you get it there without upgrading all your communications links or compromising user service? The options seem pointless – spend a fortune upgrading bandwidth or disappoint your customers.
Central Control
This is what WAN acceleration technology has solved. WAN acceleration has optimised data movement and communication between remote locations across low bandwidth links and in doing so has enabled organisations to truly consolidate their physical and logical systems. This brings data under the control of datacentre protection and availability services which reduces risk and improves service, plus the economies of scale it enables saves money.
Traffic Management
WAN acceleration and optimisation can be achieved with a number of techniques such as eliminating redundant transmissions, caching, compression, de-duplication, prioritisation, and streamlining chatty protocols such as CIFS. Many of these techniques can be used simultaneously and together can have a dramatic impact upon the performance of backup, file services, thin client services, and virtual desktop infrastructure; they can also help avoid packet delivery issues common in shared WAN environments, like MPLS and Internet VPNs.
Supports Consolidation
WAN acceleration is now a well recognised practice for consolidation. It is being readily adopted by businesses across the globe seeking to virtualise services and applications at the network edge in order to reduce costs further. Using WAN acceleration and optimisation technology, enterprises can improve application performance across the network typically by 5 to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, and can simultaneously reduce WAN bandwidth utilization by 65% to 95%.
We Do It
Union has certified experts in the world’s leading WAN acceleration and optimisation technologies. Union can help you make the utopia of central datacentre control of otherwise globally distributed data a reality.