Blue Coat White Paper Sample

Now is the time for organizations to take a close look at their WAN optimization systems and plans. They should:

• Evaluate new application requirements and performance to gauge the suitability of current WAN and optimization.
• Be prepared to upgrade, replace, or supplement current solutions for new use cases or traffic types.
• Expect an increase in real-time and fault-intolerant traffic, if not an increase in bandwidth.
• Optimize for the shift in traffic flows as a result of IT centralization and data center consolidation.
• Optimize for the shift of traffic associated with desktop virtualization.
• Control, monitor, secure, and optimize traffic with SaaS providers and other direct-to-Internet branch traffic.
• Plan on providing optimization and security to progressively more numerous and smaller endpoints: big branches become mini branches become teleworkers. Cheap hardware or robust, affordable soft clients are key.