Application Acceleration

Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization

Application acceleration is a key benefit of WAN Optimization. The value of the IT infrastructure is measured in terms of the availability and responsiveness of applications used to do the work of the business. End users are increasingly accessing their applications remotely over the WAN. WAN optimization is needed in order to give users a LAN-like experience across the WAN. WAN optimization may delay the need to increase bandwidth. Application acceleration technologies such as protocol optimization, byte caching and compression will ensure application responsiveness while controlling costs. WAN optimization and the ever increasing demand for IT services require a new kind of awareness. The service or application delivered over IT assets must now be monitored for availability along with the status of those assets. The availability of applications that are not fully network ready, for example, can mean problems for end users not related to the network infrastructure but still the responsibility of IT.

Drivers for Application Acceleration
Business Factors A prevailing need to accelerate the business Computing resources are being centralized Users are becoming de-centralized	Application Factors Many legacy application factors not designed for WAN. Traffic volumes are steadily rising. Inefficient Web protocols are proliferating. New applications are complex and increasingly sensitive to latency.

  Mark Bouchard, analyst for Missing Link Security in a white paper for Blue Coat

JDL Technologies and Application Acceleration
As a Blue Coat partner, JDL can also help businesses monitor and assess application performance. Blue Coat enables application performance acceleration through video stream splitting, caching and compression technologies. JDL’s experience with integrating products into large IT environments will help assure that Blue Coat inter-operates successfully and is optimized for efficient operation over the WAN and other systems in the environment. Blue Coat supplies the technologies for WAN Optimization and JDL ensures that they work as promised.

Application Acceleration Services from JDL’s Integration of Blue Coat
JDL partners with Blue Coat to provide application acceleration through WAN Optimization. The JDL services include:

• Planning and integrating Blue Coat devices
• Monitoring and maintaining Blue Coat systems to quantify optimization and ensure maximum benefit from the Blue Coat investment
• Addressing and ensuring application availability during peak periods of traffic
• Implementing Blue Coat caching for high bandwidth content such as video
• Accelerating key applications while maintaining control of non-critical applications

Contact JDL for information on costs and benefits of WAN Optimization.