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I've been catching up on white papers, blogs and digests and a few things stand out.
Firstly, steady stream of data showing continued growth in teleworking. 5% of US Federal workers now telework, and the number is over 10% if you consider only those who are eligible to do it. Also 22% of Federal employees telework some of the time. No surprises there - people who telework are happier, more loyal, more flexible and tend to work more hours than expected rather than fewer (just don't ask how they're dressed, you probably don't want to know).
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I've been catching up on white papers, blogs and digests and a few things stand out.
Firstly, steady stream of data showing continued growth in teleworking. 5% of US Federal workers now telework, and the number is over 10% if you consider only those who are eligible to do it. Also 22% of Federal employees telework some of the time. No surprises there - people who telework are happier, more loyal, more flexible and tend to work more hours than expected rather than fewer (just don't ask how they're dressed, you probably don't want to know).
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Full View / NID: 37291 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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A few months ago I blogged on the phenomenon of "bufferbloat" which a growing number of network experts and commentators are flagging as a serious problem within network devices today.
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EMA, an industry analyst, has just released their EMA WAN Optimization Radar Report I listened to their webex yesterday and I've read the report and it's pretty interesting.
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Replify will be formally unveiling its CLAN technology at Internet World in May this year. The event, held at Earl's Court in London, hosts over 300 solution providers and 12,000 visitors, combining five shows in one event.
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Full View / NID: 37069 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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This week I'm spending a lot of time shuffling slowly forward in queues for ski-lifts and it has dawned on me that much of the behaviour of wide area networks (WANs) is paralleled in the world of skiing
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Full View / NID: 36996 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Just over 10 years ago I read an article on Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon in which he talked about focusing on making Amazon the most customer centric company.
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Full View / NID: 36953 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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We've recently done some work with a US customer experiencing exactly the problem we're focused on solving: individual remote workers who can't use the company's applications from outside the office.
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Amazon's results reveal that it is now selling more e-books than actual paperbacks. It looks as if it will soon be more than paperbacks and hardbacks combined. The book is soon to be extinct
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Full View / NID: 36472 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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I'm kicking myself for leaving out one further key characteristic of the ideal WAN Optimization technology for Cloud: Symmetry.
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Full View / NID: 36402 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Jeff Aaron from Silver Peak suggested in his comment to my last blog that individual WAN Optimization was of no real value. I've heard this view before, and sometimes from surprising quarters and from people who you might think would know better.
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Rackspace just announced a deal with Akamai to provide optimization for their cloud services. I simultaneously went "yay!" and "ouch!".
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Full View / NID: 36309 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Bob Cringely has posted an interesting article on his blog concerning a phenomenon called bufferbloat. It predicts dire consequences for the internet caused by the increasing amount of packet buffering in network devices, combined with larger and larger data transfers.
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Full View / NID: 36288 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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There is a long running radio game show here in the UK called "Just a minute" It's been going since 1967; contestants have to try to talk for 60 seconds on a topic set by the host without repetition, hesitation or deviation. It's an objective we can all strive for in our communication verbal, written and telecom...
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Full View / NID: 36083 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Does Santa use WAN Optimization to help provide an efficient present delivery at Christmas?
Maybe, but that's not what this blog post is about...
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Full View / NID: 36061 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Our partner Exinda has produced a very nice case study showing how Replify's WAN Optimization can radicalaly improve the user experience for a mobile workforce...
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Years ago I was interviewed for a job by a fiercely intelligent and rather colorful guy from the valley. He described himself as a sportscaster of IT and was fascinated by watching the industry and trying to call the plays...
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Recently I signed up for 50Mbps home broadband. It's an amazing amount of bandwidth. Only a little over ten years ago I was trying to work with channel-bonded ISDN at 128kbit/s...
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Currently we are going through a bit of a cold spell in the UK; heavy snowfalls resulting in travel chaos. This seems to be an annual occurrence - yet the chaos never goes away. During this time businesses are impacted severely as many employees can't get to work (or seemingly can't get to work), and end up trying to work from home...
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Full View / NID: 35886 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Microsoft referred to us as "visionary" at a recent cloud seminar. That's nice and we do have our moments; but right now I'm rather blurry...
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