New Research from Aberdeen Group Reveals Best Practices in Optimizing WAN
Best-in-Class Organizations Reported More than One Thousand Percent Improvement in Response Times for Business Critical Applications and an Eighty-Seven Percent Improvement in Bandwidth Utilization
[USPRwire, Wed Nov 07 2007] Mazu Networks, the leading provider of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems, today announced that the Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE:HHS), published a new research report titled, “Optimizing WAN for Application Acceleration.” The report, sponsored by Mazu Networks, examines how organizations are monitoring, optimizing and controlling their WAN to streamline business processes, optimize networking costs and support new technology rollouts. In addition, the report highlights how deployment of technology solutions for WAN optimization and application acceleration enables Best-in-Class organizations to improve application performance and achieve cost savings.
The report revealed that 93 percent of respondents indicated that they need more visibility into and control over the performance of their networks. As organizations are leveraging bandwidth-intense applications, finding the balance between maximizing network and application performance and optimizing costs to operate and manage the network is becoming increasingly important. Eighty-seven percent of organizations reported that managing their networks has become more complex over the last two years.
“Most organizations make increasing bandwidth one of the first steps for increasing network capacity. Instead, organizations first need to develop capabilities to achieve full visibility into what is going on in the network so they can identify which applications consume bandwidth and detect potential bottlenecks,” said Bojan Simic, research analyst at Aberdeen Group. “This allows them to make educated decisions about the technologies they should use and the services they need to optimize. Without this critical first step, they may not be achieving the maximum increase in application performance. Technologies such as NBA help automate best-practice processes and provide this critical visibility into network performance and bandwidth consumption on WANs.”
Best-in-Class organizations are taking a lifecycle approach to deploying technology solutions to improve performance of applications running on their networks. These organizations are adopting strategies, developing internal capabilities and leveraging technology to optimize their WANs for application acceleration. This type of approach, which includes optimization, acceleration and control integrated with ongoing monitoring and analyzing, enables Best-in-Class organizations to achieve a superior performance when compared against their peers.
The research report indicates that Best-in-Class organizations reported a 1158 percent average improvement in response times for business critical applications and an 87 percent average improvement in bandwidth utilization. Additionally, 100 percent of Best-in-Class organizations reported decreases in WAN latency.
The report recommends that in order to achieve Best-in-Class performance, companies must:
• Develop capabilities for monitoring and analyzing performance of applications that are running on their WANs
• Use historical data to plan changes in bandwidth capacity
• Deploy technology solutions for shaping WAN traffic
• Develop controls to limit use of bandwidth for applications
“We are pleased to support the research efforts of such organizations as Aberdeen,” said Paul Brady, CEO of Mazu Networks. “Through their efforts, organizations can better determine what actions and technologies are required to manage, secure and optimize their WAN traffic. NBA technology like Mazu Profiler offers organizations a Best-in-Class solution that addresses the challenges that arise when optimizing their WAN.”
Aberdeen Group surveyed more than 230 organizations to identify challenges and best practices around optimizing Wide Area Networks (WAN) for acceleration of enterprise applications. The report serves as a roadmap for organizations targeted to reaching these goals through Best-in-Class use of technology solutions for WAN optimization and application acceleration.
To receive a free copy of “Optimizing WAN for Application Acceleration,” please visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410959&cid=4444.
About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company
Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen™ for insights that drive decisions.
As a Harte-Hanks Company, Aberdeen plays a key role of putting content in context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen’s analytical and independent view of the “customer optimization” process of Harte-Hanks (Information – Opportunity – Insight – Engagement – Interaction) extends the client value and accentuates the strategic role Harte-Hanks brings to the market. For additional information, visit Aberdeen at www.aberdeen.com or call (617) 723-7890, or to learn more about Harte-Hanks, call (800) 456-9748 or go to www.harte-hanks.com.
About Mazu Networks, Inc.
Mazu Networks offers solutions that enable IT organizations to manage, secure, and optimize the availability and performance of business services. Mazu Profiler uses Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) to provide a new way of looking at the IT infrastructure by analyzing network traffic to provide valuable information about the interactions of and dependencies between users, applications, and systems. This enables enterprise IT organizations to ensure optimal performance and availability, enhanced protection and support for regulatory compliance, and informed decision making for IT initiatives. Only Mazu Profiler offers behavioral analytics, user identification and application fingerprinting, role-based presentation using common data, and intelligent operation with other systems in the infrastructure. With Mazu Profiler, hundreds of customers are able to ensure the availability, performance, and security of business services as well as to reduce costs and satisfy regulatory requirements. For more information, please visit www.mazunetworks.com.
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