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For example, a cross-domain team can view common information about the performance of an application, the network, and how the end user is being affected through the Portal’s “High-Level Summary” view. Looking at the “Application Map” in this view, the application team can quickly identify the application is the root cause and then drill down further to establish why, identifying issues such as newly installed application code.

An average of over 50% of enterprise employees are based at branch offices (remote sites, job sites, stores, manufacturing plants, etc.), meaning that if branch applications don’t perform, branch workers can’t work and business is lost with direct impacts to the top and bottom line. Branch offices, remote locations and store fronts are critical for local customer engagement, but they require IT staff to support many islands of infrastructure that are costly and inefficient to maintain and yet necessary to meet local performance and reliability needs. Today, 50% of company data and intellectual property still lives outside the data center, leaving it unprotected, open to compromise and data breaches. Backup processes are cumbersome and data recovery is time-consuming or even futile without qualified IT staff at most branches, not to mention the challenges of provisioning new services or applications in an agile world. These activities, and others that support branch IT operations, consume 50% of IT budgets.

An average of over 50% of enterprise employees are based at branch offices (remote sites, job sites, stores, manufacturing plants, etc.), meaning that if branch applications don’t perform, branch workers can’t work and business is lost with direct impacts to the top and bottom line. Branch offices, remote locations and store fronts are critical for local customer engagement, but they require IT staff to support many islands of infrastructure that are costly and inefficient to maintain and yet necessary to meet local performance and reliability needs. Today, 50% of company data and intellectual property still lives outside the data center, leaving it unprotected, open to compromise and data breaches. Backup processes are cumbersome and data recovery is time-consuming or even futile without qualified IT staff at most branches, not to mention the challenges of provisioning new services or applications in an agile world. These activities, and others that support branch IT operations, consume 50% of IT budgets.

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JEO relies on a hybrid network – a mix of MPLS and Internet WAN circuits – to deliver centralized, business-critical applications, such as computer-aided design (CAD), geographic information systems (GIS) and financial software to its 10 offices, and also to enable inter-office collaboration.

JEO relies on a hybrid network – a mix of MPLS and Internet WAN circuits – to deliver centralized, business-critical applications, such as computer-aided design (CAD), geographic information systems (GIS) and financial software to its 10 offices, and also to enable inter-office collaboration.

This approach was cumbersome and led to serious problems with version control, so Esguerra set up a multiprotocol layer switching (MPLS) network and moved toward centralizing applications and data. But due to distances between offices, bandwidth limitations, and the large size of the firm’s project files, this didn’t completely solve the problem. Employees experienced delays accessing business critical-applications, SQL databases and file-shares. They were also unable to provide clients with onsite, real-time displays of project files.

This approach was cumbersome and led to serious problems with version control, so Esguerra set up a multiprotocol layer switching (MPLS) network and moved toward centralizing applications and data. But due to distances between offices, bandwidth limitations, and the large size of the firm’s project files, this didn’t completely solve the problem. Employees experienced delays accessing business critical-applications, SQL databases and file-shares. They were also unable to provide clients with onsite, real-time displays of project files.

According to Gartner, "because enterprises continue to demand improved performance of their applications, WAN optimization solutions keep evolving with improved and increasingly granular application optimization and visibility capabilities. The development of the application acceleration market has been driven by customer demand for highly integrated solutions that employ a wide range of techniques to optimize network and application performance and end-user experience and that offer scalability and fault tolerance."^[1]