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This excerpt taken from the RVBD 10-K filed Feb 23, 2009. Industry Background We believe there are over four million remote offices of U.S. based companies alone. We also believe millions of remote computing locations exist for companies based outside the U.S. Many of these locations represent potential sites for our products. The WAN optimization market provides global access to data and applications across WANs with local area network (LAN)-like performance. The WAN optimization market is large and growing. The key drivers of demand in this market are the increasingly geographically distributed nature of organizations and employees, the increasing desirability of consolidation of IT resources to achieve compelling cost, management and data protection benefits, and the growing business dependence on application performance and real-time access to data. Increasingly Distributed Organizations and Workforces Organizations are becoming more geographically distributed, placing operations closer to customers and partners to improve efficiency and responsiveness. Businesses are becoming more global by expanding into new markets, migrating manufacturing facilities to lower-cost locations and outsourcing certain business processes. In addition, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures continue to expand the geographic scope of existing enterprises. Organizations are Increasingly Dependent on Timely Access to Critical Data and Applications Application performance and effective access to data are critical to executing, maintaining and expanding business operations. Employees are increasingly dependent on a wide array of software applications to perform their jobs effectively, such as e-mail, document management, enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management.
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Table of ContentsBenefits of IT Infrastructure Consolidation As organizations have become more geographically distributed, installing and managing IT infrastructure has become increasingly costly and complex. Accordingly, IT managers often seek to consolidate IT infrastructure resources into headquarters or centralized datacenter locations, which can provide a number of benefits, including:
Despite these benefits, many organizations have foregone or delayed consolidation projects because of performance problems. Wide-Area Distributed Computing Challenges Technological advances in computing, networking, semiconductor and storage technologies have improved users’ ability to access data and use applications rapidly across their LANs and store enormous amounts of information economically. However, these same applications and storage technologies, which were often designed to operate optimally on LANs, perform slowly across WANs and frequently exhibit the following performance challenges:
Although many companies have attempted to solve these problems solely by adding bandwidth, we believe these performance problems can best be solved by addressing not only bandwidth challenges but also, and usually more importantly, the effects of latency and protocol chattiness:
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This excerpt taken from the RVBD 10-K filed Feb 15, 2008. Industry Background We believe there are over four million remote offices of U.S. based companies alone. We also believe millions of remote computing locations exist for companies based outside the U.S. Many of these locations represent potential sites for our products. The WDS market provides global access to data and applications across WANs with local area network (LAN)-like performance. The WDS market is large and growing. The key drivers of demand in this market are the increasingly geographically distributed nature of organizations and employees, the growing business dependence on application performance and real-time access to data and the increasing desirability of consolidation of IT resources to achieve compelling cost, management and data protection benefits. Increasingly Distributed Organizations and Workforces Organizations are becoming more geographically distributed, placing operations closer to customers and partners to improve efficiency and responsiveness. Businesses are becoming more global by expanding into new markets, migrating manufacturing facilities to lower-cost locations and outsourcing certain business processes. In addition, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures continue to expand the geographic scope of existing enterprises. Organizations are Increasingly Dependent on Timely Access to Critical Data and Applications Application performance and effective access to data are critical to executing, maintaining and expanding business operations. Employees are increasingly dependent on a wide array of software applications to perform their jobs effectively, such as e-mail, document management, enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management.
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Table of ContentsBenefits of IT Infrastructure Consolidation As organizations have become more geographically distributed, installing and managing IT infrastructure has become increasingly costly and complex. Accordingly, IT managers often seek to consolidate IT infrastructure resources into headquarters or centralized datacenter locations, which can provide a number of benefits, including:
Despite these benefits, many organizations have foregone or delayed consolidation projects because of performance problems. Wide-Area Distributed Computing Challenges Technological advances in computing, networking, semiconductor and storage technologies have improved users’ ability to access data and use applications rapidly across their LANs and store enormous amounts of information economically. However, these same applications and storage technologies, which were often designed to operate optimally on LANs, perform slowly across WANs and frequently exhibit the following performance challenges:
Although many companies have attempted to solve these problems solely by adding bandwidth, we believe these performance problems can best be solved by addressing not only bandwidth challenges but also, and usually more importantly, the effects of latency and protocol chattiness:
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This excerpt taken from the RVBD 10-K filed Feb 9, 2007. Industry Background We believe there are over four million remote offices of U.S.-based companies alone. We also believe millions of remote computing locations exist for companies based outside the U.S. Many of these locations represent potential sites for our products. We refer to WDS as the market for providing global access to data and applications across WANs with local area network (LAN)-like performance. The WDS market is large and growing. The key drivers of demand in this market are the increasingly geographically distributed nature of organizations and employees, the growing business dependence on application performance and real-time access to data and the increasing desirability of consolidation of IT resources to achieve compelling cost, management and data protection benefits. Increasingly Distributed Organizations and Workforces Organizations are becoming more geographically distributed, placing operations closer to customers and partners to improve efficiency and responsiveness. Businesses are becoming more global by expanding into new markets, migrating manufacturing facilities to lower-cost locations and outsourcing certain business processes. In addition, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures continue to expand the geographic scope of existing enterprises. Organizations are Increasingly Dependent on Timely Access to Critical Data and Applications Application performance and effective access to data are critical to executing, maintaining and expanding business operations. Employees are increasingly dependent on a wide array of software applications to perform their jobs effectively, such as E-mail, document management, enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management.
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Table of ContentsBenefits of IT Infrastructure Consolidation As organizations have become more geographically distributed, installing and managing IT infrastructure has become increasingly costly and complex. Accordingly, IT managers often seek to consolidate IT infrastructure resources into headquarters or centralized datacenter locations, which can provide a number of benefits, including:
Despite these benefits, many organizations have foregone or delayed consolidation projects because of performance problems. Wide-Area Distributed Computing Challenges Technological advances in computing, networking, semiconductor and storage technologies have improved users’ ability to access data and use applications rapidly across their LANs and store enormous amounts of information economically. However, these same applications and storage technologies, which were often designed to operate optimally on LANs, perform slowly across WANs and frequently exhibit the following performance challenges:
Although many companies have attempted to solve these problems solely by adding bandwidth, we believe these performance problems can best be solved by addressing not only bandwidth challenges but also, and usually more importantly, the effects of latency and protocol chattiness:
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