Microsoft and Packeteer Announce Windows-based Branch Office Solution
For IT people, branch offices really stink. They're far removed and the network connections between them and the main office are often expensive and sometimes unreliable. The problem is getting the necessary data and applications down to the branch offices without compromising network performance.
One solution for doing that is a network accelerator that optimizes, prioritizes, and compresses traffic as it moves from the main office to the branch office. But, too often these tools have been historically vaporware or too expensive.
To combat this, Microsoft recently announced a partnership with Packeteer -- a company well-known for its network traffic shaping technology -- to produce a branch office solution that will do just that. The solution, called the iShaper...
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