Traffic Management

In this report you will learn how today's WCM platforms are fusing the best marketing automation practices with content management, allowing marketers to leverage content in new and innovative ways. Discover 10 of the top capabilities you should be considering for your website.

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When it's time to expand your network, this guide will help you evaluate the needs of your organization and enable you to provide best performance for mission-critical applications.

Triboo specializes in managing e-commerce activities and performance marketing for many Italian companies. The company's website was struggling to support over 2 million page views and 45 million hits each day, so they turned to Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager. Now Triboo enjoys high website availability and scalability, and its customers enjoy an outstanding online experience.

Global travel specialist STA Travel found that access to its website had slowed and that peaks in web traffic from promotional campaigns had become difficult to manage. The company turned to the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager for support. This cost-effective solution deployed quickly, improved the website's performance and uptime, and provided a superior online experience for its customers.

Socialbomb builds applications that integrate with its clients' social platforms to create innovative, well-maintained, successful online campaigns. Unfortunately, many of its online applications were faltering at peak traffic times, which made managing campaigns difficult. The company chose Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager to ensure that its advanced social network projects remained online, and that they provided detailed reporting during traffic spikes.

When AlertBoot switched to the cloud it needed a load balancing solution that would support its migration and prevent as much downtime as possible. The company chose Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager to use while transitioning its infrastructure to an entirely virtualized environment. The move was a complete success, at one-third the cost of comparable hardware solutions.

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Everyone wants more traffic to their web site, right? What happens if the investments you make to drive traffic to your site result in reduced revenue? Continue reading to learn more about how important web load testing is.

If you are responsible for administering the IT infrastructure at a small-to-medium size business (SMB), using network monitoring, mapping and alerting software can help you do your job better by maximizing network uptime and efficiency.Here are the top reasons to implement a network monitoring system.

Between May and June 2010 Aberdeen examined the experiences and intentations of more than 170 service and manufacturing enterprises in the use and selection of non-field based service delivery channels enterprises.

Operational challenges have long been used as a reason not to introduce a second vendor into the network infrastructure. However, by taking an organized approach and using well-established multivendor network management tools and disciplines, enterprises can reduce operational challenges to a minimum, while reaping the benefits of a lower-cost, better-performing infrastructure.

The proliferation of new, extended application development in software as a service, as well as new virtualization technologies, have created in most data centers a conflict between today's outdated capabilities versus tomorrow's growing needs.

A number of associations, consultants and vendors have promoted best practices for enhancing data center energy efficiency. These practices cover everything from facility lighting to cooling system design, and have proven useful in helping some companies slow or reverse the trend of rising data center energy consumption. However, most organizations still lack a cohesive, holistic approach for reducing data center energy use.

Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, countless new technologies, unprecedented business demands, and expanding IT budgets created the modern data center.

The strategic business importance of today's data center requires a more complex and thoughtful approach to environmental control planning than ever before.

The idea of load balancing is well defined in the IT world: A network device accepts traffic on behalf ofa group of servers, and distributes that traffic according to load balancing algorithms and the availabilityof the services that the servers provide. From network administrators to server administrators to applicationdevelopers, this is a generally well understood concept.

Application Delivery Controllers understand applications and optimize server performance - offloading compute-intensive tasks that prevent servers from quickly delivering applications. Learn how ADCs have taken over where load balancers left off.

For anyone involved in IT, virtualization has ushered in an entirely new world, one where a lot of traditional rules, strategies, and approaches no longer apply. In the rush to adopt virtualization, many organizations have entered this world ill-equipped to deal with the new realities. This is especially true when it comes to capacity management.

Cloud computing is getting a lot of coverage in the media and a lot of space in the slide decks presented in analyst briefings.

Keeping today's complex data center running at peak performance is no easy task. With hundreds-even thousands-of devices to manage, how can you be sure your data center is functioning correctly, appropriately size the infrastructure and quickly resolve emergencies? Providing real-time access to key data center metrics, infrastructure monitoring helps you effectively plan and manage capacity, right-size the data center to meet business demands, improve operational efficiency and prevent outages.

This white paper moves beyond the hype of green IT and provides substantial support for implementing practical, yet cost effective power management policies and tools to "green" your IT environment and boost your bottom line.

This paper outlines the seven essential buying criteria that every decision-maker needs to consider when making a decision on a video delivery provider. These buying criteria are shared across the gamut of small, video-centric startups and established, familiar media giants.

This joint Intel white paper explores how to address virtualization in an environment with high I/O. The paper includes a technology overview, network concerns and explains how Virtuozzo and Intel are well suited for the high I/O environment.

The goal of this Essentials Series has been to illustrate why effective monitoring and management is necessary for a healthy network. That need is the case irrespective of the size of your network.