10.05.05
Increase infrastructure performance for globalization
Even though globalization presents significant saving for an enterprise, there are hurdles that need to be overcome. One of the top issues is performance and optimization for timely remote access. This issue is not new. In order to save cost and create a consistent data warehouse, an enterprise tends to centralize data operation and consolidate web infrastructure. This is great from a management perspective, but the assumption is that the network is fast enough to deliver the performance. This kind of design works well if majority of access comes in from well-connected US and Canada, but as an enterprise becomes global, the central server is not that ideal and performance degrades quickly, especially from remote locations such as Asia and Middle-East. Keep on buying more bandwidth in developing countries could be costly. Companies tend to address it by several kinds of techniques:
- delta bandwidth optimization (ie. fineground) which was acquired by Cisco recently
- local dynamic edge data caching ( ie commendo)
- deploy WAN optimization technology from Peribit Networks, acquired by Juniper.
All of these solutions work, depends on how much control an enterprise has end-to-end and whether the data is dynamic or static.
