Fusion PPT, a recognized strategy and technology solution firm, announced today that CTO Michael Biddick’s article on WAN Optimization has been published in InformationWeek Analytics.

Packet loss on a WAN is inevitable, and when it occurs it can be devastating for applications. The increasing volume of voice and video services, enormous digital files, and critical enterprise applications moving across wide-area pipes has some IT organizations we work with scrambling. Latency introduced between client and server, lack of bandwidth, and the chattiness of protocols not optimized for the WAN all result in potentially poor performance. Meanwhile throughput is still expensive, as is the effort to provision WAN links—and adding more bandwidth is no guarantee of improvement, anyway.

It was against this backdrop that we decided to take a new snapshot of attitudes toward WAN optimization appliances, which help IT make the most of existing wide-area pipes.