To all our customers, partners, associates and friends: a very merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year. Rather than sending out Christmas cards, we’ve supported a couple of charities this year, you’ll find details below. Best wishes, Stu. The Pepper Foundation (http://www.irhh.org/Pepper/) The Pepper Foundation is a registered charity, which provides funds for [...] more »
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure”
…so said a former colleague when I was working for a logistics company. It’s a simple but effective mantra that has stuck with me ever since, as it applies to practically any project or process improvement. If you can’t establish a baseline, if you can’t quantify the here-and-now, how can you expect to demonstrate the [...] more »
New release: Exinda OS 6.1
New release: Exinda OS 6.1. IPv6 support, edge cache, improved reports & alerts. Contact us to arrange a trial! Exinda has now introduced its new ExOS 6.1 software for its WAN Optimization appliances. This .1 release offers significant business benefits to network operators including several key features and enhancements such as the Exinda Edge Cache™, increased [...] more »
Using Exinda to Help Improve Equallogic Replication – Setup
We’ve recently undertaken a project that involves replication between Equallogic iSCSI SANs. Using Exinda appliances, the objective is to use acceleration (WAN memory) to improve replication performance, whilst using shaping to ensure that other business critical applications get priority during the day. We may look to using schedules to give the replication high priority access [...] more »
Using Exinda to Help Improve Equallogic Replication – Results
In a previous post we explained how to configure the Exinda appliance to deal with iSCSI traffic. Having built our policies and enabled acceleration (available with x800 licences, x700 primarily offer visibility and shaping), we are now seeing some fairly impressive reduction stats. For example, the Exinda report for a Saturday shows: Reduction Statistics by [...] more »
How Exinda Can Improve the Performance of Backup Exec CPS
By default, CPS uses ports 20481, 20483, 20485 and 1804. Creating the application group is pretty straight forward: (config) # application "CPS" port 1804 protocol tcp (config) # application "CPS" port 1804 protocol udp (config) # application "CPS" port 20481 protocol tcp (config) # application "CPS" port 20483 protocol tcp (config) # application "CPS" port [...] more »
Exinda WAN Optimisation
Exinda is a proven global supplier of Traffic Shaping & WAN Optimization products. Exinda is installed and maintained in network deployments that exceed 1,000 devices. Exinda products help over 1,500 organizations in 80 countries worldwide to reduce network operating costs and ensure consistent application performance over the WAN. The Exinda Unified Performance Management (UPM) solution encompasses [...] more »
WatchGuard Network Security
WatchGuard builds affordable network and content security solutions to provide defence for corporate content, networks. WatchGuard’s award-winning extensible threat management (XTM) network security solutions combine firewall, VPN and security services to protect networks from spam, viruses, malware and intrusions. Share this:ShareStumbleUponPrintDiggFacebookEmail more »
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