Best Practices For Selecting WAN Optimization Solutions: Benchmarking Performance ROI

As businesses become increasingly dependent on the effective delivery of IT services over far-flung enterprise networks, technologies that optimize the performance of applications over the WAN have become increasingly attractive. In fact, this type of technology may be indispensable for companies operating on a global scale.

There are, however, many types of WAN optimization and application performance acceleration solutions from many different vendors. And IT budgets are not unlimited. So any decision-maker contemplating the acquisition of such a solution must somehow select the one that will deliver the greatest value, based on the company's specific IT environment and specific business requirements.

Shunra enables these best practices by providing evaluation teams with a controlled benchmarking environment they can use to accurately compare solutions from various vendors. This benchmarking environment allows performance gains at the end-user desktop to be measured for both current and projected network conditions.