WAN Governance

WAN Governance is when WAN optimization and application performance management meet with IT governance.

The WAN is so critical to enterprise productivity that time has come to consider it from a business perspective, just as other critical sectors of the organization are evaluated.

Throwing bandwidth and technology (application performance management, WAN optimization, QoS or application acceleration) at the problem is no longer enough in today’s world of business governance. Looking at the global enterprise network from a business angle, rather than as a collection of technical objects, is one of the new challenges faced by every IT leaders. WAN Governance enables enterprises to manage their WAN coherently and predictably, and it allows organizations to align the network to the needs of the business.

WAN Governance starts with the definition of global objectives. These objectives feed a system which implements WAN optimization, QoS and application acceleration technologies that dynamically adapt to application and user demand with the available network resources. WAN Governance also extends application performance management and permits a continuous service level management capability using business key performance indicators (KPIs).
 

Thanks to WAN Governance, it is now possible to address fundamental questions such as “what is the right network cost” and “what is the best mix of resources and technologies required to make users of critical applications productive?”.

WAN Governance allows the enterprise to:

• Control the network with application SLAs.
• Guarantee application performance from high-level objectives.
• Manage the network cost / application performance tradeoff
• Encourage best practices with performance-based network cost allocation.
• Understand the impact of IT chain components on user Quality of Experience.
• Match technology investments with your real requirements.