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Marketing Director
Ipanema Technologies | | | | Guarantee application performance even in small branch offices: the dream has become a reality Following the recent announcement of its Cloud-Ready Network vision (enabling the guarantee of SaaS application performance over the WAN), Ipanema has just announced its nano|engine family for branch offices. For the first time, you can have guaranteed application performance at an affordable price, even for small branch offices. Frank Lyonnet, our VP Product Marketing, gives you more information below. Guarantees are never easy to obtain... Can I have the guarantee that my family will ever be safe? Can I have the guarantee that I will always have a good job? Can I have the guarantee that I'll stay in good health? It is impossible to say YES, even with a very good insurance policy. However, in the case of application performance, with Ipanema you can now say YES my network will always deliver the best possible Quality of Service to my business application end-users. Simon Hill, IT Director for the UK waste management and recycling company Viridor, explains application performance challenges he has to manage, including running business applications over Citrix in a very limited bandwidth environment. Read below for more information on how Ipanema helps Viridor to align its network with its business strategy and to guarantee application performance in all circumstances... 
| | | | SUCCESS STORY | | Simon Hill is IT director for waste management and recycling company Viridor, which has grown its operations to over 320 facilities across the UK by acquiring many of its smaller rivals. However, while that expansion may have improved Viridor's market share, incorporating all those additional sites, ICT contracts, applications and other hardware/software resources into some form of cohesive infrastructure presented several problems. One of the biggest challenges Hill faced was how to guarantee application performance at remote sites with very limited bandwidth...
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VP Product Marketing
Ipanema Technologies | | | | nano|engine: full application control in small branch offices at 10% of the cost. Beatrice for Ipanews: What is the main challenge enterprises have to deal with when moving to the cloud?
Frank Lyonnet: The cloud is about delivering applications anytime, anywhere and on any device. This shifts the complexity of application delivery from data centers to the enterprise network, where branches have greater influence on traffic composition and loads...
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