The Performance Zone

Riverbed Technology Named Best WAN Accelerator for 2009

Submitted by Brian Robertson, NetScout Product Marketing Manager

NetScout is very proud to offer our congratulations to our partner Riverbed…

Riverbed Technology announced on January 14th, 2009, that InfoWorld has named Riverbed Steelhead(R) appliances running RiOS(R) 5.0 as the winner of the best WAN Accelerator of 2009 award. InfoWorld has named Riverbed(R) the leader in WAN acceleration for five years in a row, beginning in 2005 when it first created the category and recognized Riverbed for its innovation and early leadership in the WAN optimization market.

See their press release here.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday – Which do you favor?

Submitted by Eileen Haggerty, NetScout Director of Product marketing

Thanksgiving is over, and now the mad dash to the Christmas season is upon us – made all that much more frantic this year by the shorter 27 days between the two holidays, versus 33 last year, and because of the tighter economic times we are faced with this year.  So while avoiding the actual crowds in the stores this past weekend, I did do a little web surfing and discovered some interesting shopping facts.

Will the G1 and iPhone withstand the "Storm"?

Submitted by Eileen Haggerty, NetScout's Director of Product Marketing

With Pre-Orders for Google G1 Phone beyond a million when it went on sale in the United States on October 22nd , anticipation is high for Verizon’s release of the new BlackBerry Storm this Friday November 21st, Verizon and T-Mobile subscribers and soon to be new customers will have a plethora of new services at their fingertips.