With IT managers worried about so many possibilities that can go wrong today – outages, hackers, viruses, and systems overload, to name a few – the last thing they need to be concerned about is network congestion. They simply want everything to keep flowing without restriction, but there are new concerns.
“Application overpopulation is a major problem for enterprise networks, often leading to a costly network slowdown or downtime, user frustration and most of all – loss of valuable income.” That’s according to Allot (News - Alert) Communications, a leader in bandwidth management and broadband management solutions.
Compounding the problem is the rise of the cloud, along with the Bring Your own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, which is opening up the network to all sorts of outside threats.
“As enterprises adopt a Cloud approach to providing business applications, enterprise network access and services must become both device- and content-agnostic,” Allot says.
But there is hope, and help, on the horizon. Allot solutions have been employed in enterprise networks worldwide to implement effective solutions. Such solutions include:
Business-Critical Application Control, which assures your users enjoy good performance from business-critical applications under any network conditions.
Data Center Optimization with Congestion Control, to ensure that data and services flow unimpeded between data centers and the people throughout your organization.
WAN Optimization, so the dynamic and granular management of WAN traffic optimizes link utilization and provides consistent quality of service to remote and mobile network users.
Acceptable Use Management, a policy that enforces how individual traffic is treated according to the needs of different facilities, departments, users, applications, access methods, etc.
URL Filtering, allowing enterprises to comply with emerging and existing legislation against the distribution of illegal content via the Internet.
Botnet Containment, which defends your network against malicious bots by detecting malware-infected hosts and spam activity before it adversely affects network performance and integrity.
As noted above, this problem is not going away, and is only going to get worse. Proactive managers realize this, and are taking steps now to minimize risk and disruption.
Allot Communications (News - Alert) is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization solutions that help enterprises and data centers run more efficient networks to enhance the user experience. Maybe it’s time to give them a call.
Edited by Blaise McNamee