Ann Bednarz

Associate News Editor

 

abednarz@nww.com (612) 926-0470

Network World, Inc. 118 Turnpike Road Southborough, MA 01772

Recent articles by Bednarz

Grim forecast for holiday e-commerce sales
Nov. 26, 2008
Judging by the first 23 days of November, retailers can expect flat spending growth for the 2008 holiday e-commerce season, predicts Web measurement firm comScore.

Are retailers' sites ready for an onslaught?
Nov. 25, 2008
With Thanksgiving just two days away, retailers are about to find out how their Web sites will fare during the industry's high shopping season. A poor economy puts even more pressure on retailers to make sure Web ...

Sun, wind, algae: Future data center power sources?
Nov. 25, 2008
Researchers and policymakers gathered at E3 2008 to share progress in the development of renewable energy sources including wind, solar and biofuels.

Anagran appoints new CEO
Nov. 20, 2008
The month of November is flying by, but before it closes I wanted to catch up on some news in the world of network optimization. For starters, network traffic management start-up Anagran has a new president and CEO: ...

OPNET, Riverbed share a box
Nov. 18, 2008
As businesses become more distributed and the number of branch offices climbs, enterprise IT teams are becoming keen on reducing the number of appliances they have to deploy in each remote environment.

Blue Coat plugs into PacketShaper
Nov. 13, 2008
Blue Coat Systems this week announced a tool designed to open the lines of communication between its home-grown ProxySG appliances and the PacketShaper gear gained in its $268 million acquisition of Packeteer earlier ...

Akamai puts configuration control in users' hands
Nov. 11, 2008
Akamai Technologies unveiled a tool this week that aims to take away some of the pain associated with configuring application-specific acceleration parameters. The new Configuration Manager tool lets users configure and ...

How smart spending can bolster WAN application delivery
Nov. 06, 2008
It might surprise readers to learn the companies most successful at WAN application delivery don't necessarily spend a whole lot more money than those that struggle to optimize application delivery.

Best practices for speeding WAN application delivery
Nov. 04, 2008
The message is sinking in: Adding bandwidth isn't a cure-all for application performance problems.

Grim forecast for holiday e-commerce sales
Nov. 26, 2008
Judging by the first 23 days of November, retailers can expect flat spending growth for the 2008 holiday e-commerce season, predicts Web measurement firm comScore.

Sun, wind, algae: Future data center power sources?
Nov. 25, 2008
Researchers and policymakers gathered at E3 2008 to share progress in the development of renewable energy sources including wind, solar and biofuels.

ROI potential keeps WAN optimization projects on the table
Oct. 30, 2008
In the last newsletter I wrote about quarterly results reported by F5 Networks, Citrix Systems and Riverbed Technology. But quarterly results don't tell the whole story - particularly when the economy has changed so ...

F5, Citrix and Riverbed report quarterly results
Oct. 28, 2008
F5 Networks, Citrix Systems and Riverbed Technology last week reported financial results for the three months ended Sept. 30. F5 announced an impressive jump in fourth-quarter profit, tempered by a supply issue that ...

Radware, ICT bolster WAN acceleration wares
Oct. 23, 2008
It has been a busy few weeks for WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors. Among the highlights is Afore Solutions' introduction of a network acceleration appliance designed to optimize data-center-to-data- ...

What's to like about IT rollouts
Oct. 21, 2008
With the flood of disheartening economy-related stories dominating the news, it's nice to read something positive for a change. I had an opportunity to ask a handful of enterprise IT pros what they like best about today ...

What IT pros like best about next-generation technology
Oct. 20, 2008
The flexibility, costs savings and eco-friendly operations from next-generation IT technologies like server and storage virtualization make enterprise IT executive's list of best benefits.

Sprint, Verizon unveil managed WAN optimization services
Oct. 16, 2008
Industry watchers have been predicting U.S. companies will start paying more attention to managed WAN optimization services, which so far have been deployed most widely in Europe and other parts of the globe.

Federal employees lack tools for mobile work, study finds
Oct. 15, 2008
Federal employees are becoming more mobile, but government agencies are missing opportunities to improve employees' productivity when they're out of the office, concludes new research from the Telework Exchange. The ...

Musictoday keeps ticket sales humming
Oct. 14, 2008
Outfits that sell tickets online know all about traffic spikes. Thousands of fans and ticket brokers wait to pounce the minute that tickets go on sale for their favorite music, sports and entertainment events. If a Web ...

Are WAN plans changing?
Oct. 09, 2008
It's impossible not to think about the economy these days, and its impact on business. Recent reports have shown IT buyers are rethinking their spending plans - and scaling back.

F5 speeds up Siebel CRM apps
Oct. 07, 2008
When vendors do some upfront integration legwork, customers can benefit from smoother deployments and more optimal acceleration results. F5 Networks' latest focus is on improving the performance of Oracle's Siebel CRM ...

Mortgage lender speeds processing with WAN optimization
Oct. 02, 2008
The question of where, physically, to locate WAN-optimization features isn't easy to answer.

BlueCoat's WAN optimization software targets teleworkers
Sep. 30, 2008
Many vendors in the WAN optimization and application acceleration markets got their start as specialists, focused on specific tasks such as load balancing, compression or traffic classification. But as the market has ...

Gas shortage spurs telework in southeast U.S.
Sep. 30, 2008
Gas shortages in the southeast United States are prompting companies to consider expanding their telework programs so employees can conserve fuel. Other options workers are weighing include greater use of carpools and ...

WAN optimization vendors plot corporate growth
Sep. 25, 2008
No one can accuse the WAN optimization market of standing still. Vendors continue to jockey for bigger shares of the market, as IT buyers tune in to the advantages of application acceleration and WAN performance- ...