App acceleration is food for thought - Computerworld
Invite to dinner six executives from the top application acceleration vendors and the discussion starts flying fast. Speeding things up is what these guys do for a living.Dealing with myriad software protocols, application quirks, internal politics between network and application engineers, and the hurdles of data security and service reliability were all issues occupying the minds of executives from Cisco Systems Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Crescendo Networks Ltd., F5 Networks Inc., Foundry Networks Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. who joined Network World's editors for dinner at the Interop show in New York last week.
Speeding applications on unreliable networks is definitely a pain point, but I believe it's part of a much larger issue of addressing the shortcomings of HTTP over the "public" internet as an application architecture: speed, performance, manageability, authentication, authorization, and security. In the end, all of these things have to be addressed. My question is who assembles all the pieces first (and figures out how to sell them to the application providers)?
