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:: Application Intelligent Networking: Fool-proof network access
A dynamic business environment today is synonymous with constantly expanding and evolving business goals. Such a situation throws up a number of challenges for an organisation. Critical among them is the need to extend the existing network infrastructure to meet new business requirements. This does not mean just making available applications to customers, partners and employees. Such a situation warrants designing an application infrastructure that can adapt effortlessly to the uncertainties that go beyond regular corporate boundaries.
Therefore, to ensure continuous availability of both applications and content, the network must deliver full protection against the increased vulnerability that comes with exposing these applications to a global user group. The network must do more than just ensure end-to-end protection of business-critical content without compromising or degrading end user experience. It must automatically increase the resiliency of your application's performance to unexpected network delays or fluctuations in demand.
It is imperative that a network architected for application intelligence meet the challenge of providing a comprehensive solution to satisfy these increasing demands while reducing operating costs and complexity. Such solutions are increasingly becoming known as the 'application intelligent networking' platforms of tomorrow.......
Author's Details
Rakesh Singh is GM of NetScaler Pvt Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of NetScaler based in Bangalore. Rakesh holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley\'s Haas School of Business, a Master\'s in computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a BE (Electrical) from the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, India.