Top Enterprise Networking Predictions for 2011 From Blue Coat

Dec. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Nigel Hawthorn, VP EMEA Marketing from Blue Coat Systems, Inc. , the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, provides a glimpse into the future of enterprise networking in 2011:

1.   Using mobile phones or laptop computers and streaming video websites, employees will conduct more impromptu live video broadcasts of internal company meetings or presentations at industry conferences. These live video casts will put greater load on enterprise WAN links and Internet gateway connections and often bringing them to total saturation

2.   High definition live and on-demand video will become more prevalent on the Web, creating more sizable “video floods” that can take over enterprise WAN links and Internet gateways; 3D video on the Web will still be a novelty and have almost no impact on corporate networks

3.   Traffic  from the Web, including text, graphics, audio and video, will represent more than 75% of corporate network traffic, up from 50% in 2010

4.   Social networking will become the second largest class of Web traffic on corporate networks, behind live and on-demand Web video

5.   More businesses will consider social networking a key business tool and will begin implementing policies to allow social networking communication but control the use of social media games and other applications

6.   Companies will more rapidly embrace SharePoint or cloud-based document management, shifting away from traditional server-based file shares and putting less importance on WAN optimization for the CIFS protocol and more on HTTP optimization and acceleration

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About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking.  Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere.  This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage.  Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and boost the end-user Web experience.  For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

For more information, please contact:

Manal Abi Rafeh
Regional Marketing Manager ME & Turkey
Blue Coat Systems ME
Telephone: +971 4  3911620
Fax: +971 4 3911635
Email: manal.abirafeh@bluecoat.com

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