The ADO Revolution

Application Delivery Optimization (ADO) is emerging as a critical discipline for enterprise IT organizations needing to understand, control, and secure application traffic across their networks in order to ensure application performance and availability. ADO comprises a spectrum of interlocking technologies, including WAN optimization, security, and application acceleration. However, the whole is greater than the sum of these parts. ADO is the holistic discipline of ensuring that applications are delivered with optimal performance, appropriate security, and continuous availability to an increasingly dispersed and distributed organization. Options for implementing ADO range from appliances to software to services, and no one approach is right for all organizations