As IT evolves from a cost center to a revenue generating, performance enhancing and productivity boosting platform, it is critical that businesses relook at their application delivery strategy to stay in tune with the increasing demands of the business environment. Businesses depend on their enterprise applications to enable their end users to be more productive and efficient. Delivering applications to end users in a manner that is secure, efficient and always available is one of the key concerns in any enterprise IT environment. The traditional methodology of applications deployment has many drawbacks, and is prone to management, security and performance issues. Today, technologies such as application accelerators, desktop and application virtualization, application firewalls, secure remote access, WAN optimization and performance monitoring are changing the landscape in terms of application delivery.
A recent Forrester study has recommended a two-fold approach to raise the bar for application delivery in tune with today's business demands:
- Make application delivery a strategic priority.
- Designate key application delivery owners across IT, which has the simple goal of allowing any user, anywhere in the network to connect to any application with the best possible user experience and the right level of security.