Chapter 2. Barriers to Application Performance

This chapter includes the following topics:

Networks and Application Performance

Application and Protocol Barriers to Application Performance

Operating System Barriers to Application Performance

Hardware Barriers to Application Performance

Why are many organizations now faced with the challenge of centralizing distributed server and storage infrastructure? Given the complexities and costs associated with managing such distributed infrastructure, one would assume that servers, storage, and data protection would have been deployed centrally to begin with. Unfortunately, many factors exist that can quickly diminish performance when users access applications, files, content, or other services ...

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