This can make enterprises and employees more vulnerable to a proliferation of security threats that can significantly affect their business operations. It also means users have to go across higher latency networks outside of your control, risking unacceptable performance.

Employees, whether local, global, or remote, demand continual access to enterprise applications, so corporations must be sure they can meet their application availability and performance expectations. Therefore, the right systems must be put in place to ensure optimal performance of missioncritical applications, while also protecting and securing their network infrastructure.

This whitepaper will examine the escalating application performance and security challenges facing corporations, and show how companies are securing and optimizing the performance of their enterprise applications, such as those from Oracle, with WAN application delivery solutions, such as those from Blue Coat.