Copyright © 2008 by Computerworld, Inc., Framingham, MA 01701. Posted from COMPUTERWORLD. #1-24798794 Managed by The YGS Group, 717.399.1900. For more information visit www.theYGSgroup.com/reprints. REPRINTED from AUGUST 8, 2008 COMPUTERWORLD.COM BY MATT HAMBLEN G LEN DALGLEISH, VICE PRESIDENT of infrastructure services at global perfumer Coty Inc., well remembers why he and his staff had implemented WAN acceleration technology last January: to improve Internet download speeds for some 6,000 users worldwide. With the technology from Riverbed Technology Inc. in place, users in Europe or Asia could download a 50MB multimedia presentation on a hot new fragrance in less than fi ve minutes — a big improvement over the 30 minutes it had taken before the acceleration fi x. “It

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