Survey Shows Web-Enabled Application Delivery Creates New
Challenges for 92% of Enterprises Who Deploy
Computerworld Research Report Now Available at No Charge
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(
BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2004--IT organizations
are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix performance,
security and other problems associated with transitioning to
Web-enabled versions of enterprise applications, a new
Computerworld survey has found. And despite the dollars spent, more
than half the enterprises surveyed said they are still either in
the planning stages of addressing the problems or simply "
living
with the pain."
More than 60 percent of the companies responding to the May 2004
survey conducted by Computerworld said application performance
suffered and security risks grew following the move from
client-server application models to new Web-enabled approaches.
Beyond the cost of deploying the applications, these companies said
that, to deal with the problems, they have spent an average of over
$200,000 - and in some cases over $500,000 - chiefly on network and
firewall upgrades, additional server capacity and Web tier point
products.
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online visitors involved in deploying enterprise resource planning
(ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and other Web-enabled
applications. The survey targeted companies of all sizes, with
employee counts ranging from less than 500 to more than 5,000. The
research was commissioned by Redline Networks and carried out by
Computerworld Research to examine the challenges typically faced by
IT management in moving to Web-enabled applications.
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Thinkpad Highlights of the survey's results, in addition to the spending
data already mentioned, were:
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Microsoft -- Custom applications are the number-one category of
Web-enabled enterprise application, beating out any single vendor's
applications. Forty-nine percent of respondents use
in-house-developed applications, with Microsoft Outlook Web Access
in second place.
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Laptop Computers -- The average company has deployed 84 Web-enabled applications,
with large enterprises running an average of 184 such
applications.
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Laptop Computer -- Ninety-two percent of enterprises cite at least one major
challenge in deploying Web-enabled applications. At the top of the
list was "user response time and performance," followed by
"increased security challenges and risks." Other top challenges
included infrastructure scalability, high availability/reliability,
bandwidth utilization and cost, and network management
complexity.
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Desktop Computer Matt Duffy, Computerworld director of research, said, "It is
clear from our survey results that enterprises are facing
significant challenges with the delivery of Web-enabled
applications. While large enterprises are leading in spending to
address those challenges, a majority still consider themselves in
either a planning or 'wait and see' stage."
Notebooks "A new solution is needed that will address these delivery
challenges without adding so many layers of complexity that the
data center becomes unmanageable," said Craig Stouffer, Redline
Networks vice president of marketing. "A substantial growth
opportunity exists for vendors who, like Redline, can address all
of the challenges identified, from performance and security to
scalability, availability and flexible management, within the
context of single-box architecture."
Lenovo For complete results of the survey, "Challenges With Web-enabled
Application Delivery," visit the White Papers section of
http://www.redlinenetworks.com/infocenter/.
Hard Drive About Redline Networks
Travelstar Redline Networks designs and manufactures network appliances
that maximize the performance, flexibility and scalability of
Web-enabled enterprise data centers. The company's family of E/X
enterprise application processors, deployed at corporate data
centers, and T/X Web I/O processors, used by Web sites, enable
users to control and customize any HTTP-based environment while
reducing infrastructure cost and complexity. Redline is a
privately-held company based in Campbell, Calif. For more
information on Redline and its products, visit
www.RedlineNetworks.com.
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Janis Ulevich, 650-329-1590
ulevich@u-o.com
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