This IDC study analyzes the WAN optimization management market and forecasts the market size for 2005?2009. Vincent Lui, senior analyst, IDC's Network Management service, said, "IT managers are becoming more aware of today's WAN optimization technologies and what these technologies can do to improve the bottom line. Rather than treating it as a simple spending-decision exercise, IT organizations view WAN optimization technology as a means to improve their network and application performance, and ultimately the user experience and productivity of the global workforce."