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04-01-2008, 10:08 AM
s corporations branch out to offices across the globe, they must send more and more data over an increasingly clogged network. More bandwidth usually means more speed, but strategies are emerging to push data even faster. That's where application acceleration comes into play.
Computer technology in the workplace is all about hardware speed and connection bandwidth. To help IT managers augment their systems in both regards, vendors have been developing tweaking strategies to boost application speed beyond design limits. This process is called "application acceleration."
However, this race has changed quite a bit over the past few months. Some vendors jumped ship while others changed strategy entirely. By and large, customers are screaming for more simplicity across the board when it comes to application acceleration.
Until now, the mainstay of the application acceleration industry was rooted in the appliance. This hardware served to hypercharge the use of data within a program. Now, other vendors have concocted ways to hype the speed factor without adding an appliance. For instance, managed services, consolidated appliances, virtualization and other new approaches to application acceleration attempt to eliminate the need for an appliance all together.
However, there is one simple approach to application acceleration that is perhaps being overlooked by all but a small handful of innovators. It's a huge labyrinth of a network available to the public via the Internet as a viable network for B2B (business-to-business) application acceleration. Concerns over security Free Trial. Security Software As A Service From Webroot. issues and reliability in remote locations previously kept adopters away. However, those challenges are solvable, according to Akamai, which developed its own network for B2B application performance solutions.
"This network is a unique approach to provide a managed service rather than a hardware distribution," Willie Tejada, vice president of application acceleration for Akamai
Computer technology in the workplace is all about hardware speed and connection bandwidth. To help IT managers augment their systems in both regards, vendors have been developing tweaking strategies to boost application speed beyond design limits. This process is called "application acceleration."
However, this race has changed quite a bit over the past few months. Some vendors jumped ship while others changed strategy entirely. By and large, customers are screaming for more simplicity across the board when it comes to application acceleration.
Until now, the mainstay of the application acceleration industry was rooted in the appliance. This hardware served to hypercharge the use of data within a program. Now, other vendors have concocted ways to hype the speed factor without adding an appliance. For instance, managed services, consolidated appliances, virtualization and other new approaches to application acceleration attempt to eliminate the need for an appliance all together.
However, there is one simple approach to application acceleration that is perhaps being overlooked by all but a small handful of innovators. It's a huge labyrinth of a network available to the public via the Internet as a viable network for B2B (business-to-business) application acceleration. Concerns over security Free Trial. Security Software As A Service From Webroot. issues and reliability in remote locations previously kept adopters away. However, those challenges are solvable, according to Akamai, which developed its own network for B2B application performance solutions.
"This network is a unique approach to provide a managed service rather than a hardware distribution," Willie Tejada, vice president of application acceleration for Akamai