To meet both the cost savings and the performance needs of these distributed and virtualized application environments, Certeon has introduced aCelera, the first application acceleration virtual appliance with Application Acceleration Blueprints for Office, MOSS, and Exchange. aCelera software is supported on virtual operating systems such as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX and ESXi and delivers a 95% reduction in application response time over the WAN.
aCelera accelerates the document flow between centralized Microsoft Office System applications such as Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, InfoPath®, Project, Visio, Publisher, and SharePoint and Exchange server farms by minimizing network traffic, decreasing the number of packet flows across the network, and reducing application chattiness. The result is dramatically reduced application response time and exceptional scalability.
Stream based differencing
Application acceleration is all about reducing application response time. aCelera’s application acceleration is different from what is typically referred to as appliance-based WAN optimization in that it not only performs data packet compression, caching, and protocol optimization, but also knows enough about an application’s semantics to effectively reduce the amount of application traffic being transmitted over the WAN. Effective application acceleration techniques, such as Certeon’s unique Stream Based Differencing, can identify and reduce application traffic to only the essential data objects (i.e., changes). By reducing the amount of data traffic sent over the WAN, application response time can be dramatically improved.
With its application fluency, aCelera understands how these elements are used and thus can make a more accurate identification of these data streams and enable industry-leading acceleration. Customers will be able to consolidate MOSS and Exchangeservers into centralized data centers without sacrificing performance for remote branch users.
Performance
Certeon’s aCelera accelerates the full range of protocols and file system formats employed by Microsoft Office 2007, MOSS, and Exchange.
Certeon’s Application Acceleration Blueprints securely accelerate access to Office Open XML documents (including .docx, .xlsx, .pptx) and dynamically generated MOSS Web pages.
Unlike other WAN optimization or application acceleration solutions, aCelera has a deep understanding of SharePoint and MOSS application objects, protocols, and network semantics. The result is a dramatic reduction in the data that needs to be sent over a WAN, and turbocharged acceleration for SharePoint and MOSS applications.
- Reduce application response time over the WAN by 95%
- Increase the scalability of Microsoft application environments
- Consolidate Microsoft application servers and speed remote access to these environments
- Create a high performance, flexible, scalable, and easy to manage virtual infrastructure
In performance tests where multiple MOSS and Exchange/Outlook file types and sizes were accessed over the WAN, aCelera enabled an average 95% improvement in remote access performance