December 16, 2008 - Why WLAN/WAN, WAN optimization spending will increase during bad economic times
Last time, we discussed which IT initiatives we believed would experience the biggest budget increases in 2009. We based that on our surveys of two separate audiences - one primarily made up of U.S. IT execs and the other of European IT execs. The infrastructure initiative that is likely to experience the greatest increase in funding is virtualization, followed by wireless LAN/WANs and WAN optimization. The driver for growth in WLAN/WAN is mobility and the driver for WAN optimization is cost avoidance.
December 10, 2008 - Certeon's aCelera Rated Among Top 5 VMware Virtual Appliances
VMware launched its "Virtual Appliance Marketplace" Nov. 7, 2006, offering prebuilt, ready-to-run enterprise software applications packaged with an operating system for download on a trial basis. Of the more than 300 virtual appliances, 39 are currently "certified production-ready" as part of a VMware program that promotes products that are ready for production. Although only under way for a month, products are getting rated. Here are the top five so far.
December 8, 2008 - SHIFT Communications Deploys Certeon's aCelera to Enhance Remote Application Access and Performance
Certeon, the industry's first and only vendor to offer a virtualized appliance for application acceleration, today announced that SHIFT Communications, an award-winning independent PR agency in North America, has selected Certeon's aCelera virtual appliance to dramatically improve remote file accessibility for its employees in Boston and San Francisco. Certeon's aCelera delivers application acceleration by deploying software inside a virtual infrastructure - an ideal solution for SHIFT as it looked to optimize remote access performance over the wide area network (WAN).
December 8, 2008 - Certeon: Where Virtualization is Headed in 2009
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Contributed by Shawn Cooney, Co-Founder and Director of Research, Certeon
The dynamic enterprise has long been sought after by IT managers. But until recently, legacy system sprawl has prevented the truly dynamic enterprise to take hold. Because vendors hawking proprietary appliances had so much invested in the game, they continued to churn out products that only added to the system sprawl and increased vendor lock-in. This situation created a complex mesh of enterprise technologies that were expensive to build and were not delivering true business value. With the emergence of virtualization, the promises of the dynamic enterprise are within reach, but only if the market continues to move forward and extend virtualization beyond the data center server. The year 2008 was heavily focused on virtualizing data centers all over the world-which resulted in big savings, and a solid foundation for the next stage of the enterprise. But this foundation, while an important start, won't make today's enterprise as dynamic as it could be until virtualization technologies extend well beyond the parameters of the datacenter.
December 4, 2008 - Predicting the Future
Prediction: Virtualization Breaks Datacenter Boundaries and Provides a Fluid Resource for Global Workers
By Shawn Cooney
Through 2008, the focus of most virtualization technology and virtualization projects has been directed at the more than one hundred thousand datacenters that exist around the globe. Virtualization magic applied to datacenters produced 3X to 20X consolidation ratios maximizing CPU, memory and storage utilization. This Virtualization 1.0 result represents both huge savings and a great foundation for a next generation dynamic enterprise. This foundation step, however, will not deliver on the vision of a dynamic enterprise until virtualization technologies break out of the bounds of the datacenter.
November 18, 2008 - Certeon Selected As Expert Speaker for the Virtualization Conference and Expo
Certeon, the industry's first vendor to offer a virtualized appliance for application acceleration, today announces that Co-Founder and Director of Research Shawn Cooney will speak at the Virtualization Conference and Expo West on November 19, 2008 in San Jose, CA. Certeon was selected to present on virtualization strategies following its successful participation at the Virtualization Conference and Expo this June.
October 27, 2008 - ROI potential keeps WAN optimization projects on the table
In the last newsletter I wrote about quarterly results reported by F5 Networks, Citrix Systems and Riverbed Technology. But quarterly results don't tell the whole story - particularly when the economy has changed so dramatically in the few weeks following the close of the last calendar-year quarter on Sept. 30.
To learn more about how WAN optimization and application acceleration projects are faring in today's economic environment, I asked readers to share their opinions on which IT projects take priority in a budget-constrained environment. A handful of IT suppliers responded with their take on customers' spending plans, as well as the attributes of WAN optimization technologies that are helping to insulate vendors from spending slowdowns...
September 22, 2008 - Large Enterprise SharePoint(MOSS) deployment
MOSS has highly configurable and flexible architecture that can easily accommodate some of most challenging collaboration requirements in large enterprises. One of the biggest benefits to leveraging MOSS as opposed to developing your own architecture for portal/collaboration solutions is the prepackaged saleable design of MOSS that you get out of the box. However as with many large enterprises one of the more complex design choices is on how to make the collaboration solution available to its geographically distributed workforce. Broadly the choices would be to either adopt one of the following options
September 15, 2008 - Certeon Announces Strategic Reseller Partnerships with Champion Solutions Group and Nth Generation
Certeon, the industry's first vendor to offer a virtualized appliance for application acceleration, today announces the addition of Champion Solutions Group and Nth Generation to its Partner Acceleration program as Regional Reseller Partners. These strategic reseller partnerships further Certeon's presence and penetration in the application acceleration space while providing Champion and Nth Generation customers the ability to speed application delivery in an increasingly virtualized world. Unlike proprietary appliances for acceleration from other vendors, Certeon's acceleration solution is software based and requires no additional hardware in the branch or data center. Certeon and its two new partners will be attending VMworld 2008 from September 15-18 in Las Vegas. Certeon will be demonstrating the performance of its aCeleraT Virtual Appliance for VMware at the conference.
September 9, 2008 - Virtualization Gets Some Remote Access Acceleration
It seems like every where you go these days virtualization is transforming one part of the enterprise or another. The latest part of the enterprise set to undergo virtualization is the remote office following the launch of an offering called aCelera from a company named Certeon.
August 8, 2008 - Going Virtual: Certeon Accelerates Wide-Area Application Access
What are the biggest IT-related issues facing today's small to midsized enterprise?
As company locations and workforces are becoming highly distributed, IT is looking to control budget costs and infrastructure management by consolidating servers, applications, and data, often through the use of virtualization.
"Centralizing IT means that more and more remote workers have to access applications over wide-area connections, and the more they do, the more they run into congestion, latency, and bandwidth constraints," says Taube. "Large files such as CAD/CAM drawings can take minutes, even hours, to be moved, slowing work turnaround, and wide-area access can also slow down the lookup time for online interactive activity."
August 2, 2008 - Certeon's virtual appliance provides application acceleration
Wide Area Network (WAN) acceleration vendor Certeon has come out with what it calls the industry's first and only true virtual appliance for application acceleration. The company's acceleration product was designed with virtualization in mind and it is certified to work with VMware, the current virtualization market leader.
June 3, 2008 - Certeon draws on the advantages of virtualized WTO software over hardware
Certeon has released its new aCelera software. The company refers to the aCelera products as 'virtual appliances.' In other words, rather than being sold in the form of appliances where the software is pre-installed on more or less proprietary hardware, aCelera products are downloadable. The 'virtual' in 'virtual appliance' is a backhanded reference to the rise of virtual servers and the flexibility virtualization gives software to share server resources or combine multiple servers for efficiency, high availability, load balancing and enhanced management. Virtualized environments support painless, nearly instantaneous software deployment. Hardware appliances, on the other hand, require shipping and physical handling that can be time-consuming and difficult to synchronize.
June 2, 2008 - Losing the Hardware
In a small victory in the war against data center clutter, Burlington, Mass.-based Certeon Inc. is dropping its Linux-based hardware appliance. It will now accelerate WAN apps with aCelera, a virtual machine.
Another plus of going all-software is price. Certeon's S-Series appliances started at $6,000, whereas an aCelera VM starts at $2,495.
And the performance difference is negligible, according to Gareth Taube, vice president of marketing.
May 23, 2008 - CTO Buccella brings deep experience to Certeon
The technology gene has always been part of Donato Buccella's DNA. Being involved in technology companies is something he has seen himself doing for as long as he can remember, he says. The industry veteran has a long track record of such involvement and continues to immerse himself in new technology, this time with a new position as chief technology officer of Certeon Inc.
May 28, 2008 - Certeon Nominated for SYS-CON's "Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards"
aCelera Virtual Appliance software is a virtual appliance that delivers acceleration, virtualization and manageability when remotely accessing applications throughout a distributed enterprise. aCelera Virtual Appliances reduce application response time over the WAN by more than 95% without proprietary hardware appliances. aCelera is optimized for mission critical applications such as: enterprise content management, Web-based collaboration, and wide area file services. aCelera is flexible and easy to deploy delivering faster, more scalable applications, and enabling greater user productivity.
May 27, 2008 - Certeon's aCelera Application Acceleration Appliance
The good folks from Certeon brought their new aCelera application acceleration software appliance to my attention a short while ago. After my recent conversation with Coyote Point, it's beginning to appear that protocol and data caching and optimization tools are going to be the trend du mois. Certeon believes it can accelerate typical application environments by reducing the impact of WAN latency, pack loss, and contention by applying a great deal of intelligence to the data stream. In my experience, network I/O traffic is the first place to look when an organization is trying to deal with application performance issues.
May 23, 2008 - Application Acceleration Looks to Go Virtual
... But hardware-based appliances are expensive, and hardware application acceleration appliance vendor Certeon recently unveiled a virtual appliance that does the job and cuts costs.
May 20, 2008 - Certeon Speeds Up Virtual Apps
In an attempt to put an end to an IT manager's reliance on proprietary WAN application acceleration appliances, startup Certeon has developed what it claims is the world's first virtual appliance for speeding up applications.
May 20, 2008 -Application Acceleration Goes Virtual
Virtualization has moved beyond applications themselves to software that makes those applications run faster over a network. WAN (wide-area network) acceleration vendor Certeon on Monday introduced aCelera, an application-acceleration platform that comes without hardware and is designed to run on servers virtualized with VMware and with Microsoft's upcoming Hyper-V technology.
May 20, 2008 - Application acceleration goes virtual - Certeon unveils an application-acceleration platform designed to run on servers virtualized with VMware and with Microsoft's upcoming Hyper-V technology
Virtualization has moved beyond applications themselves to software that makes those applications run faster over a network. WAN (wide-area network) acceleration vendor Certeon on Monday introduced aCelera, an application-acceleration platform that comes without hardware and is designed to run on servers virtualized with VMware and with Microsoft's upcoming Hyper-V technology.
May 20, 2008 - Certeon goes virtual with application acceleration appliance - New aCelera software product is designed for virtualized environments
Server virtualization technology is changing the way enterprises deploy applications - and it's changing the way they view single-function hardware appliances. For companies looking to cut back on branch-office (and data center) hardware, Certeon this week announced a new application acceleration product that's all software and is designed to be deployed in a virtual server infrastructure.
May 20, 2008 - Application Acceleration Goes Virtual
Virtualization has moved beyond applications themselves to software that makes those applications run faster over a network. WAN (wide-area network) acceleration vendor Certeon on Monday introduced aCelera, an application-acceleration platform that comes without hardware and is designed to run on servers virtualized with VMware and with Microsoft's upcoming Hyper-V technology.
May 19, 2008 - Certeon Delivers Industry's First Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration.
Certeon today announced it has ended the era of proprietary application acceleration appliances with the launch of the industry's first and only true virtual appliance for application acceleration. Certeon's aCelera(TM) Virtual Appliance software delivers up to a 95% reduction in application response time for applications being accessed across the wide area network (WAN), with the added benefit of eliminating the hardware footprint and high cost of separately managed, single-purpose hardware appliances.
May 19, 2008 - Certeon Delivers Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration.
Certeon today announced it has ended the era of proprietary application acceleration appliances with the launch of the industry's first and only true virtual appliance for application acceleration. Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance software delivers up to a 95 percent reduction in application response time for applications being accessed across the wide area network (WAN), with the added benefit of eliminating the hardware footprint and high cost of separately managed, single-purpose hardware appliances.
May 19, 2008 - Certeon Delivers Industry's First Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration - Ends the Era of Proprietary Application Acceleration Appliances.
Certeon today announced it has ended the era of proprietary application acceleration appliances with the launch of the industry's first and only true virtual appliance for application acceleration. Certeon's aCeleraTM Virtual Appliance software delivers up to a 95% reduction in application response time for applications being accessed across the wide area network (WAN), with the added benefit of eliminating the hardware footprint and high cost of separately managed, single-purpose hardware appliances.
May 19, 2008 - Certeon Delivers Industry's First Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration
Certeon today announced it has ended the era of proprietary application acceleration appliances with the launch of the industry's first and only true virtual appliance for application acceleration. Certeon's aCelera(TM) Virtual Appliance software delivers up to a 95% reduction in application response time for applications being accessed across the wide area network (WAN), with the added benefit of eliminating the hardware footprint and high cost of separately managed, single-purpose hardware appliances.
May 19, 2008 - Certeon Delivers Virtual Appliance
Certeon today announced it has ended the era of proprietary application acceleration appliances with the launch of the industry's first and only true virtual appliance for application acceleration. Certeon's aCeleraT Virtual Appliance software delivers up to a 95% reduction in application response time for applications being accessed across the wide area network (WAN), with the added benefit of eliminating the hardware footprint and high cost of separately managed, single-purpose hardware appliances.
May 6, 2008 - Welocalize Deploys Certeon S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances
Welocalize, an integrated globalization services provider, has picked Certeon to provide its employees with accelerated access to critical Microsoft IIS and SharePoint services. By deploying Certeon S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances, Welocalize has been able to dramatically increase its remote worker productivity without incurring additional network infrastructure costs.
April 14, 2008 - Information Technology Service Provider Will Employ S-Series Application Acceleration to Speed Global Customer Collaboration
Certeon, the industry's only vendor to securely accelerate mission-critical applications effectively, today announces the addition of BrightPlanIT to its Partner Acceleration Program. BrightPlanIT is leveraging Certeon's S-Series(TM) Appliances to enhance the productivity of its global customers' mission-critical applications over the Wide Area Network (WAN).
March 31, 2008 - Application Acceleration: The Digital Drag Race
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.
March 23, 2008 - Optimizing the WAN for SharePoint
The days of the centralized corporate workforce are waning. In a recent briefing, Gareth Taube, Vice President of Marketing for Certeon (www.certeon.com), said that there's evidence that more than 60 percent of employees of major corporations are located outside of corporate headquarters. As businesses become more and more decentralized, they must learn to meet the challenges of supporting globally distributed workforces. Unfortunately, most companies have taken applications that were originally designed to run on a LAN and made them accessible to remote workers. "When you do that, the WAN gets in the way," said Taube. "Networks are usually bandwith-constrained, they have lots of latency, and they have lots of packet loss. Large documents can take minutes instead of seconds to move across the WAN, and that's painful. So people tend to replicate files and store them locally, which defeats the purpose of having a Web tool environment and tools such as SharePoint for collaboration."
March 17, 2008 - Certeon Extends Global Reach with Addition to Partner Program
Certeon, the industry's only vendor to securely accelerate mission-critical applications effectively, today announces it has extended its global presence into New Zealand with the addition of IGAsystems to its Partner Acceleration Program as a systems integrator. IGAsystems extends Certeon's global reach by leveraging Certeon's S-Series(TM) Appliances to reduce the response time of its customers' content and application delivery to remote and regional branch offices.
January 28, 2008 - Certeon to Co-Host Webinar on Securely Accelerating Content Access within a Distributed Enterprise
Certeon, the industry's only vendor to securely accelerate mission-critical applications effectively, and Kevin Roden, who boasts extensive experience in reducing the costs and risks of information protection and storage as the former CIO of Iron Mountain, will co-host a Webinar on best practices for securely accelerating content access within a distributed enterprise. This is the second time the Webinar will be conducted this year due to the popularity of the first session.
January 9, 2008 - New Webcast! Securely Accelerating Content Access within a Distributed Enterprise sponsored by Certeon
Today's enterprises are increasingly concerned about the lack of performance and security in accessing content over a WAN. Our guest speaker, Kevin Roden, co-Founder of New Boston Partners and former CIO of Iron Mountain, will discuss end users issues in accessing secure content and data remotely and suggest ways for IT managers to solve the dual problems of accelerating information access while maintaining data security and integrity. Learn how to securely accelerate content to remote offices over the WAN without impacting data integrity.
January 7, 2008 - Security brought to light; IPSec VPN provides users with either Web-delivered "thin client" or clientless browser access
Like many rapidly growing retailers, Seattle Lighting has had to ramp up its technology to meet its expanding business goals. The secret, says IT manager Pat Beemer, is in finding solutions that users will adopt-and IT can deploy-without creating more problems than they solve.
January 4, 2008 - Webinar: Improving Content Access within a Distributed Enterprise
Is your enterprise intranet spread across a wide area network (WAN)? Are you concerned with distributing your secure content across this network without affecting performance? According to a survey of 550 enterprise content management executives, the key issues they are facing today include improving application response time and security. Certeon, a provider of Application Acceleration Appliances, is co-hosting a webinar with the former CIO of Iron Mountain, which should provide some insights into these two issues.
January 2, 2008 - The Road to Enterprise Web 2.0: Bumpy and Still Under Construction
In order for Web 2.0 applications to reach their potential, enterprises need to find a way to maximize existing delivery resources. A common solution is to deploy LAN acceleration appliances worldwide, Certeon's Gareth Taube said. Because an application acceleration appliance compresses data sent over the WAN and speeds its delivery, it stands as one viable method of enabling the Web 2.0 enterprise.
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