Securely Accelerating Data Access within the Distributed Environment
Authored by Shawn Cooney, Founder and Director of Research, Certeon, Inc.
Accelerated access to confidential information within a distributed enterprise should create no greater risk than accelerated access to nonsecure information, and should carry equal protection. However, lines have been drawn between the performance and security levels of the data center and the remote branch office, making the distributed enterprise a major battleground when it comes to providing unified high-performance access and risk management for mission critical data. With more and more information being accessed by remote office workers and an increased focus on enterprise risk management by corporate compliance and governance initiatives, enterprises need an “application intelligent” wide area network (WAN) infrastructure to address both the performance and security issues behind data access. This white paper discusses how distributed enterprises can seamlessly deploy a high-performance, secure, and compliant application intelligent WAN infrastructure.
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Securely Accelerating Today's Web-based Business
Global enterprises are increasingly leveraging the ubiquitous presence of the network to transact business and enable business-critical functions over the Web. Unfortunately, businesses have quickly discovered that globally deployed Web applications offer their own set of challenges, specifically in application performance and security. Many WAN optimization vendors make claims of alleviating the performance degradation of both unencrypted (HTTP) and encrypted (HTTPS) traffic over the WAN through a variety of application and protocol optimization techniques, including support for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. However, as demonstrated in the recent Network World WAN acceleration test results, just supporting the SSL protocol does not mean that a WAN optimization solution is truly accelerating encrypted traffic and unencrypted traffic equally. This whitepaper discusses how Certeon meets this application acceleration challenge for both secure and unsecure traffic.
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Content Security At the Fulcrum of Innovation and Risk
Authored by AIIM Market Intelligence Division Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen
Securing online content is not a new concept. IT departments have been securing data since the first time-shared mainframe was deployed, perhaps earlier. Operating systems and databases have been providing read/write access control lists (ACLs) for decades. But much has changed since these early days of computing in terms of:
This AIIM Market IQ is focused on the art and science of securing electronic content, via a hybrid, strategy driven model that we have labeled Content Security. Two basic sources of input were used in constructing this report. The first was the accumulated experience and ongoing market analysis work performed by the AIIM Market Intelligence Division. The second was an AIIM Market Intelligence developed and administered survey. The survey was taken by 600 individuals between 8/25 - 9/14/2007.
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Accelerating Enterprise Content Management over the WAN
Global enterprises are heavily investing in enterprise content management (ECM) technologies to capture, organize, search, access, and share documents and records. The majority of these infrastructures rely on Web-based collaborative solutions such as EMC Documentum and eRoom and Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) which enable global access to their ECM applications and content over a wide area network (WAN). Despite these efforts, the inherent issues of the WAN, such as low bandwidth, high latency, packet loss, network contention, and lack of end-to-end security greatly impede the performance and security of these EMC infrastructures.
This whitepaper discusses how to seamlessly deploy high performance and secure global ECM infrastructures over a WAN without modifying servers, clients, or applications.
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Accelerating Access to Enterprise Files over a WAN
In enterprises today, there is a growing need to share and co-develop documents and files of various types. These include generalized productivity documents, such as Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files, as well as files for more specialized applications in science, engineering, and graphic design. Increasingly, the challenge is to provide interactive access to these files by individual workers who are geographically dispersed across headquarters, regional, and branch office locations.
This paper explores common methodologies used in today's distributed enterprise environments to provide access to these shared files. Legacy file protocols, such as CIFS, as well as emerging HTTP-based technologies will be discussed. This paper will then discuss key technologies that are coming into play for accelerating shared access to files across the WAN and, specifically, how Certeon has uniquely implemented these technologies within its S-SeriesT Application Acceleration Appliances to realize significant gains in file access performance.
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Deploying Certeon S-Series Appliances in Global Networks
Certeon S-Series appliances integrate seamlessly into your network requiring no changes to your application code, no re-configuration of your servers or desktops, and no client software. No changes are needed to existing IP addresses of clients or servers. In many cases, your branch office personnel may only need to plug it in and connect the cabling. This guide will show you how easy and seamlessly Certeon S-Series appliances can be deployed into your exiting network.
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Data Reduction through Application Object Differencing
Unlike conventional data reduction solutions, the Certeon® S-Series® Application Acceleration Appliances utilize a unique method for data reduction by isolating and differencing data on an application object basis. This approach of Application Intelligent Networking?, which is based on specific knowledge of application objects, represents a dramatically new and more efficient way to reduce application data and thus application response times.
This paper illustrates the benefits of data reduction as the key technique in accelerating application performance to remote offices, and how the S-Series application object layer techniques are superior to conventional methods in achieving maximum data reduction and application delivery performance.
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Closing the WAN Intelligence Gap
The primary goal of any IT organization is to ensure that the applications that the company uses to run its business can be accessed securely and that the response time and availability of those applications are acceptable. While achieving the IT Goal has never been easy, there are some fundamental shifts under way in both the technology and business environments that are making achieving that goal significantly more difficult.
This white paper will describe these shifts and will illustrate the demands that these shifts are making on the Wide Area Network (WAN) and describe the fact that the intelligence that has been deployed in the WAN over the last several years is not sufficient to support these new demands. Having identified the WAN intelligence gap, this white paper will conclude by outlining an approach to optimizing the performance of applications that will enable IT organizations to close this gap.
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Certeon S-Series Technical Architecture
Certeon's S-Series™ is the first application-intelligent application acceleration appliance that incorporates a wide range of WAN optimization and application acceleration and security techniques to effectively meet the performance and security demands of remotely accessed line-of-business (LOB) applications. The S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances with embedded application intelligence are based upon Certeon's patent-pending Secure Acceleration TechnologyT and were designed to negate the impact of WAN issues such as low bandwidth, high latency, packet loss, and contention on application response times.
This white paper summarizes the S-Series network and application acceleration techniques and presents the S-Series architecture and its key components.
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Accelerating Line-of-Business Applications in the WAN-Challenged Remote Office
The problem of slow application response times for branch office employees working over a WAN is well recognized in the IT community. So well in fact, that it's become accepted as part of the IT landscape. A branch office employee updating a customer record from a remote office might wait 20 seconds for an application to respond, while a local agent gets the same data almost instantly. And sometimes it's even worse. Plenty of WAN acceleration solutions abound, but each comes with a catch: higher cost, less control, security risks.
This White Paper examines the WAN issues that directly affect application performance along with the various techniques that can be applied to better utilize the WAN and improve application response times.
