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.
Register to download this white paper.
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.
Register to download this white paper.
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.
Register to download this white paper.
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.
Register to download this white paper.
Documentum Performance Acceleration with Certeon S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances: A Detailed Review
An in-depth look at how Documentum 5.3 and 6.0 file access response time performance over the wide area network (WAN), for both encrypted and unencrypted traffic, can be significantly optimized by Certeon's S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances. The performance test results presented in this paper demonstrate how including the S-Series within distributed Documentum environments can eliminate the inherent issues of the WAN, such as low bandwidth, high latency, packet loss, and network contention, and deliver a more than 90 percent improvement in overall response time performance.
Download the performance report as a PDF document. 
Summary Report: Demonstrating the Benefits of Certeon S-Series Application Acceleration with the Network Physics NetSensory Solution Insight for Certeon
Using a Network Physics NetSensory Appliance to audit and baseline your network can quickly show you how and where the Certeon appliance can accelerate your Microsoft SharePoint traffic, giving you better performance and network utilization without redesigning your network or increasing your network operating costs.
Download the summary report as a PDF document.
The Tolly Group Evaluates S-Series Capabilities Performance Report
Application acceleration appliances must be able to demonstrate speed, security and scalability to be effective for enterprise and service provider customers alike. The combination of those three capabilities will enable more users at remote sites to obtain high-quality access to the data center; while performance is dramatically improved over congested network links. This independent performance evaluation of Certeon's S-Series Appliance Acceleration Appliance by The Tolly Group demonstrates that Certeon succeeds in delivering outstanding results in maximizing the performance, security and scalability of accessing remote applications over a WAN.
Download the performance report as a PDF document.
Data Reduction through Application Object Differencing
Unlike conventional data reduction solutions, Certeon's aCelera software utilizes 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 aCelera's application object layer techniques are superior to conventional methods in achieving maximum data reduction and application delivery performance.
Register to download this white paper.
documents require the Adobe Reader. Download the reader for free.
