The benefits of application acceleration and WAN optimization solutions have been well established within distributed enterprises. Yet, how application acceleration and WAN optimization is implemented within a VM infrastructure is critical to realizing the gains that application acceleration can bring to the enterprises deploying virtualization. Supporting application acceleration within a VM infrastructure as a virtual appliance (VA), as opposed to deploying within a specialized hardware appliance that sits outside the virtual machine infrastructure between the server and the WAN, enables IT managers to meet their consolidation goals and at the same time reap the benefits of reduced application response time. A side benefit to this perfect union is the ability of IT managers to easily facilitate the deployment of virtualized applications from the data center out to remote branch offices.
A true application acceleration virtual appliance runs natively within a virtual machine (VM) infrastructure, not outside of it. It can be loaded as software on a server running virtual machine operating systems such as VMware® Infrastructure (ESX) or Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and provisioned as a true VM. Like its special purpose hardware appliance predecessors, the application acceleration VA accelerates the remote access of all data center-hosted applications, including applications running in virtual machines, by reducing the amount of data traffic over the WAN and, hence, reduces the application response time.
Certeon has recently introduced the industries first virtual appliance which accelerates remote access to applications within VMware Infrastructure and ESX and ESXi environments. Learn more about how aCelera can dramatically improve your remote application access when running VMware ESX and ESXi.
Certeon's aCelera is the first software-based application acceleration and WAN optimization solution to be supported within Hyper-V virtual machines. aCelera software accelerates virtualized application environments in both data centers and remote branch offices. aCelera software runs on industry standard servers and is provisioned using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. aCelera reduces the response time of Microsoft applications such as Office System and MOSS over the WAN by 95%. Learn more about aCelera's support for Microsoft Hyper-V.
"Virtual appliances, such as virtual WOCs, would be of particular interest where server virtualization technology has already been implemented both in the branch office, as well as in the data center. In the branch office, a virtualized server could host a virtual WOC appliance, as well as other virtual appliances that would normally require separate hardware platforms. Part of the promise of these technologies is that when server virtualization pervades the enterprise, application acceleration with virtual WOCs can be rapidly implemented wherever it is needed and without the installation of additional hardware."
Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates.
"Virtual appliances will be the next trend for two reasons. One is because CIOs don't want to put another box out in the branch offices; the more they can minimize the number of servers and not have to pay infrastructure costs, maintenance costs and so on, the better for them."
Robert Laliberte, ESG Analyst
