[October 13, 2009] Certeon Offers Extreme Scalability for Accelerating Applications over the WAN Tweet BURLINGTON, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Certeon (News - Alert), the leading provider of virtual appliance solutions for wide area network (WAN) optimization and application acceleration, announces that it is the most scalable and cost-efficient solution on the market today by enabling over 50 percent more sustained accelerated network connections at greater than 60 percent less cost than proprietary hardware appliances. In some cases, Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance software delivered a more than $3.5 million savings over Riverbed (News - Alert) Steelhead hardware appliances. Data from a recent Tolly Group Test Report (#209129, October 2009) found that Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance (VA) software running on an industry standard server sustained 3,500 concurrent accelerated connections while reducing file transfer times by up to 99 percent over a high latency WAN. This exceeds the published number of network connections supported by other standard competitive hardware appliances, such as Riverbed's Steelhead 1050H appliance (2,300 connections), with similar hardware profiles as the aCelera VA software running on an industry-standard server. Certeon compared the cost of aCelera software installed on an industry-standard server against an equivalent Riverbed Steelhead appliance. Based on the number of connections achieved, this analysis found aCelera software delivers enterprises with 50 percent more connections for greater than 60 percent less cost when compared to Riverbed Steelhead hardware appliances. The Riverbed approach of licensing a specific number of accelerated connections for each Steelhead appliance model forces customers into limiting their WAN optimization scalability options. A Riverbed Steelhead 1050H supports a maximum of 2,300 accelerated connections as per Riverbed's specifications. To achieve equal scalability to the number of connections achieved by aCelera, Riverbed would need to push users into the next level of appliances, the Steelhead 2050M, with a maximum 4,000 connections. This causes a forklift upgrade and dramatically increases the costs. As more and more enterprises are consolidating hardware resources at data centers and branch offices, the Riverbed approach of pushing larger boxes to support more users is counterintuitive and not cost effective. The cost comparison was based on list pricing of the Certeon aCelera software and Riverbed Steelhead 1050H and 2050M appliances in two customer scenarios: one supporting 10,000 users in 50 branch offices and the other supporting 30,000 users in 100 branch offices. In the 10,000 user scenario, the cost for the Certeon aCelera solution is $537,500 versus $1,399,738 for the Riverbed Steelhead 1050H a 62 percent savings. In the 30,000 user scenario, the aCelera solution cost is $1,525,000 versus the Steelhead 2050M cost of $4,399,463 - a 68 percent savings. For more information on this, see Certeon's whitepaper, WAN Optimization - Extreme Scalability for Application Acceleration. Network scalability in WAN optimization and application acceleration is critical to maintaining an efficient, dynamic, and agile infrastructure that can support today's cost- and space-conscious enterprises. Organizations need the flexibility to grow the number of connections/users supported over optimized WANs without having to perform "forklift" upgrades to hardware that is larger, more costly, and often partially underutilized. "Certeon has seen the growing importance of scalability and cost-effectiveness as today's organizations adopt more efficient computing paradigms, such as virtualization and cloud computing," said Peter Dougherty, President and CEO, Certeon. "The analysis between aCelera and Riverbed demonstrates that companies don't have to overpay for underutilized hardware appliances. Using a fully virtualized appliance that offers more flexibility for less cost just makes sense in a world moving progressively toward cloud computing." aCelera software products are the perfect union of virtualization and application acceleration technology, providing businesses with performance, scalability, and easy management. aCelera is system-independent and hypervisor-agnostic. aCelera maximizes application acceleration for all traffic with performance enhancements for mission critical applications and business continuity environments, improving network bandwidth optimization and performance by more than 95 percent. When compared to proprietary hardware appliances, aCelera software saves IT departments more than 60 percent in network optimization capital, operations, and network bandwidth costs. To read more about the Tolly Group report, also announced today, see "Certeon Announces the Findings of a Tolly Group Report Highlighting Extreme Scalability for Virtualized WAN Acceleration." About Certeon Certeon's aCelera software is the first WAN optimization and application acceleration virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, scalability, and manageability when remotely accessing applications throughout a distributed enterprise. aCelera software reduces application response time over the WAN by more than 95 percent without proprietary hardware appliances. aCelera performance scales linearly as more resources are added (i.e., CPU, memory, and disk) and supports up to 50 percent more concurrent accelerated connections than "closed" proprietary hardware appliances. Enterprises and managed service providers can save more than 60 percent in total cost of ownership (TCO) when deploying aCelera software to virtualized infrastructures. aCelera is flexible and easy to deploy, delivering faster, more scalable application acceleration to more users. For more information visit www.certeon.com. ©2009 Certeon Inc. Certeon is a registered trademark and aCelera is a trademark of Certeon Inc. All other company names and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]