Certeon Delivers Industry's First Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, May 19 2008

Ends the Era of Proprietary Application Acceleration Appliances.

BURLINGTON, Mass. - May 19, 2008 - 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.

With IT managers rapidly migrating to virtualized environments, distributed enterprises require an application acceleration solution that leverages the ease of use, scalability and flexibility of their virtualized infrastructure while delivering the same remote access performance benefits provided by traditional application acceleration.  Certeon's aCelera software meets this need by providing an application acceleration virtual appliance that runs natively within a virtual machine infrastructure.  Now IT managers can quickly and easily download and deploy high-performance virtualized acceleration environments for remote users and reduce the amount of costly, energy- consuming single purpose hardware in data centers and remote offices.

VIRTERA (formerly CRI Technologies), a leading virtualization professional services company focused on assessing, designing, architecting, implementing and managing virtualized environments, is a strategic partner and was a beta test site for aCelera.  Howard Pavony, CEO of VIRTERA, states: "As organizations consolidate servers, desktops and applications using virtualization, they place excessive strain on their corporate networks.  The combination of aCelera products and VIRTERA professional services create an ideal solution for alleviating this network strain while ensuring that enterprises experience a successful virtualization deployment that meets their core business objectives."

aCelera improves the performance of all remotely accessed applications while turbo-charging such mission critical applications as enterprise content management, Web-based collaboration, and product life cycle management.  aCelera Virtual Appliances are optimized to accelerate remote access to Microsoft® OfficeTM, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS), EMC® Documentum® and eRoom®, UGS Solid EdgeTM, as well as many other distributed applications. 

"IT managers are currently saddled with multiple proprietary appliances in data centers and branch offices-each requiring costly and separate deployments, maintenance and management," said Peter Dougherty, president and CEO of Certeon.  "The rise of virtualization as a mainstream infrastructure means the demise of proprietary appliances for acceleration and other functions.  Certeon's aCelera provides a cost efficient and easy to manage virtual appliance that optimizes end user application response times."

aCelera Virtual Appliance software is the perfect union of virtualization and application acceleration technology and delivers a combination of performance, scalability, flexibility and easy management. 

Performance:

• aCelera delivers up to a 95 percent reduction in application response times to remote branch office users.  

Scalability:

• aCelera allows more users faster access to virtualized applications and system resources across the WAN.

Flexibility:

• aCelera software will run on any standard x86 system and allows enterprises to mix and match application acceleration solutions for virtualized and non-virtualized environments.

Management:

• aCelera provides centralized provisioning and is integrated with VMware Virtual Center to enable IT managers to allocate and manage application performance resources wherever needed.

"Virtualization and consolidation are major catalysts in changing the way IT delivers services to the business. This is especially true in remote or branch offices as applications are consolidated back to a centralized data center and hosted on virtualized infrastructure," said Bob Laliberte, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "Those companies need innovative solutions to guarantee application performance at remote sites, without creating an additional infrastructure burden. Certeon provides an application acceleration solution packaged in a virtual appliance that enhances application response time and minimizes the infrastructure required at remote sites."

Certeon's aCelera software enables fast and effective application deployment across the distributed enterprise and within virtualized and non-virtualized environments, resulting in increased user productivity and lower total cost of ownership. 

VMware Certified

Certeon is a VMware Select Technology Alliance Partner as announced in: http://www.certeon.com/VMWare_Certification, and its aCelera Virtual Appliance has achieved  certification for VMware ESX and ESXi.

Availability and Pricing

aCelera is available now as downloadable software from Certeon and the VMware Virtual Marketplace web sites.  aCelera supports VMware today and will support Microsoft Hyper-V when available.  Pricing for aCelera Virtual Appliance software starts at $2,495. 

About Certeon

Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance software is the industry's first and only virtual appliance to deliver 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.  Founded in 2003, Certeon is a private company, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.  For more information, visit www.certeon.com or call 781-425-5200.