Certeon Announces aCelera Enterprise for Windows; Industry’s First Full-Featured, WAN Optimization Solution Integrated to Windows Server 2008 R2

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Certeon, the application performance company, today announced aCelera Enterprise for Windows, the industry’s first full-featured, WAN optimization solution integrated to Windows Server 2008 R2. This software-based solution is built on Certeon’s unparalleled application acceleration functionality. It includes all of the performance, flexibility and scalability of a hardware solution, but at a fraction of the cost and without the hassle of physical deployments.

“Many companies and service providers are not willing to make hefty hardware investments, especially for offices or customer locations with only a handful of employees”

Certeon’s latest innovation makes application acceleration a reality for locations that either have no virtualization technology deployed, or have a virtualized environment with limited hardware resources. aCelera Enterprise for Windows is also a key component of Windows-based branch-in-a-box solutions and can be used as a convenient and cost effective customer-premise equipment (CPE) option for cloud and other service providers wanting to onboard customers securely.

As companies struggle with latency and accessibility issues in the cloud, application acceleration is being recognized as a real necessity. To address this, cloud providers need a cost-efficient, easily-deployable application acceleration solution with a small footprint. This kind of solution can only be found in a downloadable, pure-software product like Certeon’s aCelera Enterprise for Windows since hardware-based solutions are far too expensive and impractical to deploy, requiring physical appliances to be shipped to each office location.

“Many companies and service providers are not willing to make hefty hardware investments, especially for offices or customer locations with only a handful of employees,” said Peter Dougherty, CEO and co-founder, Certeon. “aCelera Enterprise for Windows is the perfect solution for such instances as it allows a Windows 2008 server that’s already on-premise to be converted into a high-performing accelerator without requiring any additional hardware or hypervisor to run on. This level of innovation and cost-savings makes application acceleration a reality where it was previously thought impossible.”

With this new solution, Certeon rounds out its offerings to provide the most ideal application acceleration solution for any environment – whether global or remote, virtualized or in the cloud – as it addresses the requirements of any company in need of acceleration. For even those companies that do not have virtualization and cannot deploy a hardware solution cost effectively, aCelera Enterprise for Windows offers the ability to consolidate their branch services into a single Windows Server 2008 R2 and simultaneously achieve acceleration.

aCelera Enterprise for Windows enables Microsoft IT shops to strategically deploy secure application acceleration while taking advantage of Microsoft management infrastructure solutions like Windows Update and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). What’s more, since Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) no longer allows non-Microsoft hardware to be stored on their rack, a software-based solution like aCelera Enterprise for Windows is the only option for providing acceleration to BPOS customers.

Certeon’s aCelera is the industry’s only software WAN optimization product that can be deployed cost effectively to any number of branch offices anywhere in the world to accelerate applications and information access across any network. Information on all aCelera products, including aCelera VA, aCelera Sync, aCelera Client and the aCelera Central Management System (CMS) is available by visiting http://certeon.com/products_overview.asp.

About Certeon

Certeon is the application performance company. With Certeon, enterprises and cloud providers successfully realize key initiatives including consolidation, virtualization, replication and application performance SLAs. Certeon aCelera is the only software WAN Optimization product that is hypervisor agnostic, hardware agnostic and cost effective. aCelera’s ability to provide automated, secure and optimal access to centralized applications at the lowest possible TCO makes aCelera a cornerstone of enterprise and cloud provider infrastructures. Additional information about Certeon is available at www.certeon.com.

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