Certeon Provides Welocalize with Application Acceleration Worldwide

BURLINGTON, Mass. & FREDERICK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Certeon, the industry’s first vendor to securely accelerate mission-critical applications effectively, today announces that it has been selected by Welocalize, a leader in integrated globalization services, to provide its employees with accelerated access to critical Microsoft^® IIS and SharePoint^® services. Welocalize has dramatically increased its remote worker productivity without incurring additional network infrastructure costs by deploying Certeon S-Series^® Application Acceleration Appliances.

“Certeon enabled us to meet the challenging goals of delivering applications worldwide”

Welocalize offers integrated globalization services for the fluid and rapid deployment of enterprise content and applications to international markets. The company’s services include globalization consulting, translation, localization and testing solutions for business materials and systems including software, multimedia, learning services and mobile applications. In order to deliver SharePoint and IIS services worldwide, Welocalize required a high-performance application acceleration solution that could maximize existing investments in its wide area network (WAN) infrastructure.

In evaluating Certeon’s application acceleration solution, Welocalize also considered adding long haul circuits and MPLS services. However, the cost and time required to provide these solutions to Welocalize’s worldwide locations was not only expensive, but required new hardware, infrastructure changes and extensive coordination of people from around the globe. With Certeon’s S-Series, Welocalize benefited from a high performance solution immediately, without any changes to existing infrastructure and with minimal cost and disruption.

Welocalize uses SharePoint to support its service and solution delivery to customers, manage administrative documents and procedures, administer key internal processes such as IT issue tracking/resolution and training, while providing a platform for worldwide communication and knowledge sharing. Previously, these services were hindered by a slow connection for remote employees over Welocalize’s WAN infrastructure. After deploying Certeon’s S-Series appliances, Welocalize is now able to provide effective SharePoint access to all nine offices in the USA, Europe and Asia.

“Certeon enabled us to meet the challenging goals of delivering applications worldwide,” states Trevor Smith, director of IT Services for Welocalize. “We were able to deploy worldwide SharePoint service within days at a fraction of the cost of any other service or product we tested.”

Trevor Smith continued, “With the S-Series, no infrastructure changes were required and Certeon’s easy door-to-door shipments made it possible for Welocalize to deploy quickly and go from rack mounting to application acceleration in a matter of minutes. I was truly amazed at how ‘plug and play’ it really was.”

“Global enterprises such as Welocalize rely on mission-critical services such as IIS and SharePoint to manage and run their business,” said Peter Dougherty, president and CEO of Certeon. “Certeon maximizes the performance of remote access to these valuable services without increasing data center operational costs and provides businesses with a fast, easy to deploy, and cost-effective solution.”

Certeon offers three models of S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances: the S-1000, S-2000 and S-3000, supporting small branch offices, regional offices and large data centers, respectively. Cereon’s S-Series Appliances are pre-loaded with Application Acceleration Blueprints that contain specific knowledge of applications for turbocharged acceleration across the WAN. Certeon has Application Acceleration Blueprints for: 2007 MOSS and SharePoint Blueprints, Certeon has Application Acceleration Blueprints for Microsoft^® Office^™, Microsoft File Services (CIFS), EMC^® Documentum^® and eRoom^®, as well as Office 2003. Certeon’s S-Series accelerates all WAN traffic including encrypted SSL traffic to ensure end-to-end data security and integrity.

About Certeon

Certeon’s S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances provide the industry’s only solution with Application Intelligent Networking to deliver application acceleration, security and scalability from the desktop to the data center. Certeon’s patent-pending S-Series appliances accelerate all WAN traffic and are optimized for distributed content delivery and collaboration applications such as: enterprise content management, work flow and process management, Web portals and search. S-Series appliances are the only solution to securely accelerate encrypted traffic (SSL) with the same performance improvements as unencrypted traffic. The appliances minimize network traffic to significantly improve application response times, while maintaining end-to-end security. Founded in 2003, Certeon is a private company, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with European offices in The Netherlands. For more information, visit www.certeon.com or call 781-425-5200.

About Welocalize

Welocalize offers Integrated Globalization Services for the fluid and rapid deployment of enterprise content and applications to international markets. In response to unique customer needs, we provide globalization consulting, translation, localization and testing solutions that manage risk, improve repeatability and ensure transfer of knowledge from project to project.

Our clients include AOL, Autodesk, Canon, Cisco Systems, Computer Associates, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Symantec and Xerox. The company maintains offices in Frederick, MD; Portland, OR; Redwood Shores, CA; Seattle, WA; Dublin, Ireland; Tokyo, Japan; Beijing and Jinan, China; and Saarbrücken, Germany. For more information, visit www.welocalize.com or call 800-370-9515 (+1 301-668-0330).