Teneo Launches Web Application Accelerator from Akamai for Accelerating Content and Business Processes Online
Published on: 08 October 2007
Teneo Ltd, the specialist provider of network management and application performance optimization solutions, has launched an application performance service from Akamai for accelerating content and business processes online.
With IT performance intrinsically linked to user productivity, providing fast and responsive applications for users is imperative. Whilst Teneo already provides solutions for improving performance of networked applications such as MS Office and Exchange, web based applications that rely on the fabric of the internet present a different set of challenges.
Akamai's Web Application Accelerator gives users worldwide a faster, more reliable application experience by applying acceleration and route optimization technologies on the Akamai platform. It's a convenient managed service that addresses core Internet issues that no hardware appliance can solve. With Akamai's Web Application Accelerator, you get the response times, security, and availability that drive application adoption and productivity - without a big IT investment. Akamai offers an alternative to infrastructure build out allowing IT functions to adopt a more centralized approach to their IT strategy and delivery.
Akamai Web Application Accelerator speeds performance of dynamic, interactive Web applications without requiring additional infrastructure by taking a fundamentally different approach to application delivery, employing techniques such as dynamic mapping and routing, along with caching and connection optimization.
How Akamai's Web Application Accelerator Works
Requests and application responses between users and your origin server are sent over the Akamai platform. It's the world's largest fault-tolerant network, comprising of 25,000 servers in 69 countries spanning 1100 plus networks. When a user requests an application, dynamic mapping technology directs the request to the closest Akamai server. Using route optimization, Akamai identify the fastest, most reliable path back to the server over the internet to retrieve the application content, and employ connection techniques to optimize communication between servers, improving performance and reliability of both retrieval and delivery. Access control features ensure application security is maintained throughout the process.
Why accelerate Web applications?
- More control over the delivery of your applications
- Optimized delivery means faster performance
- The Akamai platform handles peak usage easily
- IT burden drops - no additional hardware
Akamai's Web Application Accelerator can be used for a variety of applications, including customer-facing portals, collaboration platforms, e-learning environments and business-to-business commerce applications. Akamai already accelerate a number of applications globally spanning all business functions and process including BI, ERP, CRM, DRM, CMS, SCM, PLM to name a few.
Piers Carey, CEO from Teneo commented
"Akamai's Web Application Accelerator (WAA) is an exciting new offering that will help our customers maximize the performance of their online business and experience greater performance and improved reporting for their mission-critical Web-based applications. This is a cost effective solution that gives the response times, security, and availability that drive application adoption and productivity without the huge IT investment!"
