Certeon announced it has ended the era of proprietary application acceleration appliances with the launch of a virtual appliance for application acceleration. Certeon’s aCelera 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 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 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 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 Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), EMC Documentum and eRoom, UGS Solid Edge, 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.

“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.