Applications are being consolidated, centralised and outsourced. In many cases, consolidated applications perform poorly often due to long distances between users and applications, small and latency prone network pipes, and applications and protocols stretched beyond their design limits mean poor application performance at remote sites.
Communications costs remain a significant part of the IT budget so realistically can’t be increased and therefore companies turn to acceleration technology.
Acceleration technologies range from load balancing, SSL solutions, compression to caching, bandwidth management and protocol optimisation. All of these techniques have benefits, but fundamentally a solution should do three things:
- Reduce user wait time (latency)
- Reduce the amount of bandwidth used by a user-application interaction
- Prioritise user-application interactions according to business priorities
3net designs bespoke application acceleration solutions to address the following frustrations are often cited by senior IT managers;
- Customers who experience poor site performance and slowdown
- Adverse customer satisfaction through poor response time or application integrity
- Uncertainty rolling out new business applications
- Site security breeches affecting service
- A high volume of service desk calls relating to performance
- A high volume of service desk calls relating to performance
- Restricted user access to applications
- Applications which can’t scale in performance
- High costs associated with supporting complex application architecture
- The need to increase availability of applications
- The need to increase availability of applications
- Applications which need to scale geographical boundaries to support BCP & DR requirements
3net provide advice on the leading content vendors such as Nortel, Bluecoat, F5 and others describing how the respective technology can address business needs.
