Certeon is the leader in virtualized WAN optimization. Certeon’s aCelera software is the first WAN optimization and application acceleration virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, scalability, and manageability. The aCelera family of softwarebased solutions includes aCelera virtual appliance and aCelera Client for optimized desktop to data center performance and aCelera Sync for efficient business continuity over the WAN. Enterprises and managed service providers can save as much as 60 percent in total cost of ownership when deploying aCelera software to virtualized data centers, cloud environments, or remote offices.
Product Overview
aCelera Virtual Appliance
aCelera Virtual Appliance is the first and only virtual appliance for application acceleration. aCelera software is based on Certeon’s next generation Application Intelligent Networking technology and delivers application acceleration within virtualized and non-virtualized infrastructures without proprietary hardware appliances.
Acceleration in a Virtual Appliance: More Applications to More Users for Less Cost
Today’s enterprises are implementing consolidation initiatives to reduce the amount of hardware which is consuming ever-increasing amounts of space, energy and IT dollars. Even in small to medium sized companies, IT managers have multiple systems and proprietary appliances, including application acceleration appliances, collocated in data centers and branch offices, requiring separate and costly maintenance and management. This proprietary, single-purpose hardware approach to supporting applications is inefficient, hard to manage, and expensive. aCelera saves IT organizations more than 60% in WAN optimization TCO over 3 years when compared to proprietary hardware appliances. To support the flexibility of the modern virtualized enterprise, or cloud computing environments, and still gain the remote access performance benefits of application acceleration, IT managers must consider a solution that leverages a virtualized infrastructure as well as integrates application acceleration. Now with aCelera, application acceleration can be delivered in software and deployed as a virtual appliance. aCelera provides a more scalable, flexible, cost-effective, and manageable solution for IT managers and their remote users than traditional proprietary application acceleration or WAN optimization approaches.
aCelera Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration
Certeon’s aCelera is the first and only application acceleration VA to run natively within a VM operating system and provide true application acceleration across the wide area network (WAN). aCelera software delivers the same reduction in application response time as its proprietary hardware appliance counterparts do, with the added benefit of eliminating the hardware footprint and high cost of separately managed, single-purpose boxes. Supported on industry-standard server hardware and virtual machine operating systems such as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX or ESXi, aCelera delivers a more than 95% reduction in application response time to remote branch office users.
aCelera Virtual Appliance Benefits
Provisioning aCelera as a VA inside a virtual operating system allows other virtualized applications to benefit from aCelera’s performance enhancements. aCelera also enables IT managers to, on demand, allocate application performance and system resources where they are needed most. aCelera appliances can be provisioned from a VM management system such as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager or VMware VirtualCenter – the same central systems that monitor and control all virtual operating systems and virtualized applications. Finally, the cost and performance benefits of aCeleraapplication acceleration enable IT managers to deployvirtualized applications to remote branch offices faster andmore easily, bringing greater productivity to all users.
aCelera in the Distributed Enterprise
aCelera is software that can be easily deployed by installingit onto any industry-standard server running a VM operatingsystem. aCelera can be deployed in a remote location byloading it onto a stand-alone server or treated as just onemore virtualized application in a larger distributed enterprise.If virtualization does not exist in your remote location,Certeon can deliver a prepackaged hardware and softwarephysical appliance to your remote location. This physicalappliance is an open server with Microsoft Hyper-V orVMware ESXi and the aCelera software. As an open server,the aCelera physical appliance can also support additionalapplications. In the data center, aCelera can be stored onthe disks in a SAN and automatically deployed on oneor multiple VM systems. aCelera images can be clonedand moved as needed and can take advantage of othermanagement features within a VM operating system, suchas high availability and security. The figure below showshow easy it is to deploy aCelera in a varietyof environments. 
aCelera Sync
aCelera Sync software enables more efficient datareplication and backup over the WAN.
aCelera Management System
aCelera Management System is Ideal for large scaledeployments, CMS provides the tools to configure,provision and manage Certeon aCelera™ appliances. It hasthe power to create configurations for groups of appliancesat a time while also allowing each appliance to maintain itsown appliance specific configurations. The CMS systemscales to manage hundreds or thousands of applianceswith minimum cost and disruption. aCelera ManagementSystem is free with all deployments
aCelera Client Software
aCelera Client software provides users with applicationacceleration over the WAN from their local laptops and desktops.
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In this podcast, Certeon CTO Donato Bucella presents Certeon Optimized Application Delivery Solutions – Simple, Fast, Flexible
