Leader in Network Performance Unveils New Hardware and Software Solutions that Cut Network Costs and Accelerate Application Performance for Email, Web based applications and File sharing
Dubai - Peribit Networks, the leader in application delivery over the wide area network, today announced availability of a breakthrough in network performance for Middle East corporations and organizations that will allow for superior performance over the network while reducing fixed infrastructure costs.
Designed to dramatically improve data flows across wide area networks, Peribit's Application Flow Acceleration (AppFlow) technology speeds performance of Microsoft Exchange, file services, and web-based applications over wide area networks (WANs). The AppFlow technology is a strategic enhancement to Peribit Networks' integrated PeriSphere architecture, which enables IT to consolidate and centralize servers while delivering LAN-like application performance to branch-office users.
"Peribit's pioneering offerings come at the right time for the region's business community; many companies have expanded at a rapid rate, and yet are facing performance problems with their critical applications. With the addition of a new Sequence Mirror device for branch offices and our ground-breaking AppFlow technology, they can continue to consolidate servers and optimise network links without any application performance issues," said John Rea, regional director, Peribit Networks.
Peribit Networks today also announced the SM-250, a new addition to the Sequence Mirror (SM) product family, and version 5.1 of the Sequence Reduction System (SRS) software. SRS software is the operating system at the heart of all Sequence Mirror and Sequence Reducer (SR) products and enables IT to provide LAN-quality application delivery across the WAN.
Leading institutions from the region's largest vertical sectors - including oil and gas organizations such as the National Drilling Company, financial bodies like the Al Jazira bank and government departments regionwide - have already benefited significantly from deploying Peribit hardware and software solutions throughout their networks.
With the additional functionality and ease of deployment of the SM-250 Sequence Mirror, even more companies are set to discover the potential return on investment that Peribit's solutions bring to the Middle East market.
AppFlow Enables Data Center Consolidation:
Many distributed enterprises today are consolidating their mission-critical servers to reduce costs, simplify maintenance and management, and more easily comply with state and federal regulations
According to Joe Skorupa, Principal Analyst at Gartner, "Accelerating Exchange, CIFS, and web application performance as part of a broad-based architecture for application acceleration removes a major obstacle to server centralization projects."
The Peribit AppFlow technology is an acceleration component of the PeriSphere architecture, which integrates compression and caching, acceleration, application control, and visibility technologies to improve the performance of applications over the WAN. AppFlow technology enables businesses to centralize their Exchange, Microsoft file and web application servers without sacrificing the performance that branch-office users have come to expect.
"It's all about centralization ," says Martin Cox, Technical Services Manager, Planning and Development at BOC Edwards, which is in the midst of phasing out aging Exchange servers in remote offices and centralizing services at its Wilmington, Mass. headquarters. "The Peribit solutions, which have already had a dramatic impact on e-mail performance over the WAN, will allow us to continue our consolidation effort and realize our corporate objective of centralizing services to reduce costs and simplify administration."
The AppFlow technology provides the acceleration needed for applications that cannot benefit from TCP acceleration until their own protocol limitations are removed. Microsoft Exchange and Common Internet File System (CIFS) file services applications were initially designed for local area network (LAN) environments, so their performance drops dramatically when used across a WAN link that has even modest latency. Similarly, web pages for in-house and packaged applications build very slowly across the WAN because they depend on sequential delivery of tens to hundreds of objects.
AppFlow Details:
The AppFlow technology accelerates the performance of applications based on three specific protocols: the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) used by Exchange; Microsoft CIFS; and HTTP. The implementation of all three AppFlow techniques is fully transparent to clients and does not interfere with normal client-to-server communications resulting in fail-safe operation.
Accelerating Exchange (MAPI):
The AppFlow technology greatly improves response times for remote Outlook/Exchange users by requesting portions of the message in advance of the client's request, pipelining what had been a serial and inefficient bulk transfer. As a result, the entire email and any attachments are local to the client by the time the client requests the message. Peribit Networks' ability to accelerate Exchange benefits even fairly low-latency links of 30 ms or more.
Accelerating Microsoft File Services (CIFS):
The CIFS protocol is the most common method for opening and transferring files. Like MAPI for Exchange, the CIFS protocol sends data serially and in small blocks. AppFlow technology accelerates CIFS applications by reading and writing those data blocks ahead of the user's request. Again, the acceleration improves performance on links with as little as 30 ms of latency.
Accelerating Web Applications:
Web pages typically include tens of separate objects, each of which are requested serially and one at a time. Consequently, building a web page takes at least as many round trips as there are objects on the page. To speed application performance across the WAN, Peribit devices learn the objects associated with a URL and pipeline them across the link so that they are available locally when the client browser requests them a second time.
SM-250 details:
The SM-250 extends the benefits of Peribit Networks' award-winning Network Sequence Mirroring (NSM) sequence caching technology to branch offices. The NSM technology records patterns across packets, sessions, and flows and stores them on hard disk so that, if repeated later, they can be identified and removed from data streams even when they are separated by hundred of gigabytes of data sent days or weeks apart, and even when the transmitted files have been modified. The other member of the SM product family, the SM-500, received the Editor's Choice Award from Network Computing in November 2004. Sequence Reduction System Software (SRS) Version 5.1 details
SRS software version 5.1 will enable the company's SM-500 sequence caching platform to function as a client of its top-of-the-line SR-100 platform. As a client of the SR-100, the award winning performance of the SM-500 hard-disk-based sequence caching is extended to OC-3 links. Combined with the SM-250, the SM product line can address the full range of enterprise infrastructure requirements from the data center to the branch office.
SRS version 5.1 also supports new executive reporting capabilities within the PeriScope Central Management System (CMS) software. Providing a consolidated view of WAN and application performance, the new executive reports offer easy-to-use graphs, pie charts and bar charts to provide visibility into key application compression and acceleration, path optimization, and bandwidth management data. This enables executive staff to quickly determine which applications are consuming WAN bandwidth, how the WAN is performing, and which applications are benefiting from acceleration and compression.
Pricing & AvailabilitySRS version 5.1 which includes AppFlow technology will be available in April. AppFlow technology may be enabled on the full range of Sequence Reducer (SR) and Sequence Mirror platforms.
The SM-250 is available in April at a starting price of $4,995. The SM-250 can be licensed for links ranging from 128 Kbps to 2 Mbps.
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About Peribit Networks
Peribit Networks improves business efficiencies by resolving the technical limitations of WANs. The company's integrated PeriSphere architecture accelerates application performance, simplifies application rollouts, facilitates data center consolidation, and improves disaster recovery, backup, and regulatory compliance. Peribit Sequence Reducer and Sequence Mirror platforms, combined with the Sequence Reduction System and PeriScope Central Management System software, accelerate applications, increase WAN capacity, enable application control, and provide unprecedented visibility into WAN performance. The result: greater employee productivity, more efficient use of WAN resources, and rapid return on IT investments. For more information, visit the company's website at HYPERLINK "http://www.peribit.com" www.peribit.com
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