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Certeon (News - Alert), a provider of virtual appliance solutions for WAN optimization and application acceleration, has reportedly selected Intergence Systems, an international IT optimization consultancy, as its professional services partner.

 

This deal, Certeon officials said, was signed to complement and broaden the company’s offering to an expanding client base looking for integrated virtualized solutions.

 

Barry Viles, executive vice president Operations, Intergence Systems Ltd., said that partnering with Certeon has provided benefits to Intergence in two specific ways.

 

“The first is the significant performance improvements that aCelera software delivered to our managed IT infrastructure and remote offices,” he added. “Secondly, our partnership will increase the depth of our value proposition and capability to deliver real, immediate benefits to our customers in a virtualized environment.”

 

Certeon also revealed that Intergence also agreed to sign upon this agreement to optimize the performance of its applications across the WAN between its corporate and remote offices, by primarily considering Certeon’s aCelera Virtual Appliance software product.

 

Peter Dougherty, co-founder and president, Certeon Inc., said that aCelera software offers enterprises and service providers a high performance and cost-effective alternative to hardware appliances.

 

“Intergence’s selection of our aCelera virtual appliance validates the software approach to WAN optimization and simply makes more sense in a global business environment,” Dougherty added.

 

aCelera Virtual Appliance software is said to empower both enterprises and hosting providers with improved performance of application and file delivery over high latency WAN links as well as optimizing network bandwidth.

 

What’s more, aCelera is also said to deliver the performance, scalability and cost-efficiency required to enable distributed virtualized IT environments. When compared to proprietary hardware appliances, its aCelera software saves IT departments up to 60 percent in network optimization capital and operations costs, company officials said.

 

As a reputed independent networks and IT optimization consultant, headquartered in Cambridge, U.K., Intergence Systems has been serving customers in Europe, the Middle East and North America. The company specializes in helping organizations extract more value from their IT assets, including networks, data center/server environments and security.

 

Intergence uses a third-party hosting company as its corporate data center. By deploying aCelera WAN acceleration software to the data center; Intergence has already started experiencing near-LAN level performance to its remote offices while at the same time leveraging significant cost benefits from its hosted services.

 

And, Intergence’s testing of aCelera software optimizing Microsoft (News - Alert) File Sharing applications supported by CIFS, FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols resulted in a 93 percent improvement in remote file access. It was also mentioned that aCelera reduced the remote file access response time from 53 seconds to 4 seconds for a 10MB files over a 2 Mbps WAN link.