Akamai Technologies, a provider of global service
provider for accelerating content and business processes online,
has unveiled an innovative solution for accelerating Web-based
enterprise applications.
The new Web Application Accelerator will be offered as a managed
service which will enable enterprises to extend dynamic,
highly-interactive, externally-facing Web applications, including
customer-facing portals, collaboration platforms, E-Learning
environments, and business-to-business commerce, to the Akamai
platform.
Akamai believes that web application performance has a strong
impact on overall business performance and that enterprise IT
professionals face ongoing challenges in delivering
centrally-located and managed web applications on a global scale.
It asserts that online applications, which represent critical
business processes, are often slow, unreliable and unpredictable,
affecting user adoption, satisfaction and productivity.
The result is that inefficient web applications can inhibit
revenue growth and prove costly to IT professionals tasked with
optimising application performance.
Akamai will accelerate customers’ dynamic web application
content using a number of techniques, such as: dynamic mapping of
user requests to an optimal Akamai edge server; route optimisation
technology to avoid Internet problem spots, sending application
transactions over Internet paths that are fast and reliable;
connection optimisation technology including compression,
long-lived inter-server connections, content pre-fetching, and
transport protocol optimisation; delivering applications over
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and through integration with leading
access control mechanisms; flexible caching technology that store
dynamic pages according to customised business rules set by the
customer.