Akamai Technologies has enhanced its managed
services offering for accelerating web-based enterprise
applications.
New features of the Akamai Web Application Accelerator
system include a new service level agreement assuring network
availability, enhanced pre-fetching capabilities, strategic global
deployments, as well as the addition of real-time application
performance reporting.
Existing customers will automatically receive all these benefits
without any software or hardware upgrades, or at any additional
cost.
Akamai has also announced the availability of pre-defined
integrations for the acceleration of SAP, Oracle and IBM Websphere
Portal applications. These pre-built integrations provide
business-to-business customers with a faster return on investment,
said Akamai.
“As businesses realise the benefits of using web-enabled
applications to help support global organisations, partners and
customers, the need to find platforms and solutions that can
support these applications outside of the firewall is critical,”
said Neil Macehiter, an analyst at Macehiter Ward-Dutton.
“Businesses need not only to think about security, but also
speed of delivery, reliability and ease of access. Properly planned
and delivered, these kinds of web-enabled applications can be a
major success factor in today’s commercial environment,” said
Macehiter.
Akamai accelerates customers’ Web applications using a number of
techniques, including dynamic mapping, route optimisation and
connection optimisation technology.
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