Citrix And Crescendo Hit The Application Acceleration Gas Pedal At Interop

Wednesday, 03 May 2006 by Michel Roth

Two major players in the application acceleration market turned things up a notch when they announced upgrades to their products at Interop Las Vegas this week.

Citrix Systems announced its new Citrix NetScaler 12000 system, an upgrade to its applications acceleration product, which targets high-end Web applications handling millions of simultaneous users conducting hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. The company claims the product processes application transactions up to 400% faster than its competitors.

For its part, Crescendo announced multi-tier application acceleration technology for Web-based applications. Application Layer Processing (ALP), an addition to its Maestro family of products, is technology that accelerates application flows across logical application tiers. The product optimizes all application tiers in order to address end-to-end data center performance bottlenecks, regardless of location. The product incorporates Maestro's short life transaction (SLT) technology, which addresses front-tier issues.

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