Akamai Technologies is joining forces with Riverbed Technology to optimize application performance for enterprises using public clouds. The companies said Tuesday that they will develop a joint application solution for hybrid cloud networks, combining Internet optimization with wide area network (WAN) optimization.
Akamai will employ its global network of more than 90,000 servers, which provide route, protocol and application-layer optimization and carry about 30 percent of all Internet traffic. Akamai optimization software will be integrated with Steelhead appliances from Riverbed.
A SuperWAN
The companies said enterprises are increasingly using both in-house and public cloud-based applications. This means business apps, which had been used primarily within a corporate network, are now often being accessed through the public — and unpredictable — Internet. This raises issues involving not only performance, but availability, scalability and security.
Eric Wolford, executive vice president of Riverbed’s marketing and business development, said accelerating software performance “across a hybrid cloud environment helps businesses increase application adoption.” He added that greater adoption “means improved business results, operating and infrastructure savings, and user productivity.”
Akamai Vice President Willie Tejada said the alliance with Riverbed is “focused on marrying best-in-class protocol optimizations for maximum acceleration and infrastructure off-load.” Riverbed CEO Jerry Kennelly has told news media that the companies’ combined offering will be able to increase performance as much as 20 times for cloud-based apps.
Although the companies didn’t detail exactly what will be the result of this combined optimization, they said the offering is expected to become available early next year. The companies have been describing the anticipated result as a kind of superWAN, with acceleration of applications between a data center and the public cloud.
Hybrid Clouds
In a white paper distributed by the companies, entitled Can Cloud and High Performance Co-Exist?, they point out a key question regarding the use of cloud services: “Will…
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