Crescendo Networks Named ``Best of Interop 2006'' Finalist; New Application Layer Acceleration (ALP) Technology Represents the First Solution to Accelerate Applications Across Multiple Tiers.TEL AVIV Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel & TENAFLY, N.J. -- Crescendo Networks Crescendo Networks is an Israeli company dealing in the Application Front End Acceleration market. The company develops a dedicated hardware based appliance which aims to improve web server tiers utilization by offloading them from different tasks e.g. , the undisputed leader in high performance Application Front End (AFE (Apple File Exchange) An earlier Macintosh utility that converted data files between Mac and PC formats. It also included a file translator between IBM's DCA format and MacWrite. ) products, today announced that it has been selected as a finalist in Network Computing's 20th annual Best of Interop competition. Crescendo's ALP (language) ALP - A list processing extension of Mercury Autocode. ["ALP, An Autocode List-Processing Language", D.C. Cooper et al, Computer J 5:28-31, 1962]. Technology was selected as a finalist in the "Application Networks and Performance" category. "ALP represents a unique approach to application acceleration because it is the first technology capable of accelerating application flows across all application tiers," said Yiftach Shoolman, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Crescendo Networks. "Web applications contain multiple processing tiers. As application requests move between tiers they often wait for processing attention. ALP eliminates this latency by intelligently monitoring, queuing and scheduling application requests end-to-end across all tiers," continued Shoolman. "We are pleased to have been selected as a Best of Interop 2006 Finalist," commented Adoram Ga'ash, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Crescendo Networks. "Our mission is to deliver best-of-breed high performance application acceleration solutions to our customers -- and this selection validates our execution on that mission," he observed. "We started accepting nominations for the Best of Interop awards in late February. In April the Technology Editors from Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. Magazine and three IT industry veterans reviewed the nominations and selected the finalists in each category," stated Ron Anderson Ron Anderson could mean any of the following people:
(2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. and networking to the next level," he concluded. About Network Computing Network Computing is the trusted information source which helps 220,000 Technology Leaders turn business strategy into reality. The editorial team consists of real-world IT veterans who provide objective information and analysis on technologies and solutions that are tested in IT media's only Real-World Labs -- a setting which mirrors our audience's work environment. About Crescendo Networks Crescendo Networks is the undisputed performance leader in the application acceleration market delivering unmatched multi-gigabit performance and application assurance in its award-winning Maestro application front end. Crescendo's technology accelerates end-to-end application performance and intelligently manages server-side sessions to protect and optimize server and application resources, dramatically improving end user response times. The company's robust and scalable hardware architecture makes it the only AFE that accelerates application content through simultaneous multi-gigabit connections allowing it to deliver connection management, SSL acceleration SSL acceleration is a method of offloading the processor-intensive public key encryption algorithms involved in SSL transactions to a hardware accelerator. Typically, this is a separate card that plugs into a PCI slot in a computer that contains one or more co-processors able to , data compression, DDoS protection and load balancing simultaneously without performance degradation. The most demanding web sites in the world employ the Maestro product line to accelerate their critical applications and to assure, optimize and protect their customers and their servers. Crescendo has received numerous industry awards, including Red Herring's "Top 100 Innovators," Network Magazine's "Most Innovative Start-Up" and "Best of Interop" at N+I Las Vegas May 2004. Independent tests conducted by Network Magazine in January of 2006 showed the Maestro Platform as the clear AFE performance leader against all major competitors. Crescendo is headquartered in Israel, with U.S. headquarters in New Jersey and Chinese headquarters in Beijing. For more information on the most advanced AFE solutions available today and tomorrow, visit www.crescendonetworks.com |
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