GMI Selects Netli's Application Acceleration Services; Infrastructure Build-out Achieved in Five Weeks for Increased Traffic Performance in Asia and Europe.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Netli(R), the global leader in Application Delivery Network (ADN ADN Anchorage Daily News (Alaska newspaper) ADN Yemen (international vehicle registration) ADN Ácido Desoxirribonucleico ADN Acide Désoxyribonucléique (French: DNA) ) services, today announced that Seattle-based GMI GMI Governance Metrics International (New York, New York) GMI Giant Magneto-Impedance GMI Global MSF Interoperability GMI General Motors Institute GMI General Mills, Inc. (Global Market Insite, Inc.), the only company that offers a complete integrated solution for global Internet-based market research, has implemented Netli's application acceleration managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality to improve business response times for users in Asia and Europe. With Netli's help, GMI has seen significant peaks in traffic performance in a short amount of time, enabling the company not only to increase online survey volume and speed of distribution, but also respond to new global business opportunities in a more timely fashion. "Our challenge was accelerating performance of our traffic between Seattle, Asia and Europe in a cost-effective manner," said John Jensen John Jensen (born 3 May 1965), nicknamed Faxe, is a former Danish international footballer who is assistant manager at La Liga club Getafe CF. He is known for his temper and is often outspoken in interviews. , vice president of technology for GMI. "We first worked with Netli's engineers over the phone to set up test domains, and within a few days, we saw significant application performance improvements. We then moved quickly into production and completed our implementation within five weeks." "Beyond Netli's ability to guarantee performance gains for business application end-users, independent of location and network carriers, a significant advantage of Netli's technology is its transparency (1) The quality of being able to see through a material. The terms transparency and translucency are often used synonymously; however, transparent would technically mean "seeing through clear glass," while translucent would mean "seeing through frosted glass." See alpha blending. ," said Willie M. Tejada, vice president of Marketing and Business Development for Netli. "That's the reason why companies like GMI are turning to Netli to meet the demand for increased revenue through greater performance of business-critical Web applications -- without capital expense and without making any changes to applications, servers, or software clients." Netli's patented technology and services include NetLightning, NetliOffload(TM), NetliContinuity(TM), and NetliView(TM). NetLightning, the company's flagship offering, delivers a business-quality Internet with global sub-second response times, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and secure access to Web applications. NetliOffload is a static file and content offload To remove work from one computer and do it on another. See cooperative processing. service offered for free to customers of NetLightning. NetliContinuity transparently enables failover Invoking a secondary system to take over when the primary system fails. Up-to-date copies of all required data and applications are maintained on the secondary system in order to respond immediately if the primary system becomes unusable. Also called "fallover." See replication. , backup or regulatory compliance for organizations with two or more data centers without having to install software or hardware devices. NetliView is a comprehensive measurement and reporting service, which enables organizations to continuously monitor the health of their business-critical, Netli-optimized applications. About GMI GMI is the only company that provides integrated Internet applications for global market research, including Net-MR software, 24/7 service bureau capabilities and double opt-in managed panels, to provide a single vendor solution for global sample. One of the world's largest panels, GMI contains 200 country panels, more countries than any other supplier. Rounding out the solutions, GMI also offers the GMIPoll (www.gmipoll.com), the only survey that surveys global opinions in real time, online, and with statistically accurate results. Founded in 1999, GMI has operations on five continents. More information is available at www.gmi-mr.com. About Netli Netli delivers a better Internet for business through its comprehensive suite of Application Delivery Network (ADN) services -- transparently enabling global eBusiness from local infrastructure. The world's leading and most successful companies use Netli's services to extend their market reach and reduce support costs while consolidating data center infrastructure. Netli is headquartered in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. and was recently named an innovative technology leader by IDG's Computerworld Magazine. For more information, visit www.netli.com or call 866-26-NETLI. |
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