Peribit Technology Pumps Up App Performance Over The Wan

"We focus on improving application performance over the WAN to make performance for [users at] branch offices closer to that of a user at headquarters sitting next to the data center," said Mike Banic, vice president of corporate marketing at Peribit, Santa Clara, Calif.

Through a new version of its Sequence Reduction System (SRS) Version 5.1 operating system, the company is adding performance acceleration capabilities to its appliances based on three protocols: MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface), used by Exchange; CIFS (Common Internet File System), a Microsoft file

services protocol; and the HTTP Web protocol. Peribit refers to the new application acceleration technology as Application Flow Accelerator, or AppFlow. AppFlow enables those protocols to benefit from Peribit's TCP acceleration, which speeds application performance and reduces bandwidth consumption, Banic said.

The vendor's new application-specific performance enhancement will improve customers' WAN performance as a whole, enabling them to get more out of their WAN links, said Jerry Basset, vice president and partner at Structured Communication Systems, a solution provider in Portland, Ore. Reducing bandwidth consumption of applications such as Exchange also enables IT departments to allocate a greater percentage of the WAN pipe to other applications, he said.

Structured Communication's customers using Peribit's technology commonly see performance improvements of 30 percent to 50 percent or more, depending on the application, Basset said.

Peribit's new capabilities will also ease server consolidation, which can often result in service degradation for remote users, said Dennis Bailey, vice president and principal engineer at Invictus, a solution provider based in New York.

Customers also are increasingly implementing server consolidation strategies to keep up with regulatory requirements for data storage and backup, Bailey said. "Consolidation is happening because of regulations and also as part of business continuity planning and disaster recovery," he said. "You have more control over data itself [through consolidation]."

Peribit is also expanding its portfolio through a branch office version of its Sequence Mirror product dubbed the SM-250.

SRS Version 5.1 is scheduled for availability this month across Peribit's full range of Sequence Reducer and Sequence Mirror appliances. The SM-250 will also be available this month starting at $4,995.