Thursday 29 July 2010
The RAPIDnet service provides up to a 40X performance improvement for Internet applications and delivers the reliability, security and global consistency necessary to make users productive anywhere in the world. As a result, corporate, SaaS and government customers can now deploy interactive, cloud applications and data services delivered over the Internet without the need to utilize expensive private dedicated networks or build out multiple data centers to support users worldwide.
Asankya’s RAPIDnet improves the performance for our customers on average of 15X for upload and download speeds for moving and accessing files from all over the world, which translates into higher subscription conversion and retention rates,” said Jan Nilsson of Diino, one of the Top Ten online storage systems in the world and a leading provider of backup, secure online storage and file sharing technologies to 1.4 million worldwide users. “Just as important, Asankya’s RAPIDnet removed the need to build out costly data center footprint in Mexico and the U.S. to service our rapidly growing customer base, giving us a very strong ROI.
Asankya’s RAPIDnet is offered as an Internet application delivery network service. RAPIDnet is the only application delivery service that optimizes bi-directional traffic (up and down), accelerates encrypted traffic (IPSec and SSL) and maintains complete application independence (TCP- and UDP-based). The RAPID protocol, the cornerstone of Asankya’s RAPIDnet, is a breakthrough parallel networking technology that works on top of the Internet Protocol (IP) and is fully standard compliant. sankya is the cloud acceleration company for the high speed delivery of Internet-based applications. The company’s RAPIDnet Cloud Acceleration Network is utilized by leading SaaS companies, cloud storage providers, internal enterprise cloud users and key government entities. Asankya is venture-backed by Veritas Venture Partners, In-Q-Tel, Seraph Group, Georgia Research Alliance and Ridgewood Advisors. Asankya is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
The hiring is part of Microsoft’s plan to construct a cloud computing network complete with efficient data centers. Microsoft has acquired another all-star executive from one of its rivals. This time it’s former Yahoo vice president of operations Kevin Timmons, who will now take control of Microsoft’s Data Service organization within the company’s wider Global Foundation Services (GFS) division. Given that efficiency usually means wider profit margins, it’s understandable that Microsoft would want to lower its own PUE by hiring Timmons, who Microsoft general manager of infrastructure services Arne Josefsberg credited for placing great importance on the metric. Some say that the PUE could represent the next great battle front between Microsoft and search engine powerhouse Google.
Microsoft is in the middle of constructing data centers across the globe. It’s trying to increase its online service delivery capability, and increasing the efficiency of its data centers in San Antonio, Chicago, and even Dublin is considered critical towards this end. The PUE metric is used to measure energy efficiency it divides the total power used by a data center by the power consumed by its IT infrastructure. The lower the number, the better.
