Akamai unveils Terra Alta to enable an increasingly mobile enterprise user base

Telecom Lead India: Akamai Technologies, a provider of
cloud platform for delivering secure, high-performing user experiences to any
device, anywhere, announced the launch of Terra Alta, an enterprise-class
solution designed to address the evolving complexities of application acceleration
in the cloud.

 

Terra Alta has been designed to enable an increasingly
mobile enterprise user base.  In addition, Terra Alta helps simplify the
process of developing and deploying applications in the cloud, making it easier
to optimize hundreds or thousands of applications with greater flexibility and
control.

 

The solution addresses the challenges faced by IT
managers to overcome issues with latency, availability, security and
application control that can adversely impact web application performance and
degrade the end user experience.

 

Terra Alta helps accelerate complex applications that
rely on multiple components, which may include business functions, modules, or
web services from within other applications.  Finally, Terra Alta can be
easily deployed within an enterprises’ existing network architecture, allowing
IT decision makers to avoid making changes to network equipment investments
already made.

 

Terra Alta leverages the distributed
Intelligent Platform to provide enterprises with an innovative set of
capabilities aimed at improving the user experience for Internet-delivered
applications regardless of where they are hosted.  The features introduced
in Terra Alta are designed to meet the requirements of enterprise and cloud
readiness, increased performance and simplicity of deployment and use.

 

In the area of enterprise and cloud readiness, Terra Alta
is intended to effectively map to the way enterprises are deploying and
delivering critical business applications. Terra Alta enhances the reach of the
Akamai Intelligent Platform by extending into the enterprise with Enterprise
Edge.

 

Enterprise Edge is a virtual machine that runs Akamai
optimization technology within a customer’s origin. It allows optimizations
from the Akamai Intelligent Platform to be carried from the Internet into the
data center, improving overall application performance across the entire
delivery environment.

 

Another feature of Terra Alta, Edge Load Balancing, is
designed to ensure that application traffic can be load balanced globally
across the web before traffic impacts an isolated single data center. Further,
Enterprise DNS Mapping enables organizations to overcome the performance
challenges caused by centralized DNS by dynamically adapting to user location
and removing dependencies on enterprise DNS infrastructure re-designs.

 

Terra Alta is designed to be easy to deploy and consume
in a manner best mapped to business requirements. New capabilities designed to
meet customer requirements for simplicity include:

 

Companies want to use the cloud as an enterprise
application delivery environment because it’s the most effective and efficient
way to reach the broadest set of users. Unfortunately, controlling the cloud
can seriously erode the promises and expectations of cloud computing,” said
Willie M. Tejada, senior vice president & general manager of the Enterprise
Cloud Division at Akamai.

 

With the release of Terra Alta, we’re giving our
customers powerful solutions specifically designed to provide the best possible
performance for their entire portfolio of cloud delivered business
applications,” Tejada added.

 

Terra Alta is available now with packages supporting sets
of three, five and 10 applications.

 

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