Streamcore a global provider of visibility and dynamic performance control solutions to manage interactive applications and real-time communications delivery over the WAN announced that its solution are aiding cloud service providers to better serve enterprise customers by optimally managing application and communication delivery.

With increased outsourcing of IT assets, Infrastructure-as-a-Service or IaaS and Software as a Service or SaaS (News - Alert) providers are required to offer optimized applications and Web services. But the management of shared WAN access enhances performance besides customizing services for individual enterprise customers.

Streamcore solutions enable IaaS and SaaS providers to offer new personalized visibility, monitoring and performance control services so that customers can access data centers located in the cloud.

The chief advantage is however the multi-tenancy capability that enables IaaS and SaaS providers to segregate traffic per enterprise customer and also provide virtualized visibility and control services with a single Streamcore appliance. Also subnet overlapping between customers is fully supported when service providers implement network virtualization based on VLANs. This preserves private IP addresses used by enterprise customers.

Company sources revealed that Streamcore appliances can distinguish each enterprise's virtual LAN and act as if a virtual appliance was deployed for each customer. The virtualization at the network layer enables much higher performance on a single appliance than with traditional server virtualization technologies, and overall traffic management. The company's management and provisioning features simplify configuration tasks and make change management easy irrespective of the number of customers that the IaaS or SaaS provider has to support.

In a release Frederic Hediard, vice president of product management at Streamcore said, "Many of our large enterprise customers have been leveraging Streamcore's multi-tenancy capabilities to deliver greater visibility and control to the various business units they serve within the enterprise."

"Now, the same capabilities are proving very useful to service providers as cloud computing gains momentum. Service providers can use Streamcore appliances to enhance the value and performance management of their cloud offerings," Hediard added.

Premium services can be provided by IaaS and SaaS providers with guaranteed service level agreements based on Streamcore's technology. When many enterprise customers, or several sites belonging to a single enterprise customer, are served via a shared WAN access link, Streamcore's advanced quality of service or QoS features will help service providers to guarantee a minimum bandwidth customers and remote sites despite bandwidth intensive applications traversing the WAN.

Streamcore's Application Behavior Based Analysis or ABBA engine ensures fair service among end-users and optimal response time for interactive traffic. Service providers can offer application or communication performance visibility services via Streamcore's real-time monitoring and reporting features.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                 

 

 

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