Unitus Selects Certeon's aCelera in its Quest to Fight Global Poverty

Business Wire, June 30, 2008

aCelera Virtual Appliance Software Optimizes Productivity between Unitus Worldwide Data Centers

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Certeon, the industry's first and only vendor to offer a virtualized appliance for application acceleration, today announced that Unitus, a worldwide leader in innovative financial solutions to solve global poverty, has selected Certeon's aCelera to dramatically improve remote file accessibility among its global users. Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration delivers acceleration as a service through software inside a virtual infrastructure--an ideal solution for enterprises looking to optimize remote access performance over the wide area network (WAN).

Unitus needed to decrease the time it took to access files between its data centers in Seattle, WA and Bangalore, India. Unitus was exchanging files between servers and making those files available to users over the WAN using Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Server. Before choosing Certeon's aCelera software, it considered and tested desktop cache programs and server mirroring platforms. With aCelera, Unitus saw a greater than 88% reduction in file server response time. aCelera software running in a virtualized environment made it easy for Unitus to deploy acceleration to its global locations, without the need to deploy a proprietary appliance. With aCelera, Unitus was able to improve end user response times and create identical working environments across global offices and teams, improving overall productivity.

"We were looking to provide equal levels of application access and speed to users regardless of their location," said Holly R. Wielkoszewski, IT Coordinator, Unitus. "Certeon's support for both application acceleration over the WAN and VMware virtualization will enable us to provide the same level of service to our global users and expand our overseas locations."

aCelera Virtual Appliance software is the perfect union of virtualization and application acceleration technology and provides enterprises with the combination of performance, scalability, flexibility and easy management. It is only when you include acceleration in the virtual infrastructure that you can gain the full ROI from virtualization. Certeon is a VMware Select Technology Alliance Partner and its aCelera Virtual Appliance is the first and only application acceleration appliance to have achieved certification for VMware ESX and ESXi.

"aCelera enables global enterprises such as Unitus to deliver application acceleration to all of its distributed users without the need to add proprietary hardware appliances," states Peter Dougherty, president and CEO, Certeon. "aCelera allows businesses to take full advantage of the flexibility, scalability, and management benefits of virtualization while maximizing response time performance so remote teams can be more productive."

About Unitus

Unitus is a worldwide leader at scaling innovative solutions to global poverty. We accelerate access to life-changing financial services for those at the bottom of the economic pyramid--the 3 billion people who are living on less than $2 a day. Unitus partners with the world's most promising microfinance institutions and provides them with breakthrough business strategies, technology, and access to capital, empowering them to serve thousands more hardworking micro-entrepreneurs around the world. The Unitus portfolio reaches more than 3.5 million families through 22 partners in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, and the Philippines. Our goal is to reach more than 15 million of the world's working poor by 2010. Unitus is a 501(c)3 nonprofit with offices in Seattle, Washington and Bangalore, India. For more information, please visit www.unitus.com.

About Certeon

Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance software is the industry's first and only virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, virtualization and manageability when remotely accessing applications throughout a distributed enterprise. aCelera Virtual Appliances reduce application response time over the WAN by more than 95% without proprietary hardware appliances. aCelera is optimized for mission critical applications such as: enterprise content management, Web-based collaboration, and wide area file services. aCelera is flexible and easy to deploy delivering faster, more scalable applications, and enabling greater user productivity. Founded in 2003, Certeon is a private company, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.certeon.com or call 781-425-5200.

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