Johannesburg, 25 Nov 2015
The majority of business-critical applications were developed to be delivered in company networks or data centres where the cost of LAN bandwidth is low and the latency experienced by users is less than 1ms. "The advent and surge of cloud has changed the equation, as businesses are drawn to the myriad benefits gained when consuming their business-critical applications from global cloud infrastructures," says EOH Cloud Services' Stuart Hardy.
He explains that these days, many of the applications businesses use are delivered from data centres in the US or Europe, which impacts on user experience due to high latency and expensive bandwidth. "It is as a result of this that EOH Cloud Services has unveiled OaaS (Optimisation-as-a-Service) services to provide global application delivery to organisations that battle to address high latency and expensive networks."
Hardy cites several performance improvements when using EOH OaaS: "For example, optimisation provides bandwidth reductions of up to 90% and application and CRM access as much as 50X faster in terms of user experience for Sharepoint. Similar benefits are available for Salesforce.com, AWS, Azure and 365."
The OaaS service has been designed in order to enable clients to get fast, flexible and reasonably priced access to their business-critical applications with an experience comparable to using the application over a LAN or accessed from their own data centre. "Unlike other optimisation technologies available, EOH OaaS has been developed in the EOH core global network, removing the need for deployment or technical skills on the client's side, lowering costs and reducing time, and allowing the customer to focus on their core business," Hardy adds.
"The optimisation capability has been embedded into the core of the network, taking away any need for clients to be involved in the technical deployment of the solution, or in some cases the deployment of client-side infrastructure. This offering is unique in the local market. The
benefits it provides in both deployment time, application performance and bandwidth savings means that with EOH OaaS it's never been easier to focus on developing a business strategy that takes advantage of Web-based cloud applications."
The broader EOH OaaS product set focuses on application optimisation and delivery from the EOH Cloud and in a company's WAN, while OaaS Global Applications focuses exclusively on the delivery of global Web-based applications through a dedicated and optimised telecommunications network. "As a fully managed service, customers can use the product with minimal impact on their networks and their responsibilities, while enjoying the plethora of benefits that the technology provides. Moreover, customers can get application Optimisation from us without changing their current Internet access link or MPLS network provider," Hardy concludes.
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