As organisations and employees become more distributed, the productivity of users in branch and remote offices becomes increasingly important to the success and growth of the business as a whole.

All users need fast, secure access to critical applications wherever they are working; at headquarters, in branch and remote offices, or when travelling. Conversely, for ease of management, enhanced security and compliance, the trend is to consolidate (or outsource) critical applications and servers to fewer, centralised locations. This simplifies server and application administration but often creates performance problems for distributed users as well as slow remote data backup and replication. In many cases, a centralised application is a poorly performing application.

The combination of long distances between users and applications, narrow-bandwidth/ latency-prone network pipes, applications and protocols stretched beyond their design limits, all conspire to produce poor application performance at remote sites. Applications that are bandwidth-hungry or response time-sensitive exacerbate the problem.

Nebulas Xcelerate provide the leading WAN Optimisation Solutions to accelerate application performance to these remote and travelling users. In addition, integrated security functionality ensures that remote users remain within corporate usage policies and are protected from external threats while accessing the Internet and externally-hosted applications.