SAN JOSE - Volera this week is announcing upgrades to its Velocity content delivery network package aimed at making it easier for businesses to manage, secure and deploy Web-based applications.
The market for enterprise-focused content delivery products is growing as businesses look to improve network performance and cut costs. Businesses consider building and managing their own CDNs or enterprise CDNs should think about security, management and ease of deployment, analysts say.
Volera, a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell, introduced its Velocity CDN package last year to help businesses deploy and manage CDNs. Velocity CDN consists of Volera's Excelerator caching software, its System Controller and Content Controller management software, and Content Accountant software, which lets businesses track CDN usage for billing and content delivery. The software can run on any Intel-based hardware platform.
"The trend is that a lot of [the Web acceleration companies], Volera included, are trying to integrate or at least come up with an offering that integrates several different features and that also allows for ease of use, ease of deployment and management," says Maximilian Flisi, an analyst at IDC. Volera competes with Inktomi, InfoLibria, CacheFlow, Cisco and Network Appliance in the CDN market
The upgrades to Velocity CDN, include the latest releases of Volera's software-based caching package, Excelerator 2.2 and Media Excelerator 1.2, and its management products, System Controller 1.2, Content Controller 1.2 and Content Accountant 1.2.
Specific features within the upgraded Velocity CDN include:
W. L. Gore & Associates of Newark, Del., best known for its Gore-Tex fabric, has beta-tested Velocity CDN. Richard Sun, network systems engineer at the company, says he's interested in the authentication and access control that can be integrated into the Novell Directory Services his network uses.
"We also like the fact that we can integrate filtering into this product so we can block questionable sites," he says.
The upgrades to Velocity CDN are scheduled to ship April 30. Pricing has not yet been finalized.
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