With public and private clouds in mind, venture-funded Certeon is now using Linux development tools running on Ubuntu and CentOS to build "virtual accelerator" software for speeding application response time on congested Windows- and Linux-based networks.
"If you’ve ever tried to download a document such as a PowerPoint presentation on a slow Internet connection--and you’ve sat there three or four minutes waiting for it--then you’ve been dealing with network congestion," illustrated Gareth Taube, Certeon’s VP of marketing.
Certeon, however, targets its application acceleration products not at individuals but at Fortune 1000 corporations and other large organizations, most of them with somewhere between 10 and 100 branch locations.
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