Akamai Offers Managed Internet Service For Delivery Of Virtualised Apps

Akamai Technologies has announced a managed Internet service for optimising delivery of virtualised applications and desktops. Leveraging core technology from the Akamai IP Application Accelerator solution, the new targeted offering is designed to help enterprises realise the cost efficiency, scalability and global reach inherent with the Internet to deliver applications over virtual desktop infrastructure products offered by companies such as Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.

Featuring customised integrations through professional services specific to virtual desktops, along with new, concurrent user-based pricing, Akamai’s latest offering is focused on making it easier for enterprises to realise the intended return on investment of their virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

"We see the desktop virtualisation market poised for growth and believe that our managed services model allows us to work with enterprises on large, global deployments of their virtual desktop infrastructure," said Willie M Tejada, vice president, Application and Site Acceleration, Akamai. "We have seen good traction beyond browser-based applications since launching IP Application Accelerator, and this customised offering will allow us to focus even more on virtualisation, meeting the needs of our enterprise clients through a user-based pricing model."

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