Crescendo Networks Optimizes Delivery of Web Content for Skyrock.com, France’s Leading Social Networking Site
With more than four million users per day, Skyrock.com relies on AppBeat™ DC to increase performance and accelerate delivery of its web-based content to users.
Menlo Park, CA, November 12, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Crescendo Networks, Ltd., the recognized performance leader in accelerating and optimizing Web applications, today announced that Skyrock.com is using AppBeat™ DC to ensure the performance, efficiency and availability of its Web applications for millions of users across France and throughout the world. Skyrock.com is the most popular social networking site in France and other European countries, and according to Nielsen France is the number one online member community in terms of unique visitors and page views.
“Social networking is about simple, easy and fast communication and online interaction. To meet user expectations for this, you need content and applications to load quickly. When we launched the site, we grew so fast that we had to stress our architecture in order to support the load and optimize the user experience,” said Jérôme Aguesse, Director of Web Production at Skyrock.com. “We had been using Zeus Technology devices, but to continuously purchase enough to support our needs meant a significant ongoing investment. Today, Skyrock.com has experienced a 50 percent increase in performance for the static portion of the site. This is directly attributed to our use of Crescendo’s technology and support from our systems integrator, Komposite.”
Komposite is an expert in storage and data back-up design and deployment. The company has more then 20 years of experience in optimizing corporate resources and services. The company played a large role in helping migrate and upgrade Skyrock.com to Crescendo’s AppBeat DC. For more information on Komposite, please visit www.komposite.fr.
AppBeat DC provides high availability, scalability, acceleration and optimization for Web applications. Unlike competing solutions, AppBeat DC leverages the industry’s only purpose-built platform, uniquely designed for maximum performance and feature concurrency. By offloading servers from process-intensive tasks and optimizing the delivery of the application to users, AppBeat DC significantly improves overall application performance, security and availability while reducing datacenter costs.
“We offer users a lot of tools, features and content. Not only does AppBeat DC exceed our acceleration needs for what the site is today, but it also provides us the scalability to meet future growth as we develop new applications for users tomorrow,” added Jérôme Aguesse. “AppBeat DC has been deployed for months now and we have had no downtime or performance issues. It has proven to be the solution we need and easily addresses the peak loads and flash crowd events that our site frequently experiences.”
“Website performance is very important for a social networking site. If you can’t deliver the content and connect users at lightening speeds, users will find another method to socialize,” said Adoram Ga’ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks. “Skyrock.com is an excellent example of a company that recognizes how important application acceleration is, and when they experienced slow load times and decreased performance, they immediately looked to resolve their issues. We’re very excited that AppBeat DC allows Skyrock.com to give customers the quality online experience they expect.”
About Crescendo Networks
Crescendo Networks is the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing the delivery of business-critical, Web-enabled applications. The company’s unique multi-tier application delivery architecture dramatically improves the operation of today's demanding application infrastructure. The world’s largest corporations and fastest growing Web properties rely on Crescendo for the application performance and efficiency needed to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue. To learn more about Crescendo Networks’ application delivery solutions, visit www.crescendonetworks.com.
Crescendo Networks, the Crescendo Networks Logo and AppBeat are trademarks or registered trademarks of Crescendo Networks in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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“Social networking is about simple, easy and fast communication and online interaction. To meet user expectations for this, you need content and applications to load quickly. When we launched the site, we grew so fast that we had to stress our architecture in order to support the load and optimize the user experience,” said Jérôme Aguesse, Director of Web Production at Skyrock.com. “We had been using Zeus Technology devices, but to continuously purchase enough to support our needs meant a significant ongoing investment. Today, Skyrock.com has experienced a 50 percent increase in performance for the static portion of the site. This is directly attributed to our use of Crescendo’s technology and support from our systems integrator, Komposite.”
Komposite is an expert in storage and data back-up design and deployment. The company has more then 20 years of experience in optimizing corporate resources and services. The company played a large role in helping migrate and upgrade Skyrock.com to Crescendo’s AppBeat DC. For more information on Komposite, please visit www.komposite.fr.
AppBeat DC provides high availability, scalability, acceleration and optimization for Web applications. Unlike competing solutions, AppBeat DC leverages the industry’s only purpose-built platform, uniquely designed for maximum performance and feature concurrency. By offloading servers from process-intensive tasks and optimizing the delivery of the application to users, AppBeat DC significantly improves overall application performance, security and availability while reducing datacenter costs.
“We offer users a lot of tools, features and content. Not only does AppBeat DC exceed our acceleration needs for what the site is today, but it also provides us the scalability to meet future growth as we develop new applications for users tomorrow,” added Jérôme Aguesse. “AppBeat DC has been deployed for months now and we have had no downtime or performance issues. It has proven to be the solution we need and easily addresses the peak loads and flash crowd events that our site frequently experiences.”
“Website performance is very important for a social networking site. If you can’t deliver the content and connect users at lightening speeds, users will find another method to socialize,” said Adoram Ga’ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks. “Skyrock.com is an excellent example of a company that recognizes how important application acceleration is, and when they experienced slow load times and decreased performance, they immediately looked to resolve their issues. We’re very excited that AppBeat DC allows Skyrock.com to give customers the quality online experience they expect.”
About Crescendo Networks
Crescendo Networks is the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing the delivery of business-critical, Web-enabled applications. The company’s unique multi-tier application delivery architecture dramatically improves the operation of today's demanding application infrastructure. The world’s largest corporations and fastest growing Web properties rely on Crescendo for the application performance and efficiency needed to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue. To learn more about Crescendo Networks’ application delivery solutions, visit www.crescendonetworks.com.
Crescendo Networks, the Crescendo Networks Logo and AppBeat are trademarks or registered trademarks of Crescendo Networks in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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