The advantages of consolidating servers through virtualization technologies are well known. More efficient use of hardware, greater deployment flexibility, and better management are just some of the benefits. These benefits stem largely from the economies of scale derived from leveraging common hardware infrastructure within an enterprise's centralized data centers. Increasingly, these economies are being further leveraged by moving servers out of branch offices and into virtualized data centers.

This technical white paper describes the impact of the WAN on the performance of centralized virtual applications, as experienced by remote office users. It also introduces Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance (VA) for Application Acceleration software and describes its architecture, implementations, and deployment.