SaaS / Public cloud computing

The Internet is used more and more by the enterprise to carry business critical traffic. For instance:

• Business applications, such as Salesforce or Gotomeeting are now available as a service through the Internet through the SaaS model. However, employees require the same quality of service whether the application is hosted over the Internet or within the enterprise Data Center.
• Components of SOA business applications start to use Internet-based Web services provided by business partners (e.g., stock information, resources availability) or technology partners (GoogleMaps for instance to display information on a geographical map). A full SOA transaction will be completed once data from the Internet-based Web services has been received and therefore the transaction performance over the Internet must be optimized.

All these types of traffic (SaaS, Web services...) require a high priority on a shared corporate Internet access. In order to fully manage their performance, Streamcore Internet Solutions automatically allocate bandwidth and give full visibility into how the Internet is being used:

• Give a high priority over the WAN to business Web applications by using advanced L7 HTTP traffic classification (hostname or URL classification)
• Discover and protect all form of SaaS applications over HTTPS (Salesforce, Gotomeeting, GoogleApps, Webex...)
• Prioritize any kind of traffic that matters the most for your business.
• Understand how WAN bandwidth is used and upgrade it only if business traffic needs it
• Limit automatically bandwidth allocated to recreational traffic when the access link is used by business related traffic.