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It is essential for distributed organizations where information is mission-critical to deploy a content delivery solution. Key drivers for deploying such a managed content delivery solution include the need to better manage existing network infrastructure, improve the flow of data throughout the enterprise, reduce bandwidth congestion, offload processing from the origin servers, improve the user experience, and enhance user performance and productivity.
Traditionally, caching and edge implementation solutions were targeted at reducing bandwidth costs and offloading overburdened origin servers. Today, it has evolved as part of an entire managed content delivery solution that provides software platforms to better disseminate, manage, monitor and secure the flow of data in the network with a manageable and scalable approach.
The Fort Hill EdgeSystem
The Fort Hill EdgeManager and EdgeServer products offer customers a better way to quickly and selectively share information to remote locations in a reliable and cost effective manner. Fort Hill’s EdgeSystem allows IT administrators to ensure remote users have quick access to requested data at the network’s edge.
EdgeServer pre-positions requested data to the edges of the network, allowing remote users quick access to relevant information, thus reducing demand to the WAN and conserving bandwidth.
EdgeManager is a policy server that intelligently identifies and selects appropriate information for replication to the edge. An EdgeManager includes a Web-based administrator interface to search, select, distribute, monitor and manage content throughout the network, including remote locations.
Solutions that Benefit Application-Enabled Enterprises
Enterprises are constantly challenged to improve managed content delivery and satisfaction by ensuring that business-critical content published by widely dispersed authors is distributed to internal users as well as users residing on the edge of the network, many with low bandwidth connections and where budgetary constraints hinder spending of additional IT dollars to increase network data flow.
Placing EdgeServers in the remote offices and remote office storage environments, users can access data pre-positioned closer to the edge of a network, allowing data to be retrieved faster, utilize less network bandwidth and provide servers to be more responsive. The IT department in data centers can monitor and tune accessibility and content dissemination to ensure an optimum user experience, independent of network bandwidth.
Interoperability and Open Architecture
Employing an open architecture and interoperability with leading vendors, Fort Hill’s EdgeSystem, consisting of the EdgeManager and EdgeServer products, interoperates with leading content, storage management and portal framework solutions – including Documentum and Computer Associates - to create a best of breed manageable and scalable content delivery solution for enterprise-class deployments that deliver business-critical information - documents, Web pages, XML files, and rich media - to the edge of a corporate network.
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