It seems like every where you go these days virtualization is transforming one part of the enterprise or another.

The latest part of the enterprise set to undergo virtualization is the remote office following the launch of an offering called aCelera from a company named Certeon.

The basic idea is that rather than purchasing an application accelerator to enhance the performance of an application that was recently centralized, IT departments can deploy a software-only that enhances the remote access performance of applications running on virtual machines in the data center.

A lot of IT organizations run into application performance problems after they consolidate their servers. This is because more users are now trying to access applications over a wide area network. Hand in hand with that centralization effort, a lot of IT organizations are also moving more applications to virtual machines running on the server.

What Certeon has done is come up with a way to accelerate the performance of applications running on top of virtual machines without requiring customers to deploy dedicated appliances. As a software-only solution, this means an IT organization can basically deploy aCelera on an existing spare server. Furthermore, there is no need to have a separate management console because the Certeon software can be managed within the same console that manages the virtual machines.

What's nice about this is that it has the potential to solve an application performance issue in a way that is transparent to the people that use the application. That means that IT managers don't have to spend a lot of time justifying the merits of virtualization to the people that own the application environment.

We all know that the people who fund specific applications in the enterprise get hyper sensitive when anybody in the data center does anything that might be perceived as compromising the performance of their applications. So perhaps the best thing about the Certeon software is that it can be deployed in a way that nobody even has to know its there. All they know is that there are virtual machines running somewhere in the data center and, as far as they are concerned, it doesn't affect them.