crescendo

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

How Rich Internet Applications Impact the Network and Application Delivery

Rich Internet Applications RIAs are taking the web into exciting new directions, changing the way applications are designed and deployed with more powerful user interfaces and richer client experiences. This paper provides a brief introduction to RIAs, what they are, how they're different from traditional web applications, and their impact...

Tags: Network, Rich Internet Application, Crescendo

White papers 2009-04-28

Evolution of Application Acceleration: Load Balancing to Application Delivery

Web applications are redefining the way many businesses operate. Behind the scenes, the architecture that supports these applications has evolved as well to meet the ever-growing demands for performance, throughput and availability. Today's web environment is much more complex, with rich media applications, more transactions and interactivity, and enormous traffic...

Tags: Load Balancing, Rich Media, Crescendo, Data Centers, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Networking

White papers 2009-04-28

Friendster Picks Crescendo Networks to Ensure Web Application Performance

Friendster, one of the top 10 websites globally and the #1 social network in Asia, continues to grow at a rapid pace with over 100,000 new registered users every day. In order to handle the growing user base without straining the application infrastructure, Friendster needed an application delivery solution that...

Tags: Web, Friendster Inc., Web Application, Crescendo, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

White papers 2009-04-27

Peirce College Accelerates and Secures Student Portal with Crescendo Networks

Peirce College wanted to offer online student course enrollment and registration using the Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution JICS. However the college had to meet two key requirements: scalable performance for its growing student population and security to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Peirce College deployed Crescendo...

Tags: Student, Crescendo, Portals, Web Technology, Performance Management, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-04-27

Pronto.com Accelerates Online Shopping Applications with Crescendo Networks

Pronto.com is the Web's fastest growing comparison shopping site, servicing more than 15 million users each month. With business growing rapidly, Pronto.com decided it was essential to upgrade load balancing capabilities, as peak traffic and other stresses were preventing the site from performing optimally. After testing both load balancers and...

Tags: Load Balancing, Site, Crescendo, Pronto.com, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2009-04-27

Rubies 1.9 (Mobile)

Rubies is a action puzzle game in which you must remove all the rubies from the playfield. But first you must destroy all the color bricks, all while avoiding the deadly skull blocks. This game is a mix of breakout and a puzzle game. This game is a clone...

Tags: Database, Mobile, Crescendo, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2003-11-08

Puff 2.0 (Mobile)

Allows users to quickly calculate predicted values for spirometry, flow-volume and body plethysmography using the patient''s age, height and gender. The prototype was designed for a clinical drug study that was being conducted in a local hospital.

Tags: Mobile, Crescendo, Healthcare, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2001-08-14

Additional Resources

Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation

I just spoke with Bob Ackerman, founder of Allegis Capital, and he is very concerned about innovation in Silicon Valley, primarily because of the cumulative impact of US government actions and regulations. Here are some notes from our conversation: -...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Venture-capital Company, Darwin, Venture Capital, Government, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Aéropostale Improves Web Application Performance with Crescendo Networks

Over the last few years, Aéropostale's corporate growth has been fast and steady. As employees, stores and applications were added, Web application response times steadily degraded. With latency increasing and end user satisfaction and productivity decreasing, Aéropostale turned to Crescendo Networks application delivery controller, AppBeat DC, to accelerate and...

Tags: Web, Web Application, Crescendo Networks, Aéropostale, Cloud Computing

Case studies 2009-04-28

Enterprise vendors: in pursuit of reality

Michael Hickins at BNet cracks open the customer/vendor relationship kimono, using Ray Wang's most recent post as the backdrop. As we enter the conference season, the timing could not be better: Indeed, most customers have a love-hate relationship with their vendors that is heavily weighted towards hate....

Tags: Beverage, Customer, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO PR, Carr, Food & Beverage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Managed Hosting, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Rapattoni Corporation's 250+ Websites Roar With Speed Using ZXTM's Content Compression and Application Acceleration

Rapattoni's success came with a need to ensure that all the sites remain highly available and responsive, so Rapattoni investigated their acceleration options. Rapattoni also experienced problems with scalability to accommodate growth. In addition to solutions from F5, they looked at solutions from Crescendo Networks and Zeus Technology. Zeus' ZXTM...

Tags: Zeus Technology, Web Site, Rapattoni, ZXTM Software

Case studies 2009-01-01

Toy Bot Diaries 3 1.0 (Mobile)

The third and last entry of the epic Toy Bot series offers a crescendo of challenges, levels and an exciting conclusion to this iPhone classic. Hot on the trail of his enemy, Toy Bot sets a course much closer to home: Planet Bot. In order to confront his nemesis once...

Tags: Mobile, Bot, Apple iTunes, IUGO Mobile Entertainment, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-16

Watchmaker 1.6 (Mobile)

Easy to use alarm clock for Palm with multiple alarms and timers - Customizable analog and digital clocks - Drift correction. Features : Six alarms, with 4 modes: Daily/weekly, one-time, count-up, count-down. Sound repeat and crescendo. Easy alarm setting by tapping a clockface or a number block. ...

Tags: Clock, Alarm, Mobile, Palm Inc., Palm OS, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-11-30

Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edge

Responding to a crescendo of criticism from the developer community, which saw books canceled, long time fans lose enthusiasm, and some calls for defections to Android, Apple finally relented Wednesday: We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement NDA for released iPhone software. ... The NDA has created too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Android, Tools & Techniques, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-10-02

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeInsidious BMThe widespread Microsoft use combined with the creeping IBM invasiveness appears to indicate a competition within the organization which IBM is currently winning. Probably a comeback.Murph has also mentioned that there are substantial external contracts providing services and capabilities in...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp., data-processing, diamond, meat, Murph, IBM mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

An (Imaginary?) Hannaford Conspiracy

The regularity with which geezers like me see history repeating itself suggests some combination of memory influencing perception with an amazing continuity in the forces driving human behavior. Worse, our perceptions of what happened then may be wrong but influence our interpretations of what's happening during the perceived re-run anyway,...

Tags: Point-of-sale, Debit Card, Computer, IBM Corp., Hannaford, Data Breach, Linux, Financial Services, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Seesmic, Twhirl, Newsgang: whereto for RSS?

Yesterday's announcement that Seesmic has acquired Twhirl is no surprise. Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic was muttering something about it when we met last month but asked me to keep quiet. What is far more interesting to me is the long term impact on desktop client applications like Twhirl to...

Tags: Twitter, Twhirl, Video App, Goodness, RSS, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Turtle Beach Ear Force AK-R8

Plenty of PC headphones and audio cards offer a "headphone surround-sound" mode, but it's often little more than a sophisticated reverb mode that uses psychoacoustics to trick the mind into thinking it's hearing something beyond a stereo (2-channel) source. That's why the Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA headphones were so...

Tags: Ear Force AK-R8, headphone, Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA, PC, AASRM, earcup, USB

Product reviews 2007-11-01

Google exec talks innovation: Can you find the Apps pitch?

Google Matthew Glotzbach, Product Management Director Google Enterprise, gave a keynote on innovation at the Interop 2007 and the talk was so dry I was forced to innovate. After 45 minutes of innovation cliches--fail wisely, move fast, etc.--I was hit by the following questions. ...

Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Information Technology, Glotzbach, Subtext, Consumer Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-24

IBM 'continuum' helps companies crawl-walk-run along the SOA path

IBM today unleashed a barrage of announcements that cover services and software to enable a crawl-walk-run strategy for enterprises as they move into the services-oriented architecture SOA world. The new offerings range from a "SOA Sandbox," which will allow developers to "play" with SOA before using it in a...

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-03