Strangeloop AppScaler for Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX Selected as Best of Tech.Ed 2007 Awards Finalist

June 2, 2007; 03:25 AM
Strangeloop AppScaler for Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX has been selected as a finalist for the Best of Tech.Ed 2007 Awards in the Web Development and Infrastructure category. The overall category winner will be determined at Tech.Ed 2007 in Orlando, FL. The winner will be announced on June 6 at an evening reception hosted by Windows IT Pro at the Peabody Hotel at 7:00 p.m.

The awards program is conducted by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & SharePoint Pro.com. The field included more than 260 entries and finalists were selected based on the product's strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and the value to the customer, following a technical evaluation.

The Strangeloop AppScaler is the industry’s first framework-specific appliance for accelerating dynamic Web applications without changes to software coding or hardware infrastructure. With the Strangeloop AppScaler, appliance enterprises can boost the performance and scalability of Microsoft ASP.NET/AJAX-based applications tenfold, reduce bandwidth costs by up to 80 percent, free developers from costly application tuning and deliver new features and applications faster and at lower cost.

"We are thrilled to be selected by Windows IT Media as a Best of Tech.Ed Award finalist," said Jonathan Bixby, president and chief executive officer of Strangeloop Networks. "We've received an overwhelming response since launching the AppScaler and this recognition further validates the industry's need for an appliance that takes a totally different approach to solving the problem of underperforming ASP.NET based Web applications."

The Strangeloop AppScaler frees enterprises from the application-tuning cycle and allows them to deliver new features and performance without sacrificing one for the other. It’s a plug-and-play appliance that is deployed “in line” between an enterprise’s Web servers and the load balancer; no changes are required to other infrastructure or the applications to be accelerated. Whereas traditional acceleration devices merely identify particular applications and route them accordingly, the Strangeloop AppScaler goes further, putting ASP.NET and AJAX traffic at line speed through a battery of framework-specific acceleration techniques. By optimizing data handling behaviors in real-time, for the application as well as the browser, the Strangeloop AppScaler addresses key performance factors, including payload, roundtrips and browser/server compute time and dramatically enhances load-balancer performance. The Strangeloop AppScaler simultaneously reduces the Web site’s response times and increases the number of transactions the application can accommodate without degradation.

Strangeloop will be showcasing the AppScaler appliance for the first time in booth # 909 at Microsoft Tech.Ed at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida, June 4-8, 2007.

About Strangeloop Networks

Strangeloop Networks accelerates dynamic Web applications with unique, framework-specific solutions that require no changes to software coding or hardware infrastructure and that free developers to focus on providing enterprises with value-added features. With the Strangeloop AppScaler for Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, enterprises dramatically shorten code cycles, improve application performance and throughput, more efficiently use bandwidth, achieve greater return on their investment in information technology (IT) staff and network resources and boost customer satisfaction. Strangeloop is based in Vancouver, B.C. For more information, visit www.strangeloopnetworks.com.