Carlsberg drafts in network accelerator

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Danish beer company Carlsberg has managed to increase the performance of its network by 60 per cent by using an application accelerator.

The brewing giant selected the DX data centre application acceleration platform from Juniper Networks to improve the performance of its web-based Hyperion application.

It has also deployed the networking company's Secure Access (SA) SSL VPN platform to secure global remote access to the application.

Carlsberg uses Hyperion for detailed reporting and analysis from its subsidiaries around the world and across its group functions. Hyperion is centrally hosted in the company's data centre in Copenhagen, and the application's performance was slow for some subsidiary users, impeding their efficiency and productivity.

Many users also access Hyperion remotely when they are travelling or working from home, so Carlsberg needed to provide easy-to-use secure links to the sensitive data within the application.

The DX platform has been deployed at the Copenhagen data centre to load-balance incoming requests and to offload the repetitive, CPU-intensive tasks performed by servers, which said the company now enables these servers to perform more efficiently.

By compressing web content, the DX platform reduced the amount of traffic flowing across the link, accelerating business performance management applications. Carlsberg is now assessing how other enterprise applications will perform with the DX platform in order to further improve performance across the enterprise.

"A proof of concept trial with the DX platforms quickly showed that we could significantly improve access and download times for Hyperion," said Niels Fabricius, group consolidation manager at Carlsberg. "Widespread deployment has brought us a 60 per cent improvement by optimising traffic flows, so it was highly beneficial and cost effective for Carlsberg to implement the solution."

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