University of Maryland Medical System Selects Crescendo Networks to Optimize Online Applications

AppBeat DC Delivers Improved Application Availability, Speed and Efficiency for System Employees

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 13, 2011 – Crescendo Networks, the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing application delivery for web properties, announced today that the University of Maryland Medical System has selected its AppBeat DC application delivery controller to optimize web application access, speed and efficiency for more than 15,000 employees statewide.

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is dedicated to providing quality health care through a market-responsive regional system composed of a world-class academic medical center partnered with The University of Maryland School of Medicine and premier community and specialty hospitals.

AppBeat DC delivers optimal application performance while increasing server efficiency. Deployed on a purpose-built platform using dedicated hardware engines with parallel processors, AppBeat DC offloads processing-intensive tasks from servers and combines multiple acceleration features in one highly scalable appliance. Its unique distributed architecture outperforms other solutions that experience performance degradation and resource contention when multiple features are enabled.

“UMMS employees rely on quick access to sophisticated medical applications as part of their daily job, “said Adoram Gaash, CEO for Crescendo Networks. “By deploying AppBeat DC, staff will experience orders of magnitude faster performance and better availability while the infrastructure becomes more efficient, delivering a better value to UMMS overall.”

About Crescendo Networks
Crescendo Networks offers the industry's only "future-proof" application delivery solution to support business growth in today's volatile online world. Our unified application delivery solution offers innovative HyperScale technology, cloud intelligence, and massively scalable processing for performance that knows no boundaries. The company’s products are used by many of the world’s most sophisticated and fastest-growing Web properties to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue. For more information, visit www.crescendonetworks.com.

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Crescendo Networks
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