A diagram from Cotendo illustrating how its Cloudlet CDN module distributes business logic
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery network operator and site-acceleration service provider Cotendo (www.cotendo.com) announced on Monday that it has launched Cloutlet, which the company calls the first high-performance, CDN-integrated cloud application environment.
According to Cotendo, the patent-pending Cloudlet platform moves business logic to the cloud, and can reduce origin-server calls by up to 90 percent. It delivers content customized by device, user, location or other contextual cues for optimized handling of mobile applications.
The company says Cloudlet modules have been running in production environments with key customers, and have “achieved dramatic performance improvement” and reduced origin server load. Cotendo says the product is particularly well suited to publishers, social networks, online retailers and large enterprises, among other possible users.
In the past year, Cotendo has made customers of several major social media sites, including both Digg and Meebo.
A Cotendo Cloudlet information page on the company’s website describes the solution as an answer to the conflicting demands of content personalization and web application performance. Users demand personalized, dynamic website content, but the processing required to deliver that content can significantly degrade performance. It was this specific problem for which Cloudlet was designed.
Cotendo’s original take on the content delivery network is a bit of a diversion from the traditional approach of edge-caching static objects – it applies a “content control layer” to a given website or application, that enables the caching of any component, without modification to the site.
Cloudlet, which is a kind of modular enhancement of the original Cotendo Dynamic Site Acceleration service, and can similarly be added by customers without modification to application or website code.
“Instead of the customers having to re-architect their websites or applications to fit the CDN, we architected our CDN to easily adapt to the websites and applications of our customers,” says Udi Trugman, vice president of research and development at Cotendo, quoted in the press release. “Cloudlet modules radically simplify the efficient delivery and acceleration of personalized applications, without the usual required overhead of modifying the application for integration with acceleration services.”
The Cotendo website includes a lengthy PDF document offering a great deal of general CDN information (obviously skewed toward illustrating the benefits of Cotendo products), as well as a specific data sheet with information on Cotendo’s Cloudlet offering.
There does not appear to be any specific pricing information around the Cloudlet product, either on the company’s website, or on the data sheet.
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