Nitrosphere modernizes Canon CMS systems
with performance improvement & bandwidth reduction over distance

Industry
Optical Products
Medical Equipment
Manufacturing

Use Case
Application Acceleration
Bandwidth Reduction

Stack
SQL Server
Client-server Applications

Since the mid-1900s, Canon, one of the world’s most recognizable brands, has delivered leading-edge digital imaging solutions to consumers, small business, large corporations and government entities worldwide. Today, the markets the company serves – from broadcast and communications to medical, optical and industrial products – are as diverse as its customer base.

It comes as no surprise, then, that Canon’s content managers require optimal data accessibility and ease of use to administer the company’s more than 66 websites, a state-of-the-art network, scores of databases, and terabytes of data driven by an intensive image-centric environment. Because they are responsible for a variety of tasks, such as providing an exceptional web experience to customers, running campaigns and accessing image-intensive content, they need applications that deliver a superior user experience to support a media-rich business.

Challenge
SQL Server Application Performance

Canon Europe’s application performance experts identified the need to offer company content managers with a high degree of timely data delivery. As part of an effort to tune application performance, Canon Europe’s team analyzed applications and explored compression technologies. They searched for ways to tune large SQL Server clusters and found that they had issues with large data transfers. The goal was to improve data transfer efficiency in order to improve application speed time and performance for users.

Solution
NitroAccelerator Deployment

Canon Europe discovered NitroAccelerator, a network acceleration solution that improves cloud application performance. Other solutions that Canon considered had a more cumbersome implementation and installation time and did not provide the specific performance and security benefits that the company was seeking. Canon found NitroAccelerator to be the smartest solution because it is adaptive and compresses only data that can be compressed.

Result
LAN Levels of Performance Over the WAN

As an imaging company, Canon operates in a rich media environment and often has to transfer huge amounts of data (three to four terabytes on average). Even with a high performance network, it is important to do this as efficiently as possible. By tuning SQL Server in conjunction with NitroAccelerator, Canon Europe is getting 20 percent more throughput – significant performance increase – especially considering image data is normally considered incompressible. NitroAccelerator has substantially reduced the application response times for the company’s users both in office and working remotely.

“We have an environment where every second counts. This is a no brainer when it comes to improving our cloud application performance.”

Peter Boonstra
Canon

ABOUT NITROSPHERE
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