ALTOONA, Pa. -- Sheetz Inc. has purchased the Stampede Technologies Inc. Stampede Application Acceleration Series. With this solution, the retailer expects to achieve network and application performance increases sufficient to allow the company to improve end-user productivity without costly network infrastructure upgrades, it said.
The Stampede Application Acceleration Series is a two-sided hardware/software acceleration solution for maximizing performance and bandwidth utilization of web-based enterprise applications. It employs performance-enhancing [image-nocss] technologies such as TurboStreaming (for accelerating compressed or encrypted objects), SSL Client-side Termination (for accelerating SSL transactions), Intelligent Cache Differencing, Image Transformation, Connection Management and Load Balancing, providing significant performance enhancement, said the Dayton, Ohio-based provider of acceleration solutions for web-enabled enterprise applications.
These optimization technologies support traditional HTTP/HTTPS, legacy TCP and the emerging Web 2.0/AJAX application environments, it added. Also, Stampede's Acceleration On-Demand client technology is the first client technology to be automatically injected into the responses sent to the end user, without the need to install software at the client, the company said.
"The Stampede software improved the performance of our web-based applications at our retail locations. It was easy to install and deploy," said Jim Wenner, director of programming for Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz.
"Our Stampede Application Acceleration Series excels in environments like Sheetz that have large numbers of remote locations," said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies' president and CEO.
Sheetz operates 329 convenience locations throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina.
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