Living in the world of software we often try and solve all our performance issues by optimizing queries, fine tuning applications and generally looking at any point in the application which can be improved.
Being an architect also means looking outside the box, or maybe more accurately: at the box. What is the hardware and hardware environment that my system, my website, my webapplication is running in? There are some quite interesting hardware solutions to optimizing network traffic and minimizing server load. I've been recently approached by MRA Group and was so intrigued by the solutions that they offer that it didn't take much for me to become their VP Sales for North America.
Strong points about the webacceleration solutions that we offer are that:
a) they are non-intrusive - no code needs to be changesb) the solution is hardware based - it's a box!c) the solution is easy to install, easy to manage - we offer a unique monitoring dashboardd) the solution is a full service solution - you don't need to do anything.
Check out the website for more details:
www.mra-group.com