Ironhawk’s SmartSync® DCS Platform™ accelerates the delivery of web content for both private and public client-aware cloud initiatives. A good user experience requires high performance which amounts to numerous servers, high capacity per server, significant bandwidth, or lower data usage per user. These facts provide an environment which makes SmartSync® a critical tool for a much improved web application user experience. Features • Passive client is transparent to the user • Provides in-line compression of web content such as HTML, XML, CSS, and Javascript • Provides in-line compression of downloadable web attachments such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Forward and reverse proxy with “never stale” server and client-side caching • Byte-level delta differencing • Resume on transfer failure or disconnect (from the last byte sent) Benefits • 10X improvement in performance and data delivery • Dramatically reduces the amount of bandwidth consumed • Reduces the amount of requests to a server • Reduces the amount of data required per client • Eliminates unnecessary refresh requests • “Resume on Re-Connect” eliminates “thrashing”: when data is sent, incurs a network disconnect, begins sending again, incurs another network disconnect, begins sending again……….and so on….