App Acceleration

Prisma SASE App Acceleration

Up to 5X faster than direct-to-internet.

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Gartner report| The only Leader in single-vendor SASE. Period.

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WHY IT MATTERS

Poor network connectivity and excessive application latency slow performance, increase user frustration and reduce productivity.

What is App Acceleration?

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Computing user interactions to reduce app latency.

Modern applications powered by personalized, real-time dynamic content are the backbone of employee productivity but introduce a "latency tax" on app performance. App Acceleration leverages an intelligent App-Aware edge platform to understand how employees interact with SaaS and other cloud-based applications and uses that information to intelligently prepare content, boosting the responsiveness of cloud applications up to 5 times faster than direct-to-Internet.

Boosting connectivity for distributed workforces.

Today's distributed workforces rely heavily on wireless connections to access the apps and data they need. However, these connections suffer from packet loss and interference that impacts network performance and user productivity. App Acceleration overcomes these issues to deliver consistent connectivity everywhere.

Best-in-class security without compromises

App Acceleration provides the superior protection of ZTNA 2.0, including AI/ML-powered in-line protections to safeguard against even the most sophisticated and persistent threats, while providing full DLP support to protect all data from accidental or intentional exfiltration attempts - all while delivering faster than direct-to-app performance.

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“At Slack, we know it's important for users to be able to get the right information whenever they need it, which is why we're taking a collaborative approach to delivering an AI-powered platform for work. When joint customers integrate Palo Alto Networks' Application Acceleration technology with Slack, they can gain a significant performance boost and dramatically reduced file download time, while prioritizing security. We look forward to seeing how this integration enables users to save time and be more productive throughout their workday.”

Milena Talavera, senior vice president of software engineering, Slack

“Google Workspace extends its industry-leading security capabilities with an ecosystem of market- leading security partners to give Workspace customers freedom and flexibility of choice to meet their individual security posture requirements. Palo Alto Networks is a strategic partner of our ecosystem, and we're excited to see the availability of Prisma SASE App Acceleration and the benefits it will deliver to Workspace users.”

Yulie Kwon Kim, vice president of product, Google Workspace

“Zoom Workplace, our AI-powered one collaboration platform, redefines how organizations connect and communicate, driving efficiency and effectiveness like never before. By pairing with Palo Alto Networks' App Acceleration for Prisma SASE, we're not just redefining how teams connect and collaborate, but also enabling every interaction to be safeguarded by industry-leading security and consistently optimized for the best user experience. It's this seamless integration of cutting-edge technology and unwavering commitment to offering the best user experiences that sets us apart, empowering organizations to communicate freely, securely, and with confidence.”

Brendan Ittelson, chiefe ecosystem officer, Zoom

“The collaboration between ServiceNow and Palo Alto Networks, through the integration of Prisma SASE App Acceleration technology, signifies a leap forward in how we envision and deliver secure, high-performance IT solutions and experiences. By harnessing the strengths of both platforms, we offer unparalleled security and operational efficiency, ensuring that our customers can achieve their business objectives more effectively. This powerful synergy enhances the Now Platform’s ability to deliver better outcomes faster and more securely to our global customer base.”

Pablo Stern, senior vice president and general manager of technology workflow products, ServiceNow

OUR APPROACH

Optimize User Experiences

CLOUD ACCELERATION

Computing the future for immediate content delivery

App Acceleration understands the user’s journey within any application to forecast their next actions and compute the required dynamic content. This foresight allows the system to preemptively request the content needed for that user session, initiating the loading and security processing ahead of time. When the user makes the request, the content is already prepared and fully scrubbed, having been run through the full suite of Prisma SASE security capabilities to ensure protection from even the most sophisticated threats.

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ENHANCED THROUGHPUT

Addressing poor performance due to changing network conditions

App Acceleration performs aggressive tuning of the TCP window to boost initial throughput for all connections. It then creates a custom packet flow profile for every user session and updates it in real time. By taking into account network, device and app context to create the profile, App Acceleration can send the maximum amount of data to the user at all times, to mitigate the effects of conditions like packet loss, packet corruption and jitter.

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ENRICHED OBSERVABILITY

Near-native everything

App Acceleration for Prisma SASE can help businesses dramatically reduce their MTTR with improved observability. What’s more, App Acceleration adds rich Real User Metric (RUM) data to enhance observability with AI-Powered ADEM natively integrated into Prisma SASE.

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