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IBM working on 'Sun-killer' appliance
News IBM is working on a killer appliance which, if it goes into production, will be targeted at the market currently dominated by Sun Cobalt Raq servers -- pizza box-shaped servers that are popular with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) because of...
[February 13, 2002, 10:12]
Security appliances benefit from scares
News Sales of security server appliances grew 10 percent in the second quarter, as sales of low-end appliance servers dedicated to firewalls and virtual private networks helped bolster the industry, according to an IDC report released on Thursday.
[September 19, 2003, 13:10]
FalconStor Continuous Data Protection Virtual Appliance review
Reviews FalconStor supplies the CDP VA on a single CD containing the virtual appliance, Windows agents for servers that are to be protected and a Java utility for managing the appliance. The CD also contains a Linux script that automatically added the CDP...
[January 18, 2008, 7:42]
Plan B Disaster Recovery review
Reviews Plan B, a UK company based in Berkshire, uses an on-site appliance to make daily snapshot backups of your servers, which are sent to the company's datacentres via secure internet links. Plan B's appliance plugs into your network and takes daily...
[December 8, 2008, 12:48]
IBM hopes to toast Sun with new appliance
News The xSeries Hosting Appliances server, due to ship on 16 April, is a high-density, preloaded Web-hosting appliance aimed at those ISPs who currently buy Cobalt Raq servers from Sun Microsystems. Appliance servers are all about getting a Web site...
[April 12, 2002, 14:25]
Zeus ZXTM 4.1 review
Reviews ZXTM comes as software, a hardware appliance and a virtual appliance ready-configured for a Linux environment. It can also be purchased as an appliance, and Zeus offers several versions with the high-end device featuring 4GB RAM and five network...
[April 19, 2007, 8:10]
Sun kills Cobalt
News At Cobalt’s customer conferences, the then chief executive Stephen DeWitt used the analogy of vending machines to demonstrate how appliance servers would revolutionise the way in which companies buy software.
[December 31, 2003, 9:55]
Leader: Raw Iron or Wintel - battle lines are drawn
News At the Las Vegas Comdex show last month, Oracle talked up Real Iron - effectively a plan for a new(-ish) category of devices called ‘appliance servers' that will run a micro-kernel and Orcale's Internet File System rather than a full-blown...
[December 14, 1998, 12:10]
Linksys One NSS4100 review
Reviews We tested the appliance standalone, managing it via the built-in web interface which, although a little slow, is very simple to follow. Rather, one of the rear ports is dedicated to monitoring a UPS (APC only), while the others can only be used to...
[July 22, 2008, 14:37]
Sun hands Cobalt an open-source lifeline
News Although the Cobalt servers are based on the Linux operating system, which is open source anyway, it is the custom code that gave the servers their appliance-like ease of use. Late last month, Sun laid the Cobalt experiment to rest as it relegated...
[January 2, 2004, 10:55]
EMC, CacheFlow partner to counter NetApp
News In a move to catch up with rival Network Appliance, storage giant EMC has signed a deal with CacheFlow for managing data distributed across the Internet. Network Appliance continues to gain momentum as it takes on EMC, for most of the companies...
[February 14, 2001, 8:58]
'Thin' Windows 2000 debuts
News The server appliance market is one area where Windows lags behind rival platforms -- Sun subsidiary Cobalt, which builds thin servers based on the Linux operating system, commands more than 90 precent of the mid-range server appliance market...
[March 1, 2001, 12:55]
Google does the business with new search hardware
News Google's newest appliance, which has five clustered servers, is built to power search for up to 3 million documents. The new technology will come in the form of a mid-range search appliance called the GB-5005, which is a multi-server system that...
[September 30, 2002, 9:20]
Red Hat pushes Linux as a service model
News Red Hat announced a new "appliance" version of RHEL for release next year, which could move software vendors to a new software distribution model. It can be on a physical server, or on a virtual server, or on a compute cloud, or an appliance.
[November 8, 2007, 15:39]
EmergeCore IT-100 review
Reviews The appliance can also act as VPN server for both site-to-site and site-to-client connections using IPSec or PPTP protocols, although client software isn’t provided. Finally, it’s possible to manage access to services on the appliance at the user...
[October 12, 2004, 10:35]
Will SunRay do a JavaStation?
News We had the right goals," says Gene Banman, vice president and general manager of the information appliance and WebTop group at Sun. The new architecture consists of three elements -- the Sun Ray 1 information appliance, Hot Desk technology that...
[September 8, 1999, 11:11]
SurfControl RiskFilter E-mail E10 review
Reviews Here the SurfControl appliance acts as a message transfer agent, intercepting incoming messages for one or more domains or given IP addresses, filtering them, and then relaying those that pass onto the appropriate mail servers.
[November 12, 2004, 16:05]
Netscape founder brings instant extranets to Europe
News Each Neoteris IVE appliance can support thousands of users and needs no configuration of servers or clients to do so. Neoteris sells a single product line, the Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) appliance, which it bills as a solution for companies...
[October 29, 2002, 14:48]
Break free from virtual bondage
News Compute Appliance with 96 processor cores, two Penguin Computing dual-core Linux servers, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and JBoss application server software. The appliance itself is based on a general-purpose 64-bit RISC chip called Vega, which has a...
[November 23, 2005, 16:10]
HP expands server appliance push
News Haff and Harbist agree, though, that HP's most significant competitors are the larger, established companies such as IBM, rather than server appliance specialists such as CacheFlow or F5 Networks. Duane Zitzner, head of HP's computing group, named...
[April 19, 2001, 7:55]
