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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]
Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 2.5.x: Building a Virtual Infrastructure From Server to Storage
White Papers This paper discusses the virtual storage solutions that reduce cost, increase storage utilization, increase fault tolerance, and address the challenges of backing up and restoring VMware ESX server environments using Network Appliance technology.
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 Building a Virtual Infrastructure From Server to Storage
White Papers This technical report discusses the virtual storage solutions that reduce cost, increase storage utilization, increase fault tolerance, and address the challenges of backing up and restoring VMware ESX Server environments by using Network...
[November 19, 2007, 10:30]
Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Utilizing Network Appliance Storage Solutions
White Papers The solution leverages Network Appliance FAS storage systems in conjunction with NetApp data management software. Large, hosted Exchange Server messaging environments require high-performance system architectures in order to meet or exceed customer...
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
Security Appliance OEM Doubles Revenue After Moving From Linux to Windows Server
White Papers By moving its security appliances from Linux to Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Celestix Networks enhanced the security of its appliances and made them easier to deploy and manage, helping to double...
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
Streaming Analytics With the Netezza Performance Server Appliance: Bringing Appliance Simplicity to Advanced Analytics
White Papers The architecture of its Netezza Performance Server (NPS) system is based on this principle, improving performance by orders of magnitude. As the pioneer in appliances for analytic processing, Netezza recognized years ago that operating at streaming...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Network Appliance Technical Case Study: Using a NetApp SAN with VMware to Facilitate Storage and Server Consolidation
White Papers VMware allows companies to reduce server counts by 50% or more without major application changes, while making it possible to adapt much more rapidly to support new projects and new applications. This technical study reviews how the combination of...
[November 19, 2007, 10:30]
Cobalt: There will be no Apple Cube lawsuit
News Cobalt Networks, the server appliance manufacturer acquired last year by Sun for £1.2bn, has laid to rest any lingering suspicions that it plans to sue Apple over the use of the Cube trademark. Cube Computer Corporation sued Cobalt Networks in...
[April 25, 2001, 18:00]
Small business server appliances review
Reviews When Sun pulled the plug on its Cobalt product line in 2003, some analysts predicted that the server appliance market would suffer a similar fate. But that doesn’t necessarily mean reduced functionality: appliance servers can enable small...
[October 12, 2004, 11:15]
Healthy future for Linux - Dataquest
News Dataquest forecasts Linux servers will account for 24 percent of worldwide server appliance revenue by 2003 -- giving the open source operating system a price tag of $3.8bn (£2.3bn) and putting shipments of server appliances at 1.1 million.
[July 20, 1999, 9:37]
Irish start-up picks up where Sun left off
News Irish start-up Antefacto has picked up a part of the lucrative appliance server market vacated by Sun Microsystems last year. After Sun bought appliance server maker Cobalt Networks in the autumn of 2000, the computing giant quietly dropped the...
[February 13, 2002, 10:53]
Sun kills Cobalt
News Just three years after Sun paid £1.2bn for server appliance maker Cobalt networks, the computing giant has killed off the line. On the company's Web site, the latest Cobalt appliance server, the dual-processor Raq 550, has joined the Raq4R and...
[December 31, 2003, 9:55]
IBM hopes to toast Sun with new appliance
News Following a flurry of mid-range and high-end Unix server announcements this week, IBM will next week begin shipping production models of its first full-featured appliance server. The xSeries Hosting Appliances server, due to ship on 16 April, is a...
[April 12, 2002, 14:25]
Networks Telecom: Do you need a dedicated network monitor?
News Network monitor company Mutiny has launched a sub-£10,000 dedicated network monitor, which runs on a Toshiba SG-20 mini-server appliance. It is reportedly the first value-added software to be delivered on the Toshiba appliance.
[June 26, 2002, 15:10]
Email security appliances review
Reviews There are lots of good reasons for considering a separate security appliance rather than running antivirus and spam filtering applications on a mail server. And whereas add-on applications may adversely affect mail server performance, an...
[November 12, 2004, 16:25]
TechNet Webcast: Branch Consolidation With Windows Server and Cisco WAN Optimization (Level 300)
White Papers Running Windows Server on the Cisco Wide-Area Appliance Service (WAAS) branch office solution reduces the cost and complexity of providing IT services in branch locations with accelerated access to centralized applications and secure and reliable...
[April 30, 2009, 1:19]
Google boosts Search Appliance capacity
News Google has expanded the capacity of its Search Appliance and made other improvements to the customised server that lets users search their companies' documents. Adobe is among the customers using the appliance, Glotzbach said.
[August 6, 2008, 9:15]
Data Warehouse Technologies: an Architectural Comparison
White Papers The Netezza Performance Server® system is a data warehouse appliance designed specifically for powering complex ad-hoc analysis of terabytes of dynamic, detailed data. This paper compares the architecture of the Netezza Performance Server (NPS...
[April 12, 2005, 0:00]
Mirapoint RazorGate 100 review
Reviews The two-stage filtering process also allows marked-up messages to be processed by the target mail server rather than the appliance itself. A 1U rack-mount appliance, the RazorGate 100 features an Intel Xeon processor and attaches to the local...
[November 12, 2004, 16:05]
Social Networking Now Under Big Yellow's Control, Thanks to Bloxx
White Papers Big Yellow installed the Bloxx appliance as a proxy server on its network. The appliance was integrated with Microsoft Active Directory and is configured to filter web traffic depending on the end user.
[March 10, 2009, 0:21]
