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Breaking News -
Networking:
Coyote Point To Deliver Blade
Server Load Balancing Solutions
Coyote Point Systems, a price/performance leader in Internet traffic
management technology, announced its support for the exploding blade server
market by making its award-winning Equalizer technology available for license
to blade server vendors. Coyote Point's Equalizer technology supports the
needs of IT departments for near 100 percent uptime, optimal server
performance and simplified management, regardless of whether companies deploy
traditional server technology or emerging blade solutions.
More and more enterprises are turning to the blade server option as a means
to
consolidate resources, maximize available real estate in data centers and
simplify overall management of the network. Just as with traditional servers,
blade servers can be clustered to deliver fault tolerant redundancy, superior
performance and stronger security. By making the award-winning Equalizer
technology available to blade server OEMs, Coyote Point will ensure that
enterprises have the option of implementing blade servers or traditional
servers in their back-end infrastructure.
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computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
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"Coyote Point's mission is to make intelligent load balancing as easy to
use
as possible for organizations of any size, whether a Fortune 500 company
running dozens of applications over hundreds of servers, or the smallest local
ISP that wants to deliver the best possible uptime and performance for
customers," said William Kish, founder and CTO of Coyote Point Systems.
"Equalizer technology is ideal for optimizing blade server environments
because Equalizer quickly and efficiently routes traffic to the servers with
the most available capacity, ensuring the system runs at peak performance
levels. Blade server vendors now have the option of adding greater value to
their solutions by making intelligent load balancing an out-of-the-box option
for customers."
A blade server can be thought of as a server on a card. These ultra-dense,
servers-on-a-card each contain a CPU, memory and networking I/O and slide
sideways into a chassis (like books on a shelf) outfitted with power, cooling,
network switches and management features shared by all the blades. In turn,
groups of these chassis can then be housed in a traditional server rack. IDC,
a market research firm based in Framingham, Mass., expects the blade server
market to grow from less than $1 billion in sales in 2003 to $6 billion by
2007, comprising about 27 percent of the server market by that time.
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