BroadVision Announces Support for New IBM eServer; Powerful High-end Technologies Infused in New IBM Midrange Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2002 BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), the leading provider of enterprise self-service applications, today announced support for the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) eServer* pSeries 670, which was introduced today. Bringing the technological innovations of the enterprise-class IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. p690 to midrange servers, the new IBM eServer p670 is a powerful complement to BroadVision(R) software and an ideal platform on which to run enterprise self-service applications. The IBM eServer p670 server increases the range of manageable and scalable IBM platforms for BroadVision solutions. The combination of BroadVision software with the new IBM eServer system provides customers with a reliable and scalable e-business infrastructure. "The IBM p670 offers large BroadVision customers new flexibility for their enterprise self-service applications," said Shawn Farshchi, senior vice president, engineering and product development for BroadVision. "Options include horizontal scalability in a single server using partitioning, and vertical scalability up to 16 processors; and with plenty of internal disk space for profile data for a large number of customers." The p670 is based on the IBM POWER POWER is a RISC instruction set architecture designed by IBM. The name is a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC. 4 microprocessor, which debuted in the IBM eServer p690 last fall. POWER4 is the first "server on a chip," containing two one-gigahertz-plus processors, a high-bandwidth system switch, a large memory cache See cache. and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output . This unique design enables the server to conserve energy, while offering tremendous performance. Virtual partitioning allows the IBM eServer p670 to operate as a single large server or multiple servers. It can run AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. and is ready to run 64-bit Linux(TM). The new server offers multiple layers of self-healing technologies that enable it to continue operating -- even through major failures and system errors. "Like IBM eServer p690, the p670 offers extreme performance on a wide range of mission-critical enterprise self-service applications," said Val Rahmani, general manager, IBM Web Servers. "Coupled with key software like BroadVision's, the new IBM eServer gives customers a powerful solution at a midrange price." About BroadVision BroadVision's (Nasdaq: BVSN, Neuer Markt: BDN BDN Borland Developer Network BDN Bangor Daily News (Maine, USA) BDN Business Development Network BDN Bell Data Network BDN Bulk Data Network BDN Busy Doing Nothing (band) BDN Buffered Delta Network ) enterprise self-service applications create immediate business value by transforming the way organizations do business -- moving relationships to a personalized, self-service model that enhances growth, reduces costs and improves productivity. Leading global companies use BroadVision to power their enterprise self-service initiatives -- using the web and wireless devices to unify and extend an enterprise's applications, information and business processes to serve its employees, partners and customers in a personalized and collaborative way. For more information about BroadVision, Inc., call 650/542-5100, email info@broadvision.com or visit www.broadvision.com. About IBM eServer IBM is the number one server vendor in the world.(1) For more information, visit www.ibm.com/eserver. (1) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. 2001 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker BroadVision is a trademark or registered trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. *The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the descriptive term "server" following it. IBM, the e-business logo and pSeries are trademarks of IBM Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. |
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