Cisco Makes Strategic Investment in Persistence Software Inc.; PowerTier technology to drive performance of next-generation network service products.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 1998--Cisco Systems Inc. has made an equity investment in Persistence Software Inc., and has selected the Persistence PowerTier application server as a strategic technology component for their next generation of network service and network management products. The PowerTier technology will provide performance and scalability for managing complex network services such as those available within Cisco IOS Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and all current Cisco network switches. IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking and telecommunications functions tightly integrated with a software. "Persistence is a strategic business and technology partner, delivering performance and scalability for Cisco customers building Internet applications," stated Charlie Giancarlo, Vice President of Global Alliances for Cisco. "The Persistence PowerTier technology will enable our next-generation network service products to manage complex transactions involving dynamic data with high performance and scalability." The key behind the Persistence PowerTier is a radical new architecture that stores the most frequently used business information in an in-memory cache. Unlike first generation application servers, PowerTier provides split-second response to user requests. Rather than having to pass every user request over the network to the back-end database A back-end database is a database that is accessed by users indirectly through an external application rather than by application programming stored within the database itself or by low level manipulation of the data (e.g. through SQL commands). , the PowerTier server manages frequently accessed data in memory, thereby satisfying the majority of user information requests at in-memory speeds. "Building an efficient information network requires smart caching," stated Ed Kozel, Chief Technical Officer of Cisco. "Cisco is pleased to be working with Persistence to include PowerTier application-level caching to optimize use of network bandwidth. We view this as one of the essential capabilities of Cisco's core architecture for network services." In addition to accelerating the performance of the back-end database, the in-memory caching capabilities of the Persistence PowerTier greatly reduce network traffic between the application server and the relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. . This optimizes the use of precious network bandwidth. "The first generation of application servers were great for supporting simple browser clients but lousy lous·y adj. lous·i·er, lous·i·est 1. Infested with lice. 2. Extremely contemptible; nasty: a lousy trick. 3. at delivering real business information," said Christopher Keene, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Persistence. "With the Persistence PowerTier, you run your business state closer to the users who need it, dramatically improving response times while reducing network traffic. For Cisco customers, the PowerTier redefines the economics for implementing complex Internet architectures." Persistence Software, "The Web Scalability Company," develops and markets the PowerTier server and ProActive Agents( real-time event notification Event notification is a term used in conjunction with communications software for linking applications that generate small messages (the "events") to applications that monitor the associated conditions and may take actions triggered by events. system. Founded in 1991, the company is privately held and based in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , with European headquarters in London, England. The company markets its products through a network of regional and international offices and distributors and currently supports over 275 Fortune 1000 customers around the world. News and information are available at http://www.persistence.com. -0- Note to Editors: Cisco IOS and Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. are trademarks, and Cisco and the Cisco logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. Persistence and the Persistence logo are registered trademarks and PowerTier and ProActive Agents are trademarks of Persistence Software in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: UpStart Communications Jozelle Cox, 510/538-9528 jcox@upstart.com or Persistence Software Inc. Amy Ballou, 650/372-3600 amyba@persistence.com |
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