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Published Date: June 12, 1998
Company Name: Valence Research, Inc.
Address: 15455 NW Greenbrier Parkway, Suite 242
Beaverton, OR 97006
Main Telephone
Number: 503/531-8718
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.valence.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Dr. William L. Bain
Investor Relations
Contact: Privately Held
Public Relations
Contact: Kevin J. Briody
Business number: 503/531-8718
Industry: Clustering/Load Balancing Software
Company Description: Valence Valence, city, France Valence (väläNs`), city (1990 pop. 65,026), capital of Drôme dept., SE France, in Dauphiné, on the Rhône River. Research, Inc. develops advanced software products that use clustering technology to enhance the availability and scalability How much a system can be expanded. See scalable. scalability - How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it of mission critical applications. The company's Convoy convoy Vessels sailing under the protection of an armed escort. Since the 17th century, neutral powers have claimed the right of convoy in wartime, providing warships to escort their merchantmen and keep them secure from search or seizure. Cluster(tm) Software employs advanced clustering technology to scale the performance of Internet/Intranet services and ensure their uninterrupted service after system outages. Convoy delivers best-of-class A product considered to be superior within a certain category of hardware or software. It does not mean absolute best overall; for example, the best-of-class in a low-priced category may be seriously inferior to the best product on the market, which could sell for ten times as much. performance at an industry-leading price, a combination unsurpassed by competing hardware and software load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them products. Valence Research, Inc. customers include such high profile Web sites as www.microsoft.com, www.realnames.com, and www.books.com. Customers are currently applying Convoy to a wide array of other applications, including use with Microsoft's Terminal Server, Transaction Server, and SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. Server. Convoy Cluster Software has also received several industry awards for excellence, most recently the Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. Magazine Editor's Choice Award in a competition among Web load balancing products. CONTACT: Valence Research, Inc. |
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