Coyote Point's Equalizer "Rises to the Top" in InternetWeek's Test of Load Balancing Appliances.Business & Technology Editors SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2000 Equalizer Ranks First in Price/Performance, Shares Overall Top Ranking with Intel, Beating F5, Lightspeed Systems, and Resonate Coyote Point Systems announces that CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Media's InternetWeek has ranked Coyote Point's Equalizer tops for price/performance in a test-based review of 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 appliances and software products, published in the April 24 issue. In overall ranking, Coyote Point's E-250 tied for the top spot with the Intel Netstructure 7180 -- a product listing for over ten times the E-250's $3,995 price tag, which is less than half that of any other product tested. Products from F5, Lightspeed and Resonate were tested as well as those from Intel and Coyote Point. The load balancing products were tested using RadView's WebLoad to create a load on virtual server clusters composed of servers with varying capabilities. Products were assessed on the basis of how well their load balancing algorithms evened the loads. Coyote Point's E-250 was credited with effective load distribution for a full set of load balancing algorithms, top reporting features and management interface, and ease of setup. Due notice was also given to a preconfiguration option, making the Equalizer plug-and-play, and a new 2U enclosure, reducing costs in collocated environments. Equalizer received the only "A" grade in Price/Performance, as well as A's for Installation, Manageability, Documentation (obviating ob·vi·ate tr.v. ob·vi·at·ed, ob·vi·at·ing, ob·vi·ates To anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary. See Synonyms at prevent. the need for on-site installation or expensive training/tech support), and Overall. "We're delighted that InternetWeek took full account of the whole price/performance equation in load balancing," said Bill Kish, Coyote Point's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "In addition to helping network administrators sleep at night by providing fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , a load balancer should help scale the entire system -- while requiring virtually no maintenance and little setup labor. We appreciate InternetWeek's recognition of the value of our fine-grained server performance data, pre-configuration option, low product installation and maintenance costs and low base price -- a full value package." The InternetWeek load balancing review can be read at http://www.internetwk.com/lead/lead041800.htm. The competitive rankings are available in the print edition only. About Coyote Point Systems Coyote Point Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of server management devices for enabling scalable, highly-available server clusters. Recognized for intuitive configuration and low maintenance, price/performance and superior trending analysis, Coyote Point's Equalizer ensures fast connections and fail-safe 24x7 access to web sites and other critical Internet and intranet applications. Envoy, a software add-on, enables Equalizer to direct online traffic across multiple server clusters located anywhere in the world. Coyote Point solutions support all Internet protocols Refers to all the standards that keep the Internet running. The foundation protocol is TCP/IP, which provides the basic communications mechanism as well as ways to copy files (FTP) and send e-mail (SMTP). and accommodate all operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and can be contacted directly at 650-969-6000 or on the web at www.coyotepoint.com |
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