Coyote Point's Equalizer Keeps Netscape's Web Site Garage Engine Humming; Adaptive Load Balancer Provides Total Fault Tolerance, Unmatched Trend Analysis.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1999-- Coyote Point Systems announced that its adaptive load balancer, Equalizer, is being used by Netscape to help maintain fast connection times for Netscape's Web Site Garage Services on its Netcenter Portal Site. Web Site Garage, one of Netscape's popular Netcenter services, has made a name for itself helping individual and small business Web site owners improve site performance, promote their sites, and communicate with customers. Netscape's Web Site Garage has performed over seven million Web site tune ups to date and faces a daily technological challenge -- maintaining 24X7 high availability for its subscribers. "Because Web Site Garage services on Netcenter handle such a high volume of traffic daily, maintaining high availability and performance is a core credibility requirement for us," explains Gautam Godhwani, co-founder of AtWeb, a company recently acquired by Netscape ((Nasdaq: NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ), which developed the Web Site Garage product line. "Early on we realized that our site would have to be run on multiple servers. We were able to manage our ad-hoc cluster for a while, but eventually we needed an industrial-strength solution. Coyote Point's Equalizer was that solution." As the growing popularity and demand for Netscape's Web Site Garage suite of services accelerated, the company sought a load balancing solution. Coyote Point's Equalizer was chosen after a competitive evaluation. Equalizer is an intelligent load balancing system that distributes requests across server clusters and selects the server best equipped for the next hit. Equalizer knows when a server has failed and automatically directs hits to other machines, preventing failed connections as well as slowdowns. The challenge was particularly great to keep connection times fast on Web Site Garage's Hitometer, a service which tallies site traffic for subscribers. Every visit to a Hitometer subscriber's Web site passes through a server, which generates a "hit counter" image. Currently, 1.5 million such images register on the Hitometer every day. If Hitometer were to respond slowly, visitors to customers' sites would experience the delay -- or worse, the failed connection. Equalizer makes it easy to prevent such failures. Equalizer also takes the guesswork and complexity out of cluster management. Its real-time graphical display of server performance maximizes trend analysis and scalability. Server configurations can be adjusted dynamically, with the Web interface, and site administrators can tell at a glance exactly how each server is performing. And if a server must be taken offline for maintenance, it can be done without disrupting user sessions. The result for Web Site Garage: Connection times improved as traffic hit new heights on all six of its services -- Hitometer, Tune Up, GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. Lube, !Register-It!, Web Site Post Office and Browser Snapshot. About Coyote Point: Coyote Point Systems, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. that produces high-availability and high-performance server cluster products. Its Equalizer 3.0 hardware and Envoy geographical load balancing software supports all Internet protocols and accommodates all operating systems, including those from Sun Microsystems [NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ], Hewlett Packard [NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HWP], Linux, Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ], Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ], IBM [NYSE:IBM] and Intel [NASDAQ:INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ]. Coyote Point's Equalizer works with any IP-based application, including legacy host, mainframe, Java, CORBA-based, and client/server applications from vendors such as SAP [NYSE:SAP], BAAN [NASDAQ: BAANF], Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ], and PeopleSoft [NASDAQ:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ]. Coyote Point's customers include IMDb and Exchange.com, both Amazon.com companies [NASDAQ:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ] ; ValueClick, a top-five ad network; NetCentives/ClickRewards; Be Free, Inc.; Vail Systems, Freemerchant and Vignette [NASDAQ:VIGN]. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and can be contacted directly at 650-969-6000 or on the web at www.coyotepoint.com |
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