Dell Unveils Appliance Servers to Power Internet Infrastructure; Web and Internet Caching Servers Are First Products in New Line.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000 Agreement with F5 Networks for Traffic Management Servers Outlines Future Direction Dell Computer Corporation (company) Dell Computer Corporation - One of the biggest US manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles. "From notebooks to networks", their slogan says. http://us.dell.com. (Nasdaq:DELL), a world leader in Internet commerce and infrastructure, and the No. 2 PC server provider in the world(a), introduced its new line of Dell(R) PowerApp(tm) appliance servers, designed to be installed and operational in minutes, as part of Dell's comprehensive Internet infrastructure strategy announced today. The new turnkey PowerApp appliance servers target the Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and traffic management needs of service providers, dot-coms, and click-and-mortar companies and institutions that are establishing or building out their Internet infrastructures. With the introduction of these new appliance servers, Dell now offers a full range of server and storage products for infrastructure computing. PowerApp appliance servers announced today focus on Web hosting and Internet caching. For Web hosting, PowerApp.web products are dedicated Web servers that include optimized versions of Web hosting software from Microsoft(R) or Red Hat(R) Linux. The PowerApp.web 100 products, priced starting at just $1,899, are orderable today and will ship in early May. Optimized Web server software from Microsoft includes Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Powered Web hosting server software, co-developed by Dell and Microsoft, and Microsoft Internet Information Server See IIS. Microsoft Internet Information Server - Internet Information Server . Optimized Web server software from Red Hat includes Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. and Apache Web server See Apache. . For Internet caching, PowerApp.cache products are dedicated Internet caching servers that leverage Novell Internet Caching System (ICS (1) (Internet Connection Sharing) A Windows feature that enables two or more computers to share one Internet connection. First introduced in Windows 98 Second Edition, sharing is accomplished with network address translation (NAT), which is the common method. ) technology. PowerApp.cache 100 and 200 products, with prices starting at $4,400, are orderable later this month and will ship in May 2000. PowerApp appliance servers are easy-to-install, simple to maintain and low-priced. Complete product specifications are available at www.powerapp.com. Dell also announced today that it has signed an agreement with F5 Networks Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV FFIV Final Fantasy Four (video game) ) for access to all of F5's Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. and content management (iTCM) products. Immediately, Dell and F5 will begin work to bring F5's award-winning 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. and intelligent load-balancing product, the BIG-IP(R) Controller, to market on a Dell PowerApp appliance server. The agreement also calls for the companies to explore additional business opportunities involving other F5 products. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Information on F5 Networks and its products can be found at www.f5.com. Appliance Server Market Opportunity International Data Corporation, a respected industry consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , forecasts the worldwide appliance server market will grow dramatically, from virtually no market presence in 1998 to an estimated volume of over two million units by 2003(b). "Appliance servers represent a significant, incremental growth market over the next three years," said Mark Melenovsky, research manager, Commercial Systems and Servers, IDC. "Dell is positioned to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. this market with its focus on low cost of ownership, time-to-market and direct customer relationships. In addition, the new PowerApp appliance servers contain key product attributes desired by Internet-intensive businesses." "These new PowerApp appliance servers give us the performance and small size that we want, at a value that really makes business sense," said Jay Seaton, VP of Marketing for NaviSite, an ASP and Web hosting company based in Andover, Mass. "Beyond that, we were really impressed with how quickly we got them installed and running." PowerApp.web To address the growing performance needs of companies doing business on the Internet, Dell offers the PowerApp.web 100 appliance server, designed as a low-cost, yet high-performance, turnkey Web server. This extremely rack-dense 1U (1.75-inches) product features simple set-up and administration and outstanding price/performance to deliver Web hosting or IP services. The PowerApp.web 100 for Linux is pre-configured and includes Red Hat Linux 6.2 featuring Apache Web Server 1.3.12, Sendmail, and Piranha piranha: see characin. piranha or caribe Any of several species of deep-bodied, carnivorous fishes in the genus Serrasalmus (family Characidae), abundant in rivers of eastern and central South America and noted for voracity. load balancer installed. The PowerApp.web 100 for Windows, based on Microsoft's Windows Powered Web hosting server software, includes Internet Information Server See IIS. (World-Wide Web) Internet Information Server - (IIS) Microsoft's web server and FTP server for Windows NT. IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs hosting websites that receive 5.0, Microsoft Network See MSN. Microsoft Network - The Microsoft Network 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 Service, and Microsoft Terminal Services for remote administration. Detailed product information can be found at www.powerapp.com. PowerApp.cache PowerApp.cache appliance servers are high-performance, turnkey Internet caching servers that meet the demanding needs of e-commerce applications and permit more efficient online business operations. These rack-dense caching products are designed to be a low-cost, simple solution to deliver Internet performance acceleration for both inbound traffic to Web servers as well as outbound traffic from browsers on a LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. . The 1U PowerApp.cache 100 and 2U PowerApp.cache 200 (3.5-inches) appliance servers are pre-configured with Novell's Internet Caching System application stack. The PowerApp.cache appliance servers can be deployed quickly and easily integrated into a customer's Internet infrastructure with minimum set-up and administration time. Detailed product information can be found at www.powerapp.com. PowerApp Kick-Start and Admin Console Ease Installation and Management PowerApp appliance servers include Dell's own PowerApp Kick-Start Utility, a simple network configuration tool that can be run from the PowerApp appliance or any machine with a Java-enabled browser. This GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. utility allows the user to input basic network information, such as loading of the IP address, naming of the host and gateway and subnet address assignment. From there, the user is taken to the PowerApp Admin Tool, a unified management interface from which a user can conveniently configure, deploy and manage the appliance servers. These features mean that the PowerApp appliance servers can be deployed quickly and easily into a customer's Internet infrastructure with minimum set-up and administration time. About Dell Computer Corporation Dell Computer Corporation is the world's leading direct computer systems company, based on revenues of $25.3 billion for the past four quarters, and is a premier provider of products and services required for customers to build their Internet infrastructures. The company ranks No. 56 on the Fortune 500, No. 210 on the Fortune Global 500 and No. 3 on the Fortune "most admired" lists of companies. Dell designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at www.dell.com. Dell and PowerEdge are registered trademarks and PowerVault and Dell OpenManage are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation. Fortune 500 is a registered trademark of Time Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corp. Microsoft, Windows NT and Windows 2000 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Novell and Netware of registered trademarks of Novell Inc. Red Hat Linux is a registered trademark of Red Hat Inc. (a) Source: International Data Corporation, Commercial Systems and Servers bulletin. Rankings based on U.S. and Worldwide "PC Server Shipments by Vendor" for 4Q99. (b) Source: IDC, "Solutions In A Box - Appliance Servers Shake Up The Server Community, March, 2000." |
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