Nando Media Delivers Digital News Using Industry Standard Servers From Dell; Price-to-Performance Advantage Drives Adoption of Industry Standard Servers Over UNIX.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2002 Nando Media, a pioneer in electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. , delivers affordable, around-the-clock Web site solutions for its newspaper clients using Dell's industry standard PowerEdge(tm) servers. "We provide hosting services, 24-hour news and sports content and the content management system for newspapers across the country. These customers are very price sensitive so it is imperative to offer a competitively priced product," said Joe Overocker, director of technology for Nando Media. "Dell's scaleable servers provided us comparable performance at a significantly lower price-to-performance ratio than the Unix systems Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services we had. Moving to industry standard systems was a key strategic business decision for us." Nando, the interactive publishing arm of The McClatchy Co. newspaper chain, publishes "The Nando Times" and "The SportServer" national Web sites. It also provides the Digital Workbench(tm), a complete Web-based publishing solution and support product for online publishers. The Digital Workbench is based on a three-tiered architecture using servers for database, page update processor and content processor. Running Free BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. , an advanced operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , the Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. 6450 servers provide the database; PowerEdge 1550s are the fileservers and 2550s are application servers, and the Dell PowerApp.120(tm) is the Web server. Clients may employ more Web servers to handle larger loads and the Web servers are not limited by operating system or Web server software. Nando currently has more than 100 Dell PowerEdge servers in use and also is standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. on Dell Latitude Dell's Latitude laptop brand is specifically targeted at the business market which means that standardized parts are used throughout the line and are available for several years for support purposes, as opposed to the Dell Inspiron which is aimed at the consumer market and whose (tm) notebooks and Dell OptiPlex Dell, Inc. targets its OptiPlex™ line of desktop computers for sale into the corporate, government and education markets. These systems typically contain Intel CPUs, beginning with the Pentium and currently with the Core 2 although Dell sells some models with AMD CPUs as well. (tm) desktop systems. "It is an extremely scaleable architecture, allowing for the addition of Web servers as a client's site grows," Overocker said. "The stability of the Dell/Intel platform has been outstanding -- equal to what we had previously with our more expensive systems, which couldn't touch the price-to-performance ratio of the Dell systems." The reliability of the Nando architecture served a far greater audience than average in the days following the Sept. 11 terrorists' attacks. Nando's access to major wire reports and its ability to deliver updated packages of the news on its Web sites was not disrupted while many newspapers experienced problems accessing national news feed services. More than two-dozen additional newspapers used the Nando site for updated coverage of the events. "The number of page views served by our Web sites quadrupled, however we never had an interruption in service and our page load times remained at very good levels," said Kathy Ives, director of marketing for Nando Media. "While it was not the way we would choose to validate our operations, it was a testimony to the reliability of our network architecture." About Nando Media A pioneer in Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. , Nando Media brings efficiency to online publishing with tools and services to help businesses succeed on the Web. Nando offers a complete publishing solution for its publishing clients, including The Digital Workbench(tm) content management system, 24-hour news and special topic packaged content, hosting and ad management services. The Digital Workbench publishing system is currently being used to publish 15 McClatchy Co. and non-McClatchy newspaper sites, including The Bakersfield Californian and The Winnipeg Free Press The Winnipeg Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Founded in 1872, as the Manitoba Free Press, it is the oldest newspaper in western Canada. It is the newspaper with the largest readership in the province. . From its Digital Workbench publishing solutions to contextually relevant content, Nando leverages its years of publishing experience, extensive partnerships and technical expertise to meet customers' ongoing needs for Web development. Nando Media is the interactive media division of The McClatchy Co. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MNI See Merom New Instructions. ), one of the nation's top 10 newspaper companies. The company's Web site is located at www.nandomedia.com. About Dell 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) is the world's No. 1 computer systems company and is a premier provider of products and services required for customers to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. The company's revenue for the past four quarters totaled $31.8 billion. Dell ranks No. 48 on the Fortune 500, No. 122 on the Fortune Global 500 and No. 7 on the Fortune Global "most admired" lists of companies. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. 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