Tacit Networks Boosts Storage Caching with New Failover Product; Ensures Service Availability in the Event of Cache Server Failure.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SOUTH PLAINFIELD South Plainfield, borough (1990 pop. 20,489), Middlesex co., NE N.J.; inc. 1926. It is the seat of several research and consulting firms and has plants that make chemicals, plastics, spices and flavorings, cosmetics, rubber products, pigments, electrical machinery, , N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003 Tacit Networks, Inc., an innovator in enterprise-class wide area network (WAN)-based storage consolidation solutions, announced today the availability of a new failover add-on to its storage caching product line. Tacit Networks Storage Caching makes it possible to share files over WANs at near-LAN speeds. With the addition of the Tacit Cache Server A dedicated network server or a service within a server that caches Web pages. Cache servers speed up access to information that has been retrieved previously by the same user or by someone else. See Web cache, origin server, ICP and CARP. failover option, service availability is guaranteed in the event of cache server failure by allowing automatic reroute of traffic to a standby cache server. In this way, critical data is neither lost nor delayed. "Tacit Cache Server failover is part of our overall vision to shrink the WAN down to 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. size in terms of speed, convenience, and efficiency," said Trevor Hughes, vice president of product management for Tacit Networks. "In addition to high speed file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. across the enterprise, we now provide a way, through this failover option, to guarantee that cache server failure will be dealt with seamlessly, eliminating the possibility of downtime and service interruption. This option is a critical requirement for many enterprise customers." Users who purchase the Tacit Cache Server failover option will have an extra Tacit Cache Server at the central site that passively mirrors data from an active Tacit Cache Server. Upon any type of failure, the passive server will immediately take over as the active server. In this way, remote users will experience no discontinuity dis·con·ti·nu·i·ty n. pl. dis·con·ti·nu·i·ties 1. Lack of continuity, logical sequence, or cohesion. 2. A break or gap. 3. Geology A surface at which seismic wave velocities change. or data loss. Tacit storage caching solutions consist of Tacit Storage Cache appliances and Tacit Cache Servers that share information using Storage Caching/Internet Protocol (SC/IP SC/IP Storage Caching/Internet Protocol (Tacit Networks) (TM)), a distributed, fault-tolerant protocol that is optimized for high-latency WAN environments. The Tacit Storage Cache attaches directly to the LAN at a remote site and connects back to a Tacit Cache Server in the data center through a gateway using standard virtual private network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) Internet connections. The Tacit Cache Server is a thin appliance that sits in front of a network attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) or storage area network (SAN) system at the data center and coordinates access by multiple remote Storage Caches to the consolidated storage resources. About Tacit Networks Tacit Networks, based in South Plainfield, N.J., is the leader in enterprise-class WAN-based storage consolidation solutions that deliver near-LAN speed access to data over the WAN. Tacit Networks builds appliances that cache file A file of data on a local hard drive. When downloaded data is temporarily stored on the user's local disk or on a local network disk, it speeds up retrieval the next time the user wants that same data (Web page, graphic, etc.) from the Internet or other remote source. See Web cache and cache. sharing operations. Much like Web caching appliances that improve the performance of content delivery networks, Tacit Storage Caching Appliances dramatically improve the performance of file sharing over WANs. But unlike Web caching devices, the cached data is live, writable and coherently sharable with Tacit caching devices located in authorized remote locations. The company's enterprise-class storage networking expertise is built upon the management, research and engineering teams' track records of success in mission critical storage, both at the software and systems levels. For more information on Tacit Networks Storage Caching solutions, call 1-908-757-9950 or visit Tacit Networks on the Web at www.tacitnetworks.com. |
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