Tadpole Enters SPARC-Based Appliance Market Leveraging Stonesoft's Secure Application Initiative.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CARLSBAD, Calif. & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2001 Tadpole tadpole, larval, aquatic stage of any of the amphibian animals. After hatching from the egg, the tadpole, sometimes called a polliwog, is gill-breathing and legless and propels itself by means of a tail. Extends Its Platforms for Compute Dense Environments and Launches Best-of-Breed UltraSPARC(TM) Appliances Pre-Loaded With Stonesoft's ServerCluster Software to Ensure 24x7 Applications and Databases; New Line of Mid-Range, Highly-Flexible and Easily-Implemented Data Base Redundancy Solutions for Mid-Sized Enterprises Tadpole has allied with Stonesoft(TM) and becomes one of the founding members of the software firm's new Secure Application Partner Program. The alliance facilitates Tadpole's entry into the $16 billion appliance market and enables it to offer mid-sized enterprises best-of-breed plug and play UltraSPARC-based systems pre-loaded with Stonesoft's advanced ServerCluster(TM) software to ensure high-availability applications and databases. Tadpole's new appliances will slash the time it takes a customer to evaluate and install a new system, and gives the added benefits of making customers more productive in a shorter timeframe, saving them money, and dramatically reducing operational risks. The alliance generates mutual benefits to Tadpole and Stonesoft allowing each to accelerate their growth strategies from the fast growing appliance market. Research firm IDC estimates the overall appliance server market at $16 billion with growth at more than 50 percent a quarter. Stonesoft's Secure Application Partner Program initiative is a global program aimed at helping leading IT vendors and providers to better respond to the demanding requirements of secured, highly-available enterprise environments. The initiative calls for leading IT vendors with enabling, complementing, or reinforcing technologies to integrate into Stonesoft's pre-tested and certified interoperability solutions yielding reduced deployment cycle and higher confidence in enterprise security or application availability. Tadpole's new line of Stonesoft-certified appliances are designed as building blocks to meet customers' specific network requirements and provide key business advantages of plug-in deployment, early return on investment, and reduced total cost of ownership. The Solaris-based appliances, clustered with Stonesoft's ServerCluster, allows applications and databases to migrate automatically from one appliance to another in the event of software crash or system failure thus keeping applications and data available on a 24 x 7 basis. They also allow system administrators to easily switch-over appliances for maintenance purposes, or to scale out the cluster by bringing new appliances into the cluster on-line. For pricing and availability, contact Tadpole on 760/929-0992, or by email to sales@tadpole.com Executive Comments Robert Butchko, Tadpole's vice president of sales and marketing, comments: "Tadpole's new appliances embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. with Stonesoft's clustering and security gateway applications opens a new page in the company's history of building best-of-breed systems for compute dense environments. Mid-sized enterprises now have tailored SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill solutions that can be simply installed out-of-the-box into existing networks, and will dramatically reduce customers' deployment and operational costs." George Stacey George Stacey (born in April 1887 in Thorpe Hesley) was an English football player. In his early days, he played for Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Thornhill United, Barnsley F.C., and Rotherham County F.C.. In April 1907, he was sold to Manchester United F.C. , director of Stonesoft's Global Infrastructure Partner program, adds: "Our relationship with Tadpole initiates a new, dynamic, and growth orientation for Stonesoft and our partners. The introduction of pre-configured ServerCluster platforms is only the beginning. As Stonesoft announces new applications we will partner with industry leaders like Tadpole to serve an ever-growing demand for "appliantized" solutions. About Stonesoft Stonesoft Corp. (HEX: SFT SFT Statens Forurensningstilsyn (Norwegian Pollution Control Authority) SFT System Fault Tolerance SFT Shaft SFT Secure File Transfer SFT School Food Trust (UK) SFT Societe Francaise des Traducteurs 1V) is a worldwide software company with international headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, U.S. headquarters in Atlanta and Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore. Stonesoft provides enterprise-level network security 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. clustering technology for companies deploying business-critical network applications on Internet and mobile servers. All of Stonesoft's solutions are designed to Enable the Secure, Highly Available Enterprise(SM). For more information about Stonesoft and its products and services, visit www.stonesoft.com. About Tadpole Tadpole (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :TAD) builds and markets specialized Unix platforms and solutions for compute intensive environments. The company's hardware lines include laptops and transportable servers, rack mountable compute servers, and enterprise appliances. Tadpole's platforms are resource manageable, power saving space saving, and offer early return on investment. They offer expanded PCI slots, extended memory capacities, expanded I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output capabilities and hot swap To pull out a component from a system and plug in a new one while the main power is still on. Also called "hot plug" and "hot insertion," hot swap is a feature of USB devices, allowing an external drive, network adapter or other peripheral to be plugged in without having to power down the disk drives all specially configured to meet individual customer requirements. All Tadpole solutions are best-of-breed and 100 percent Sun-SPARC binary compatible (1) Refers to any data, hardware or software structure (data file, machine code, instruction set, etc.) in binary form that is 100% identical to another. See binary compare. . The company is also one of Sun's elite Master Value Added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. Integrators (MVAIs) that design and manufacture specialized system infrastructure solutions for the Sun server market. For more information, visit www.tadpole.com. Stonesoft and ServerCluster are the property of Stonesoft Corp. UltraSPARC is a trademark or registered trademark of SPARC International See SPARC. licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. All other product names mentioned in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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