TurboLinux Ships Next Generation Cluster Server; TurboLinux Advances Upon Its Industry-Leading Linux Clustering Solution.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2000 TurboLinux, Inc., the high-performance Linux company, today announced general availability of its new and advanced TurboLinux Cluster Server See Microsoft Cluster Server. 6. The new Cluster Server 6 has dramatically enhanced the core clustering technology to meet and exceed customer demand. Cluster Server 6 is now offered as a pure application, allowing it to be installed on top of TurboLinux Server or Red Hat. TurboLinux also continues to offer heterogeneous server clustering See clustering. support for Linux, Unix, Solaris and 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. NT/2000. "Today Linux is often found supporting important Web and network infrastructure services which absolutely must provide high performance and be highly available," said Dan Kusnetzky, VP system software for International Data Corporation. "IT management would be well advised to consider products such as TurboLinux's Cluster Server 6 when designing a high-performance, highly available network." "TurboLinux has once again revolutionized the Linux clustering market by advancing upon its award-winning TurboCluster Server 4.0," said Rok Sosic, TurboLinux CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "The new TurboLinux Cluster Server 6 offers a robust, secure and highly available solution at a very affordable price." TurboLinux's Cluster Server 6 offers customers one of the most affordable and robust web clustering solutions on the market. The new TurboLinux application further demonstrates TurboLinux's commitment to customers and to pioneering technology innovations within the 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 scalability space. TurboLinux Cluster Server 6 is already deployed at sites around the world, including Birkenstock's new online Web store, clustering the Web site behind ASP translation service Worldlingo.com, and as the clustering infrastructure for one of the largest ISPs in the Mediterannean, Planitis.Net. TurboLinux has added more than 20 new powerful features, building upon the award-winning technology of its original TurboCluster Server 4.0, honored by Linux Journal Linux Journal is a monthly magazine published by Belltown Media, Inc. of Houston, Texas. The magazine has been published since March 1994. Linux Journal as the Best Web Solution and selected as Best Product for Enterprise Customers at the prestigious IT 2000 Sydney conference. TurboLinux developed a completely new and easy-to-use web-based administration framework, Cluster Management Console (CMC (Common Messaging Calls) A programming interface specified by the XAPIA as the standard messaging API for X.400 and other messaging systems. CMC is intended to provide a common API for applications that want to become mail enabled. 1. ), for managing the cluster. In addition to allowing administrators to check on the status of their cluster, administrators can now view real-time graphical statistics on site, service, node performance and load. TurboLinux Cluster Server 6 also supports web farms of up to 250 clusters of unlimited nodes. To learn more about Cluster Server 6 visit http://www.turbolinux.com/products/tcs/. Pricing and Availability TurboLinux Cluster Server 6 is available from the TurboLinux Web site (www.turbolinux.com) and from our global network of solutions partners. Cluster Server 6.0 is priced at $995 for a two node cluster and $1995 for a 10 node cluster. Contact us at sales@turbolinux.com or 650-228-5079 for more information. System Requirements -- Intel x86 architecture CPU, including Intel, AMD and Cyrix models -- IBM VGA-compatible display adapter (PCI/AGP SVGA card recommended) -- 16 Mb RAM (128Mb recommended) -- 150-700Mb hard disk space -- Network card required -- 3.5-inch floppy drive About TurboLinux, Inc. Founded in 1992, TurboLinux is a market leader in Linux software clustering solutions and Linux internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation , with investment from some of the world's largest computer companies, including Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Novell, Oracle and SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. . Headquartered near San Francisco with offices around the world, TurboLinux solutions are supported globally by Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. TurboLinux is located on the Internet at www.turbolinux.com. TurboLinux is a registered trademark of TurboLinux, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other registered trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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