Clustra and RLX Team to Simplify Always-On Cluster Database

📅 August 29, 2001 - Clustra Systems, Inc. (clustra.com),a leading provider of always-on technology, yesterdayannounced it has joined forces with RLX Technologies(rlxtechnologies.com), a leader in high-density, energy-efficient servers, to streamline theimplementation of always-on distributed applications.The companies say the Clustra DataCenter databaseappliance, combined with the RLX products such as theRLX System 324, sets a new standard for Linux clusterdatabase solutions, enabling anyone to deploy anindustrial-strength, continuously available databasein any location in under one hour.

The Clustra/RLX solution offers improvements indeployment speed, cost, ease of use, superior density,energy efficiency and reliability. The ClustraDataCenter simplifies the installation, operation andadministration of cluster databases, and can easilyscale to up to 100 nodes to meet the most demandingapplication requirements. When deployed on the RLXSystem 324 with the high-density RLX ServerBladedesign and a few additional hardware and softwarecomponents, enterprises can quickly and easily createa complete infrastructure for fully integrated,continuously available, massively scalable distributedapplications - all in a single server rack.
"The RLX and Clustra technologies together have thepotential to close the cost and complexity gap thatuntil now has prevented high-availability clusterdatabases from being the norm rather than theexception," said Dan Leighton, vice president ofproduct marketing at Clustra. "The two companies willbe working together to advance our common vision of aneasy and affordable infrastructure foralways-available applications."
Clustra Systems and RLX Technologies will bedemonstrating a solution combining their products inbooth 439 at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo beingheld this week at San Francisco's Moscone ConventionCenter.

Reads: 1342 | Category: General | Source: TheWHIR : Web Host Industry Reviews
URL source: http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/clustra829.cfm
Want to add a website news or press release ? Just do it, it's free! Use add web hosting news!

Other news

📅 Aug 28, 2001 - Sendmail Presents Email Server for Linux on IBM Mainframe - Sendmail, Inc. (sendmail.com), a leading provider of Internet messaging solutions, announced yesterday the immediate availability of its complete line of products for Linux on the IBM mainframe. Sendmail Switch, Sendmail Advanced Message Server and Sendmail Mobile Message Server on Linux for the mainframe provide cost-effective email systems with high scalability, reliability and manageability. Performance tests conducted by Sendmail, Inc. and IBM demonstrate that a single IBM eServer z900 mainframe can support more than 2 million users, making it the largest single-server email systems on Linux available in the industry. For organizations requiring larger envir

📅 Aug 28, 2001 - AppliedTheory Plans to Appeal NASDAQ Delisting - AppliedTheory Corp. (appliedtheory.com), an Internet services and managed Web hosting partner to hundreds of large enterprise customers, announced yesterday that it received a NASDAQ staff determination on Aug. 22, 2001. This indicated that the company has failed to comply with the $1.00 minimum bid price required for continued listing of its common stock on the NASDAQ National Market as required by NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4450(a)(5) or to regain compliance with that rule in accordance with Marketplace Rule 4310(8)(B), and as a result, the NASDAQ staff has determined to delist the common stock of the company from the NASDAQ National Market. The NASDAQ staff

📅 Aug 28, 2001 - Totality and Internap to Provide Management and Routing Services to E-Businesses - Internap Network Services, (internap.com -> inap.com), a leading provider of intelligent routing services over the Internet, and Totality Corp. (totality.com), a leading provider of application and infrastructure management services for e-businesses, today announced a channel co-marketing agreement with respect to services to large e-businesses in need of outsourced site management and operations. Totality provides a complete outsourced site management and operations solution for Global 2000 e-businesses and high-growth Internet companies. This includes infrastructure development, capacity planning, 24x7 application monitoring, change management, and day-to-day problem

📅 Aug 30, 2001 - Sprint, Dell to Form Web Hosting Alliance - Telecom giant Sprint Corp. and computer manufacturer Dell announced Thursday that the two companies were forging an alliance to offer Web hosting services to the SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) market. Specific financial terms of the deal were not released, although a release from the companies said they expected the agreement to generate "hundreds of millions of dollars in sales between the two companies over the next seven years." Under the agreement, the two companies will develop a number of bundled hosting solutions geared toward small to mid-sized businesses. The packages will feature hardware manufactured by Dell and infrastructure services provided by Spr

📅 Aug 30, 2001 - NetNation Chosen as One of Top 50 Hottest Start-Ups - NetNation Communications, Inc. (netnation.com -> hostway.com), a pioneer and international source for hosting solutions and domain registration, yesterday announced it has been selected as one of Canada's "Hottest Startups" by Profit, a magazine for Canadian entrepreneurs. Profit ranks NetNation among Canada's "Hottest Startups" based on revenue growth over two years: fiscal 2000 over fiscal 1998. In response to this acknowledgment, Joseph Kibur, NetNation's CEO stated "Operating in a growth industry provided enormous opportunities for NetNation, although it is our continued focus on servicing our clients that allowed us to achieve 352% growth." "Canada's Hottes

📅 Aug 30, 2001 - Nortel Delivers Optical Ring for Brazil's Embratel - Nortel Networks (nortelnetworks.com) has delivered a 3,000-kilometer, 10 gigabits-per-second optical ring to Embratel (embratel.com.br), enabling Brazil's leading long-distance carrier to provide scalable and flexible bandwidth for current and future customer demand. This new optical ring is also expected to strengthen Embratel's position as a leader in data, voice and Internet communications in Brazil. Nortel Networks deployed, aligned and tested 37 repeater stations and terminals of the optical ring in less than three weeks. "The new system will provide our customers with access to data services with unprecedented speed, ranging from 155 and 622 m