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August 5, 2002

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SpiderSoftware SpiderBox
  • SpiderSoftware has taken its content-caching software and put it in a box -- the SpiderBox. The company says this appliance will make your servers faster and smarter, increasing the number of users on your server by a factor of 5 and speeding content delivery by 40 times over a standalone server. In addition to caching static and rich media content, SpiderBox caches dynamic content, which up to now has only been done with server-side software. The device also offers partial page dynamic content caching. Starts at $9,000.
    SpiderSoftware, (604) 637-0200; fax (604) 637-0205; www.spidersoftware.com

    Covalent Enterprises Enterprise Ready Server

  • Covalent Enterprises has released version 2.2 of its Enterprise Ready Server (ERS), providing backward compatibility for Apache 1.3 modules with Apache 2.0. Covalent is offering the ERS 2.2 in response to users who said they want to run Apache 1.3 modules while taking advantage of the performance enhancements of Apache 2.0 and leveraging their existing infrastructure. ERS 2.2 users can run standard modules that run on Apache modules, BEA's application server modules or applications, such as Netegrity Siteminder, with the stability of Apache 2.0. ERS 2.2 supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP as well as SPARC Solaris 2.6, .7, .8; Red Hat 6.x, 7.x; SUSE 6.2 and 6.4; Caldera TurboLinux 6.0; Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 11; and Microsoft Windows 2000. $1,495 per CPU.
    Covalent Technologies, (800) 444-1935, 415-856-4200; fax (415) 856-4210; www.covalent.net

    Benchmark Storage Innovations ValuSmart 160

  • Benchmark Storage Innovations has raised the tape-drive ante with the next generation of its DLT ValuSmart Tape Drive and accompanying media, the latest addition to its ValuSmart Tape family. The compact, half-height ValueSmart 160 drive incorporates Benchmark's Magneto Resistive heads for greater density and durability, and has 160 GB of compressed capacity and a 16 MB-per-second compressed transfer rate, doubling the capacity of the company's previous offerings. Benchmark's enhanced DLT media format, ValuSmart Media, uses technology co-developed with Sony and can be used with the entire ValuSmart Tape family. Available: Next quarter. $2,000.
    Benchmark Storage Innovations, (720) 406-5111; fax (720) 406-5040; www.4benchmark.com





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