Peter Aylaian, director of marketing at Adaptec, says he's very surprised that Microsoft would commission a test using Alacritech's card, claiming that Alacritech offers "an absolutely dead-end product." Microsoft hasn't even certified Alacritech's cards for Windows Server 2003 yet, he says. [Ed. note: Sour grapes?] According to the Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), though, all of Alacritech's products have been OK'd for Windows 2000 Server. And we would note that Adaptec still hasn't delivered its own network-accelerator card (see Adaptec Takes Whack at NAC).
Marrone, though, points out that Alacritech has been shipping its technology for more than a year. "It's proven," she says, adding that doing only partial offloads allows the company's technology to maintain many of the benefits of TCP/IP network adapters like load balancing.
More than anything, Marrone says, "Microsoft's decision to do the test with Alacritech proves the point that you actually have to have a shipping product."
Eugénie Larson, Reporter, Byte and Switch
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