But he's also in the process of switching over 68 application servers from NT to Unix.
Several years ago, he co-founded Gluecode , a developer of open source application servers.
Absolutely not, but the transition to specialized, application servers has already begun for at-scale, cloud datacenters and will continue rapidly.
The same clients who are purchasing NT-based servers for some client and application servers are sticking with Unix for business-critical applications, Yeates said.
"Typically, you don't think of NetWare and application servers in the same space, " says Todd Chipman, an analyst with Giga Information Group in Cambridge, Mass.
He says Microsoft currently has the application servers and the clients, such as Pocket PC and the Stinger smart phones currently under development, but lacks the glue to tie the two together.
Others say more and more data is being housed on application servers accessible via the Web and that opportunities are essentially limitless - regardless of how late Novell is getting into the market.
Having been caught out by the Internet-stoked demand for web and application servers as well as the very late arrival of Windows 2000 and Intel's Itanium chip, both have recently produced high-end servers that have outscored Sun's in benchmark tests.
But for servers that support more than one application or virtualized servers, there is more modeling to do.
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Sagan figures Akamai is perfectly positioned to solve all three problems, making a software application stored on Akamai servers act just like the application on a PC's own hard drive.
If they were then connected with a Nexus switch, the online banking application in New York could pull computing power from virtual servers in Boston during the day and the bill processing application could tap into virtual servers in New York at night.
Mobile Server works by taking in application data from servers and transforming it into formats such as the Wireless Markup Language or compact HTML for presentation on wireless devices.
In creating the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report, input was collected from a variety of application spaces (servers, data center networks, high-performance computing, financial markets, carrier and cable operators, Internet exchanges, the scientific community, etc.) and from different geographic regions.
Our big idea was this: Write an application that lives on servers at three different companies.
"The LSI PCIe-based WarpDrive card offers simple, effective, and affordable application acceleration for enterprise servers, " said Bob Farkaly, director of marketing, Storage System products for Exar.
Once a year, a few days before that year's messages are set to go out, the application running on Codefix servers will send a message to Yahoo!
To really squeeze your power consumption you need to be able to manage your data center like a video game, watching application usage, powering servers up and down, shifting load from one data center to another, reconfiguring racks and servers with power and cooling impact in mind.
All you had to do was download an application to connect to central servers.
Server optimization features such as SSL termination and compression technologies use specialized hardware to offload compute-intensive operations from the servers to the application delivery controllers.
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The HP Moonshot system consists of the HP Moonshot 1500 enclosure and application-optimized HP ProLiant Moonshot servers.
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Even though Forbes magazine has been around for 85 years, and Forbes.com for a decade, we can't just assume that the company will be around in another 20 years--or that a database and application will be safe sitting on our servers for that long.
Often an end user application can be supported by several workloads distributed across servers.
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These include their Syncro products designed for an SMB clustered DAS application but also used to replace boot disks in blade servers with a centralized Syncro MX boot appliance that can support 24-48 servers.
It uses the web application acceleration features that F5 usually deploys in front of web servers to allow faster access to those applications in a secure manner.
That makes it possible to see which blade servers are available for use, automatically provision them to an application, and add or remove blades as needed, without going through the operating system or any other intermediary software.
Tests in sterile environments have successfully reduced the number of servers by up to 90 percent without having any negative effect on application performance.
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Today, it is more widely appreciated that by moving an application to the cloud, less people are needed to rack and stack technology, demand for servers decrease, the need for cooling and power generation decreases as well, to take three prominent examples of costs savings.
Setting up redundant servers for static HTML files is easy, but a database replication in a complex database-backed application is another.
This not only improves application performance but also reduces server CPU utilization by as much as 30 percent, which potentially reduces the number of servers needed.
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