New servers show shift from generic models
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"Network Appliance will unveil two new Intel-based server appliances Tuesday. The NetCache C6100 and C1105 are designed to help companies stash information such as videos around the Internet. NetApp was one of the first to jump aboard the bandwagon for server appliances, special-purpose machines geared to do one job faster, more cheaply or more easily...
Network Appliance, meanwhile, introduced new software to go along with its hardware. The NetCache 5.0 software is designed to let customers send streams of video from their NetApp servers. And the new ContentDirector and ContentReporter packages, based on software acquired from NetApp's September buy of WebManage, will let customers more easily manage the profusion of data spread to servers across the Internet.
NetCache 5.0 also supports an initiative called iCAP, a standard that lets companies examine and modify information as it's sent out of the server. It allows companies, for example, to check for viruses, reformat Web pages for small handheld screens, or insert Web page advertisements.
The NetCache 6100 has room for as much as 2 terabytes of storage and can broadcast streams of audio or video at 1 gigabit per second, whereas the slimmer and rack-mountable NetCache 1105 can hold only 72GB of information and broadcast data at only about 180 mbps, NetApp said."
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