Here are some product reviews, customers and awards taken from Network Engines homepage:
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Company Overview Network Engines develops and markets server appliances, a new class of scalable Internet computer that addresses the growing needs of dot com companies, web hosting providers, Application Service Providers (ASPs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Our rack-mounted, 1U appliances offer a choice of NT or Linux and combine all the hardware and software needed to install, manage, optimize and expand your mission critical e-business and e-commerce applications.
Mission To enable e-businesses to deliver high volumes of dynamic information quickly and easily over the Web using scalable Internet appliances.
Market Overview The worldwide appliance server market will top '7.9 billion in revenues on more than 2 million units shipped by 2003, according to International Data Corporation.
Forrester Research predicts that online business trade in the U.S. will top '1.3 trillion by 2003.
Products
Network Engines Scalable Internet Appliances:
WebEngine Roadster is the industry’s first low cost, Intel-based server appliance that gives emerging and mid-sized e-businesses the ability to provide Web content easily and affordably. Roadster is also the first cluster-enabled appliance that allows companies to choose the operating system that best suits their needs, Windows NT or Linux. Send more info! WebEngine Viper is the first high performance, cluster-enabled appliance that allows large dot.coms, Internet Service Providers, Application Service Providers and enterprises to conduct high-volume e-business with either Windows NT or Linux. Send more info! AdminEngine provides all of the management capabilities an e-business needs to effectively monitor and control any appliance in a cluster through a single browser interface. Using a rules-based program, AdminEngine automatically alerts the system manager to a potential problem. The manager accesses AdminEngine’s remote management technology through a standard Web browser and corrects the problem. Send more info! CommerceEngine provides fast, reliable secure transaction (SSL) processing capabilities to e-commerce companies. While dated server technology often fails to deliver under intense Web traffic, CommerceEngine allows e-commerce companies to process between 50 and 200 SSL transactions per second reliably and securely. Send more info! Blazer is the most powerful 1U hardware platform available today. If your job is to deliver web content and pack the most performance into the least rack space, look no further than the Blazer.WebEngine Blazer sets a new standard in compute density, with up to 2 CPUs per rack unit, and trims the World Wide Wait to get your content down the critical first mile faster, cheaper, and better. Send more info!
Customers
Internet Service Providers: ISPs requiring maximum transaction processing power and high availability will rely on Network Engines’ technology to consistently deliver Web content. Application Service Providers: As demand for ASPs has grown, so has the need for Network Engines’ reliable and scalable server appliances that can ensure the integrity of each transaction. Dot.coms: Because the Internet is their medium, dot coms look to Network Engines’ appliance architecture that can ensure that their Web presence operates optimally. Internet Content Providers: Large Web hosting organizations and new audio and video streaming providers who deliver specialized content over the Web look to Network Engines’ high performance sever appliances to provide fast, uninterrupted content delivery. Large corporations: Large corporations in any industry that conduct business over the Web and/or operate their own Web sites need highly reliable Internet server appliances to handle their customers’ needs with a minimum of downtime
Company Achievements
1999 Hardware Product of the Year: Mark Smith, publisher and editorial director of Windows NT Magazine selected Network Engines WebEngine. Best of Show: Network Engines’ P6000 IP application server won at NetWorld + InterOp, October 1997. ------------------------------------------------------------
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