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Compaq to begin selling Intel's server appliances
By John G. Spooner
ZDNet News
January 29, 2001 4:15 PM PT
Compaq Computer called in backup units Monday to boost its developing server appliance business.
The Houston PC maker will begin reselling Intel's NetStructure line of server appliances this week, with an eye on jointly developing new server appliances, special-purpose servers designed to be cheaper or easier to use than their general-purpose brethren.
Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) will resell NetStructure server appliances for virtual private networks, XML acceleration and Secure Socket Layer encryption and decryption, alongside its own TaskSmart server appliances. Those appliances, as well as Compaq's TaskSmart C-Series and N-Series, offer Web content caching and network attached storage. Server appliances, as a class of devices, work to increase network performance by offloading their respective duties from the server.
Compaq is not the only PC maker to begin reselling Intel NetStructure products, after Intel shifted its strategy for the product line because of complaints from its largest chip customers.
Hewlett-Packard also recently announced plans to resell the server appliances and later develop its own devices based on NetStructure hardware. ...
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