FUJITSU SIEMENS COMPUTERS: Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Novell announce deal to accelerate e-business infrastructure performance; Fujitsu Siemens to deliver cache appliances based on Novell Internet Caching System technology
FEB 1, 2000, M2 Communications - LONDON and Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Bad
Homburg, Germany -- Novell Inc., the leading provider of Net infrastructure
software, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT company, today
announced a partnership to significantly enhance Net performance and speed Web
content delivery. Under terms of the agreement, Fujitsu Siemens Computers will
license Novell Internet Caching System technology for use in hardware appliances
dedicated to accelerating Net performance for enterprise businesses, service
providers and content publishers.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers will begin offering caching appliances based on the
Novell Internet Caching System and the Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy server line in
the first calendar quarter of 2000.
"The caching agreement between Novell and Fujitsu Siemens Computers is extremely
beneficial for European enterprises, content publishers and ISPs retooling their
infrastructures to reduce bandwidth costs and speed content delivery to take
advantage of new e-business revenue opportunities," said Ron Heinz, senior vice
president, worldwide sales, Novell, Inc. "Joining the leading caching platform
technology with the leading European IT vendor will strengthen customer loyalty,
improve employee productivity, and maximize Net revenue potential."
"With the explosion of companies deploying increasingly complex Web sites,
implementing caching is necessary as a performance foundation for the network
infrastructure," said Dr. Joseph Reger, vice president strategic marketing at
Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "Placing caching appliances at every Web server and
major router segment will allow more customers to use the Internet and visit Web
sites, resulting in more eyeballs and more revenue opportunities."
Caching accelerates the performance of e-business Web servers, speeds
information access and lowers network telecommunications costs. The Internet
Research Group, publishers of the 1999 Internet Caching Report estimates that
the European caching market should grow to over US$540 million by 2003.
"Today's announcement points to Novell as providing the caching engine of choice
for the industry," said Elis Nemes, vice president, EMEA, Novell. "We applaud
Fujitsu Siemens Computers for joining Novell in this fast growing Internet
market and look forward to expanding our Net services partnership with them. As
e-business continues to grow, companies who invest now in caching appliances as
an Internet performance platform will be well-positioned to take advantage of
future Net services such as multimedia streaming, content filtering and
advertising injection."
Availability
The Fujitsu Siemens Computers caching appliance based on the Intel based
Primergy server line will be available for in the first calendar quarter of
2000. A beta version of the Fujitsu Siemens Computers caching appliance is being
demonstrated today at the Product & Trend Show of Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
Please visit fujitsu-siemens.de for
more information.
Novell Internet Caching System
The Novell Internet Caching System technology dramatically improves the speed
and efficiency of delivering Internet content to employees, business partners
and customers. Delivering unmatched platform scalability, extensibility and
price/performance, Novell Internet Caching System technology can be quickly and
easily implemented in less than 10 minutes within any environment (Unix*,
Cisco*, NetWare or NT). In fact, the Novell Internet Caching System OEM
appliance is the only solution that delivers the ability and most importantly,
affordability, to scale the entire network - from the branch office to the ISP.
Leading industry vendors, including Akamai, Alteon, Compaq, Dell, Edgix,
Foundry, Intel, Log-On Data, Mirror Image, N2H2, Pionex, Quantex, SkyCache and
others have endorsed the Novell Internet Caching System as the premier caching
solution for ISPs, content publishers and enterprise customers. Please see
www.novell.com/products/nics for detailed partner support. |
