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Novell Extends Internet Caching Leadership with BorderManager FastCache 3 Caching Solution Leverages NetWare 5 to Deliver 10,000 Hits per Second on a Single Server San Jose, CA, ISPCon — September 28 — Extending its leadership position in delivering Internet solutions, Novell, Inc. today announced that BorderManager FastCache 3, the next generation of its caching technology, has entered controlled beta testing. BorderManager FastCache 3, the performance foundation of the BorderManager Enterprise Edition suite, is the industry's fastest, most scalable Internet caching solution for Web-enabled businesses, content publishers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). BorderManager FastCache 3 is available as a stand-alone solution or as part of the BorderManager Enterprise Edition, Novell's complete security management suite for NDS-enabled networks. Internet standards-based and Year 2000 ready, BorderManager FastCache 3 speeds user access to popular Web information, reduces network bandwidth requirements and accelerates any Web site. This results in more productive employees, lower bandwidth expenses, and a cost effective alternative to upgrading overburdened Web servers. BorderManager FastCache 3 provides a strong performance foundation for firewalls already installed in a network environment. It offloads as much as 80% of Web traffic across an Internet connection and can be easily integrated in any NetWare, NT, UNIX or heterogenous network. "With BorderManager FastCache 3, Novell continues to leverage their strengths in their cache offering," commented Peter Christy, Principal at Collaborative Research, publishers of the "1998 Internet Caching Report". "NetWare is an ideal platform for caching, offering highly-optimized network and file processing running on top of commodity PC hardware. As caching grows in use, especially within company networks, Novell's industry-leading directory services provide an excellent means of effectively organizing and operating increasingly complex, security aware, distributed caches." EOS/SpringNet is an ISP using BorderManager FastCache technology to provide accelerated Internet access to more than 6000 customers in Illinois. "By implementing BorderManager FastCache technology to accelerate our users' access to the Internet instead of purchasing more T-1 links, we have been able to save a considerable amount of money." stated Anthony Hopp, Principle of EOS/Spring Net, Springfield, IL. "The performance benefits have been outstanding and our customers are raving about the speed of their Internet connection." "As enterprise customers continue to add Web servers and intranets to their global networks, the importance of implementing caching to manage bandwidth and strengthen security, especially within branch offices, becomes readily apparent," stated Dave Shirk, vice president of product management, Novell. "ISPs can also derive tremendous benefits by improving Quality of Service and, at the same time, significantly reduce the need and costs for further network buildout. With over 4.5 million enterprise customers using BorderManager FastCache technology for Internet caching, Novell has clearly established a leadership position in this growing Internet market space. We invite other cache vendors to publish their performance numbers and find out that they are 5 to 10 times slower than Novell."
New Features in BorderManager FastCache 3 Several new features have been added to this latest version of BorderManager FastCache in the following areas :
Increase cache hit ratio with Active Caching :
Industry Leading Proxy Cache Performance BorderManager FastCache 3 is an easily administered caching solution that includes proxy caching, hierarchical network caching and Web server acceleration services. While BorderManager FastCache v2.1 was tested at processing 4,055 hits per second, BorderManager FastCache 3 can scale to over 10,000 hits per second. Unlike other proxy caches that require expensive hardware platforms and cache farms to scale the Internet, BorderManager FastCache delivers this phenomenal performance on a single Intel Pentium II processor. BorderManager FastCache increases the responsiveness and capacity of any NT, NetWare or Unix Web server. Compared to other industry solutions, Novell's caching technologies represent a price/value performance advantage of over ten to one. Novell, Inc. also owns the speed record for single-processor Web server performance measured by the industry-standard SPECweb96 benchmark.
Momentum in the Industry Novell has previously announced a caching partnership which included Digi, IBM and Tech Data. This partnership provides an integrated solution that speeds user access to popular Web information, reduces network bandwidth requirements, and accelerates any web site. The solution integrates Digi Datafire SYNC/570 adapters with IBM's Netfinity 325 server and Novell's BorderManager FastCache v2.1.
Pricing and Availability Novell will announce pricing at the time BorderManager FastCache 3 ships. The product is currently in controlled beta and is anticipated to ship before the end of the year. For more information on BorderManager FastCache, including success stories, performance reports and Novell's Application Notes, please visit www.novell.com/bordermanager. About BorderManager Enterprise Edition 3 Previously, Novell announced it has begun controlled beta testing of BorderManager Enterprise Edition 3, the complete Internet security management suite that enables businesses to leverage the power of Novell Directory Services (NDS) on NetWare, UNIX and NT networks. This standards-based suite allows organizations of all sizes to cost-effectively deploy industry leading firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), authentication and caching services for comprehensive security protection. Taking advantage of tight integration with NDS, BorderManager Enterprise Edition is the first security management solution to deliver secure single sign-on for users accessing confidential company information from any location - the Internet, intranet or extranet.
About Novell Founded in 1983, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is the world's leading provider of network software. The company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed network, Internet/intranet and small-business markets, as well as the network computing industry's most comprehensive education and technical support programs. Information about Novell and its complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com. Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks and BorderManager, BorderManager Enterprise Edition and BorderManager FastCache are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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Nan Stillinger
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