http://www.monashreport.com/2006/12/27/appliances-barracuda-network-stream-processing/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:11:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/12/27/appliances-barracuda-network-stream-processing/#comment-4945 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Guide to my recent research on computing appliances Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:25:24 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/12/27/appliances-barracuda-network-stream-processing/#comment-4945 [...] Half or more of the computing appliance vendors I’ve looked into follow very similar hardware strategies: They use mainly standard parts; they include uncommon but off-the-shelf networking (and sometimes encryption) accelerators; and they of course optimize the mix of those parts and general hardware architecture as well. Examples I’ve posted about recently include – and I quote the forthcoming column – “DATallegro and Teradata (data warehousing), Cast Iron Systems (data integration), Barracuda Networks (security/antispam), Blue Coat Systems (networking), and Juniper (security and networking).” [...] [...] Half or more of the computing appliance vendors I’ve looked into follow very similar hardware strategies: They use mainly standard parts; they include uncommon but off-the-shelf networking (and sometimes encryption) accelerators; and they of course optimize the mix of those parts and general hardware architecture as well. Examples I’ve posted about recently include – and I quote the forthcoming column – “DATallegro and Teradata (data warehousing), Cast Iron Systems (data integration), Barracuda Networks (security/antispam), Blue Coat Systems (networking), and Juniper (security and networking).” [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2006/12/27/appliances-barracuda-network-stream-processing/#comment-4382 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Sendio — no effective response to the niche-forever challenge Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:47:58 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/12/27/appliances-barracuda-network-stream-processing/#comment-4382 [...] Sendio boasts almost 150 customer enterprises, concentrated in such security-sensitive markets such as financial services, healthcare, and legal services. (One advantage of being security-sensitive may be that your correspondents are open-minded to enduring the challenge/response hassle.) As per a glowing review in Government Computer News – which incidentally takes a swipe at Barracuda – spammers so far do not bother doing anything to defeat the system. [...] [...] Sendio boasts almost 150 customer enterprises, concentrated in such security-sensitive markets such as financial services, healthcare, and legal services. (One advantage of being security-sensitive may be that your correspondents are open-minded to enduring the challenge/response hassle.) As per a glowing review in Government Computer News – which incidentally takes a swipe at Barracuda – spammers so far do not bother doing anything to defeat the system. [...]

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