http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/29/computing-appliances-trends/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:52:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/29/computing-appliances-trends/#comment-124889 The Clustrix story | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Wed, 12 May 2010 08:53:52 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/29/computing-appliances-trends/#comment-124889 [...] Clustrix makes Type I appliances. [...] [...] Clustrix makes Type I appliances. [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/29/computing-appliances-trends/#comment-67264 Check Point Systems UTM-1 and Crossbeam Systems – resolving the confusion | The Monash Report Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:22:29 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/29/computing-appliances-trends/#comment-67264 [...] Crossbeam C-Series — and hence also the new Check Point UTM-1 – are indeed classic Type 1 appliances. The biggest difference vs. generic Dell/HP/whatever servers is the density of Ethernet ports (4-8 [...] [...] Crossbeam C-Series — and hence also the new Check Point UTM-1 – are indeed classic Type 1 appliances. The biggest difference vs. generic Dell/HP/whatever servers is the density of Ethernet ports (4-8 [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/29/computing-appliances-trends/#comment-6277 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Ingres tries to become relevant again Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:50:09 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/29/computing-appliances-trends/#comment-6277 [...] Ingres has just announced Icebreaker, a virtual appliance combining the Ingres database and elements of rPath Linux. No decision has been made to offer Icebreaker as a physical appliance; if such is offered, it will only be Type II, with no custom hardware. As the name suggests, Ingres hopes Icebreaker will help it attract interest from new-name accounts. I don’t think this will succeed much at first, because of administrability issues. But assuming those get fixed, Ingres has some interesting ideas for the future. [...] [...] Ingres has just announced Icebreaker, a virtual appliance combining the Ingres database and elements of rPath Linux. No decision has been made to offer Icebreaker as a physical appliance; if such is offered, it will only be Type II, with no custom hardware. As the name suggests, Ingres hopes Icebreaker will help it attract interest from new-name accounts. I don’t think this will succeed much at first, because of administrability issues. But assuming those get fixed, Ingres has some interesting ideas for the future. [...]

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