BANGALORE: Sun Microsystems has made its entry into the server appliance
market by launching the next generation of the Sun Cobalt product line in India.
The Sun Cobalt product line includes, Sun Cobalt Qube 3, Sun Cobalt RaQ XTR, Sun
Cobalt RaQ 4, Sun Cobalt Cache RaQ 4 and Cobalt Velociraptor. Targeted at the
small to medium-sized organizations, workgroups, offices and educational
institutions, these products can enable organizations to establish an online
presence easily, cost effectively and reliably.
Sun Cobalt range of products will extend the reach of the Internet by setting
new standards for value integration, and ease of use. Small to medium-sized
organizations, workgroups, branch offices, and educational institutions can use
the Sun Cobalt products to serve Web pages, share files across the network,
process e-mail, serve as a firewall and improve network performance via caching.
"The Sun Cobalt range of server appliances will provide to the growing
SME segment completely new elements of value that has never been seen in India.
This would be at an extremely affordable price and doing away with the customer
having to go through the complication of choosing the hardware, software and the
right skill set to manage the server," said Sun Microsystems India director
of systems engineering Anil Valluri.
The Sun Cobalt products are designed with a new software architecture that
shields end-users from the technical complexities of setting up a server. Cobalt
integrated the application and system functions into a unified user interface,
allowing for single click administration.
The Sun Cobalt products allow businesses to maximize the benefits of various
broadband technologies. A single connection to the Internet using a choice of an
external modem, a DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) router, a cable modem, or an
ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) or leased line router can be securely
shared across an organization.
Small to medium-sized businesses and workgroups can use the Sun Cobalt
products like Qube 3 for centralized file storage for quick access to critical
business documents. The Qube 3 includes back-up and restore mechanisms for data
security and also includes RAID 1 software, which ensures the availability of
content in the event of disk failure through data redundancy over two disks. Sun
Cobalt products use the Linux operating system.