Warp Solutions is planning to next week announce the availability of Warp 2063 v2, an application pre-processor appliance designed to accelerate the delivery of application-, content- and transaction-based Web services across IP.
The Warp 2063 is an appliance for offloading high-volume traffic that can degrade performance in Web server environments. New features in the product include an enhanced Web interface, request-queuing capabilities, content preservation, advanced SNMP monitoring, and expanded support for operating systems and Web servers.
The company says the new features help the product speed the delivery of dynamic content such as streaming media and voice and video over IP. Warp 2063 v2 also is designed to improve the performance of enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and customer relationship management applications.
Warp says the appliance supports up to 900 transactions per second and can potentially increase the number of concurrent user sessions by up to six times. The company also reports that it can speed applications and content by up to 30 or more times.
The new request-queuing feature reuses data to address repeated requests more quickly. Warp says this feature increases the flow of traffic and eliminates bottlenecks. The content preservation feature can automatically mask back-end errors and server failures by displaying cached content until any problems are resolved, the company says. And SNMP monitoring adds local and remote access to server, processor, disk, memory and load metrics.
Warp intends to support Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. Web servers such as Apache, Microsoft IIS, iPlanet and Netscape are also supported in this new version.
Available in early December, pricing for Warp 2063 v2 starts at $80,000 per unit. The appliance is configured within a fault-tolerant 2U rack-mountable enclosure. A blade version of the Warp 2063 is also available.
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