Novell has announced an upgrade of the Novell Internet Caching System (ICS), giving Web managers new power to accelerate their media-rich Web sites, secure site access, improve management of high-volume sites, filter Web content, and guarantee site up-time.
The new features of Novell ICS 1.3 -- which include guaranteed connection capabilities and media delivery -- simplify, secure, and accelerate companies` move into eBusiness. With Novell ICS, organisations will dramatically improve the speed and efficiency of delivering Net content to employees, business partners and customers, gaining competitive advantage in the eBusiness world.
According to Novell e-business development manager James Thomas, one needs more than a caching system that provides fast Internet content in today`s eBusiness market. "Companies demand a caching technology that manages content efficiently and offers the security and dependability needed to conduct business via the Web. Novell ICS is the only caching technology on the market that can effectively support the large demand placed on today`s new media-rich content providers."
WebMiles, a Utah-based customer loyalty company featuring unrestricted free travel rewards, uses the Novell Internet Caching System to maintain high network performance and reduce Internet bandwidth costs. "Since our customers rely on our site to shop at partner sites, access their account activity and participate in frequent promotions and contests, the Web experience we provide for them is crucial to our success," said WebMiles Chief Information Officer Brian Holman.
"The Quantex WebXL, based on the Novell Internet Caching System, has substantially increased our network performance, enabling us to provide our customers with a faster and more secure Web experience, and our partners with customer data (on an aggregate level) to gain a better understanding of consumer preferences and behavior."
Novell`s Internet Caching System 1.3 gives eBusinesses a Competitive Advantage:
Supports user authentication through standard technologies, allowing administrators to easily filter cached content by user, bandwidth or content type
Provides support for media delivery via HTTP, allowing for accelerated delivery of cached media
Improves traffic report management - ICS 1.3 can automatically "push" traffic reporting logs to any location, thus help Web hosts better manage extremely high volumes of traffic flowing through their caching solutions
Provides persistent server connection by keeping connections from the cache to the origin Web server intact
Enables Web clients to be blocked or allowed, giving Web hosts complete control over who is permitted to access cached content
The Novell Internet Caching System is a scalable, proxy caching appliance technology available for license by Intel architecture-based OEMs. Novell ICS dramatically improves the speed and efficiency of delivering Net content to employees, business partners and customers in the emerging one Net economy.
The Novell Internet Caching System can accelerate any Web site up to ten times the performance of common Web servers, host over 262 000 persistent connections, and dramatically reduce the hassle and expense of scaling traffic across multiple Web servers. Novell ICS, which can be easily installed in any Cisco, UNIX, NT or NetWare network, enables content publishers, ISPs and enterprises to deploy high performance, content-rich Web storefronts that increase buyer satisfaction, attract new customers and drive new revenue opportunities.
The Novell Internet Caching System is sold exclusively through Novell`s OEM partners. The respective OEM partners determine pricing and availability for ICS-based products. For more information regarding OEM vendors for Novell ICS, please visit http://www.novell.com/products/ics/howtobuy.html
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