The company combines hardware and software to deliver high-performance server adapter products and application acceleration middleware for faster performance.

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Solarflare provides high performance server adapters and application acceleration middleware while Arista has developed very fast switches such as the 7100 series used at CBOE.

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"The LSI PCIe-based WarpDrive card offers simple, effective, and affordable application acceleration for enterprise servers, " said Bob Farkaly, director of marketing, Storage System products for Exar.

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It uses the web application acceleration features that F5 usually deploys in front of web servers to allow faster access to those applications in a secure manner.

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And earlier this month, Hewlett Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) signed a deal with startup Riverbed Technology to license its application acceleration technology for use in its own products.

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Engineered for Performance: AMD App Acceleration drives GPU-accelerated features in Windows 8 improving graphics performance and application speed, while advanced GPU compute capabilities enable users to run multiple applications smoothly, enjoy beautifully rich and clear video playback, and revel in lightning-fast game play.

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