Partnership activity remains strong and includes a recent collaboration with IBM to support that company's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

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The Java-2 based application server could handle as many as one billion hits per day when only Java-basedbrowsers were accessing the server.

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The MobileSpan Gateway is a central server application that acts as a transparent browser and document proxy on the corporate network.

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This mean the PaaS provider will auto-magically add server instances as needed to support application processing, database processing, and storage.

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This not only improves application performance but also reduces server CPU utilization by as much as 30 percent, which potentially reduces the number of servers needed.

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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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Mobile Server works by taking in application data from servers and transforming it into formats such as the Wireless Markup Language or compact HTML for presentation on wireless devices.

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As a result, all application data had to be stored in a database server so that the application could retrieve it from any server in the farm.

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The NetDynamics 5 application server will be available on the Solaris operating environment and Windows NT platform by theend of this month, as will the PAC for COM technology.

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