Info-afs participants - On May 26, 1998, IBM announced the general availability of its solution offering for Internet Infrastructure - IBM WebSphere Performance Pack. This product brings together the most flexible and scalable content delivery infrastructure offering in the industry today, with proven technologies such as Web Traffic Express (WTE), AFS (Client and Server), and eND (eNetwork Dispatcher). The WebSphere Performance Pack is targeted at Internet Service Providers and Corporate IT accounts. IBM WebSphere Performance Pack combines the most valuable infrastructure functions sought by these target market segments: * Significant bandwidth savings and web site performance through the effective caching capabilities of Web Traffic Express (WTE) and AFS (from IBM's Transarc). * Scalable and cost effective file administration and content backup / replication through proven AFS functions. * High availability, scalability, and performance through the dynamic and generic traffic load balancing capabilities of eNetwork Dispatcher for local and remote TCP/IP applications and content. IBM WebSphere Performance Pack will be sold and marketed by IBM's Web Application Server sales team, the IBM Telecommunications and Media ISU, the Small and Medium (SMB) sales force, and the certified BesTeam Business Partners, the Transarc File Systems sales team, and the IBM Transaction Systems Pillar sales team. The suggested retail price is $7,499 for each AIX, Solaris, NT machine or SP node one or all of the component Performance Pack products are installed on. For more information visit - http://www.software.ibm.com/webservers/nagano Gail Koerner File Systems Product Marketing Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kelly Chambers Manager, AFS Customer Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]
