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Article: NETWORK ALCHEMY BRANCHES OUT BEYOND VPNS.(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Network World
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- December 20, 1999
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SANTA CRUZ, CALIF. - Network Alchemy is conjuring up more than just failure-resistant virtual private networks (VPN).
The company's flagship Cryptocluster servers already share VPN processing among themselves. If one fails, the others pick up the slack without dropping any VPN tunnels.
Next year, Network Alchemy will remix these load-balancing and failover features - called IP Clustering - to deliver products that manage IP traffic entering high-demand server farms.
Network Alchemy says the new devices will improve server-farm performance through intelligent load balancing, while providing failover support that does not disrupt ongoing ...