Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!shelby!polya!Teknowledge.COM!vaxc!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Anyone using Prestoserve Keywords: Software Message-ID: <1823@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 00:35:46 GMT Sender: USENET News SystemOrganization: Sun-Spots Lines: 13 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 146, message 1 of 5 >I've received some info. on a product called Prestoserve from a >company called Legato Systems in Palo Alto. The claim to have a >VME board with bbu memory, driver and admin tools which accelerates >sun server throughput performance. Is anyone out there using this >product and if so can they please comment on the claims etc. I believe >there is a similar product from a company called Auspex or similar, There is a product from a company called Auspex, but it's not a similar product - it's an NFS file server (which includes a Sun board running 4.x, although the NFS and file system code runs on separate processor boards), not a plug-in board for existing machines. A product announcement has been sent to the USENET group "comp.newprod", and will, with any luck, show up there shortly.