[comp.sys.sun] Anyone using Prestoserve

dave@mcsun.eu.net (Dave Morton) (09/19/89)

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,
or at least I remember reading about it being in development. If there's
enough interest I will summarise for the net. Many thanks to all in advance.

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guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) (09/30/89)

>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.