Sun Microsystems Buys Nauticus Networks To Improve Integration Of Computers And Networks

Sun Microsystems is acquiring Nauticus Networks, a privately held company based in Framingham, Massachusetts that provide s high performance content switch, including SSL, security, load balancing and virtualisation. Sun explains that these features are "key components of Sun's volume systems

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Sun Microsystems is acquiring Nauticus Networks, a privately-held company based in Framingham, Massachusetts that provide s high-performance content-switch, including SSL, security, load-balancing and virtualisation.

Sun explains that these features are “key components of Sun’s volume systems strategy to enable massive horizontal scalability … Nauticus Networks will be instrumental in the convergence of compute and network services. This convergence will give customers better integration of their throughput compute environment and allow them to easily develop new network services.”

Sun is acquiring Nauticus in an all cash transaction, which will close in the third quarter of Sun’s 2004 fiscal year. Following completion of the acquisition, Nauticus Networks will become an integral part of Sun’s Volume Systems Products organisation under the leadership of Neil Knox, executive vice president, Volume Systems Products.

“As part of Sun’s Volume Systems Products initiatives, Nauticus Networks will be instrumental in converging compute and network services in horizontally-scaled server platforms. This convergence will give customers better integration of their network computing environment and will allow the development of new network services,” says Knox, executive vice president, Volume Systems Products, Sun Microsystems Inc.

“Combining intelligent, next generation content switching technology with Sun’s volume systems strategy helps customers attack cost and complexity and simplify system administration.”

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