Advanced Technology Partners:
Intel
We rely on Intel for 90% of our workstation, database, application, and web
server components. When it comes to hardware, we look to Intel first before
any other manufacturer. Our Intel products of choice are PIII Xeon
processors, and 440GX+ series server boards.
Sun Microsystems
The Solaris operating system is the backbone of our computing platform. For
internetworking, it's reliability is unparalleled by any other operating
system. We also rely on Sun hardware for our Tier 1 resources, such as
highly available storage arrays, and Oracle databases*1.
Cisco Systems
There is no other choice for network hardware. Our sister company, Power
Hosting, uses 100% Cisco equipment for their network backbone. Our Cisco
products of choice are the 7513 router, and the 2900 series enterprise
switches.
Microsoft
A no-brainer decision for our workstation, and corporate domain server
platform.
Oracle
Currently under development, and in beta testing is a robust n-Tier Oracle
application server / database solution which will become our new, more
powerful, primary back-end database environment. Our Oracle products of
choice are Oracle 8i Database as a Tier 1 resource, and Oracle Application
Server as a Tier 2 application platform.
F5 Networks
F5's BigIP is our network load balancer product of choice. This is one of
the most genius products to come along in a while. BigIP ensures that our
websites never go down.
Zeus Technology
We use Zeus Webserver v3 for our production websites. Zeus is an amazing
product, that far out performs any freeware webserver available. Zeus'
ultra high performance allows us to fully leverage our hardware investments,
while it's unique clustering feature reduces administration time by over
200%.
*1 Oracle databases are under development.