“American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) and Cobalt Networks,
Inc. (Nasdaq: COBT) partnered today to deliver the benefits of
unsurpassed power protection and management to Cobalt customers.
Cobalt is recommending APC’s rack-mount Smart-UPS(R)
uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), MasterSwitch(R) Plus power
distribution units (PDU), and Web/SNMP Management Card to enhance
the availability of Cobalt RaQ server appliances. Internet and
application service providers, small-to-mid-sized businesses, and
educational organizations will benefit from Cobalt’s open source
architecture and APC’s power protection and management
technologies.”
” ‘APC’s reliability and scalability, as well as its
comprehensive support for Linux users, enables Cobalt customers to
immediately benefit from APC’s power protection and management
technologies,’ said Mark Orr, vice president and co-founder,
Cobalt Networks, Inc. ‘Both Cobalt and APC are providing service
providers with innovative solutions to remain competitive in a
fierce market.’ “
“The Cobalt RaQ server appliances deliver a full suite of
Internet services with remote administration capabilities packaged
in a single rack unit height, an industry standard enclosure ideal
for dedicated Web hosting or co-location. Cobalt RaQ is
pre-configured with the Linux operating system and sendmail, at a
fraction of the cost of traditional Unix and Windows NT
servers.”