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BalanceTM for only $395, it doubles server I/O throughput... and supercharges Microsoft®® Exchange Lotus®® Notes, Microsoft®® IIS, Oracle®®, SQL, and more Even if your Microsoft® NT server is state of the art, your users could be waiting in line. That's because server performance can then be greatly diminished by a bottleneck caused by two problems: an overcrowded I/O pipeline, and an unbalanced processor workload. Server capacity is artificially capped at 30% or less, users experience slow response times, and productivity suffers. Balance from NSI is the only solution that eliminates both underlying problems, providing a tremendous improvement in server speed and reliability. Most important, Balance supercharges your most important applications -increasing performance by as much as two to four times, and greatly enhancing application scalability! Relieve administrative Pressures PRODUCTIVITY IS HAMPERED BY A CHOKE POINT The I/O bottleneck can be the result of a single network interface card that is overwhelmed by a high volume of user traffic entering and leaving the server. Traditional responses to this condition include an expensive upgrade or segmentation of the network to increase bandwidth. Such solutions are expensive. With Balance, they're also unnecessary. THE SOLUTION BEGINS WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL DYNAMIC I/O BALANCING Balance from NSI widens the I/O pipe by allowing the server to use the combined bandwidth of multiple network interface cards in parallel to maximize their performance. This, in effect, creates a single, high-speed virtual NIC. Unlike limited, one-way load balancing utilities currently on the market, Balance is a powerful, intelligent server performance pack that automatically senses and reacts to shifts in I/O load, and it does it for both inbound data and outbound data. Balance doesn't arbitrarily allocate equal numbers of users to each NIC, because different users Increase user Productivity Become the toast of Senior Management Balance Suite software is invisible to applications because it appears as a single, high-speed virtual NIC. Because Balance continuously monitors NIC performance, it automatically recovers from NIC and cable faults. Outbound traffic takes advantages of the total bandwidth, balancing traffic across all NICs. Hub or switch Incoming connections are spread over all available NICs. REDUNDANCY TM PREVENTS NETWORK DOWNTIME With its exclusive Redundancy feature, Balance continuously monitors NIC performance. In the event of a NIC or cable failure, it reroutes traffic evenly among remaining NICs, then reroutes traffic again when the failed NIC is restored. This "self-healing" prevents the loss of a network segment and is fully automatic. DYNAMIC PROCESSOR BALANCING COMPLETES THE SOLUTION With a single NIC, and with one-way load balancing with multiple NICs, over 90% of I/O-related CPU workload can be concentrated on a single represent different volumes of data. Instead, it distributes actual traffic evenly across multiple NICs, and constantly shifts the load to accommodate changing data volumes -- even to the point of moving data from one NIC to another in mid-file. PEAK Mbps TURBO-CHARGED PERFORMANCE WITH THE NEW HP NETSERVER LXR 8000! 30 NT 4.0 Workstations with IP Protocol* 277 1 NIC Balance Balance Balance and 2 NICs and 3 NICs and 4 NICs * Tests conducted at the Hewlett Packard NT Competency Center, Cupertino, CA. All performance levels are with CPU utilization at less than 50%. For complete test data, go to www.nsisw.com processor. So even if 7of 8 processors in the system are virtually idle, the server's performance is capped. Balance from NSI restores the server's true processing capacity with a thread affinity capability we call Dynamic Processor Balancing. Just as Balance distributes I/O load evenly across multiple NICs, it distributes related CPU workload across multiple processors, too. Balance is the simple solution to Microsoft NT server bottlenecks. Now you can boost the performance and scalability of business-critical applications to include more users, improve response time and productivity, and enhance network reliability -- all for a very low cost. BALANCE: TO SEE THE PERFORMANCE EDGE, DOWNLOAD IT, NOW www.nsisw.com 888-674-9495