CIO Insight magazine has a good article by John Parkinson on putting I.T. Appliances to work.
John lists areas such as storage, search, security, email management, data analytics, and system management - where Appliances are already in place inside corporate data centers.
The availability of industry-standard components and Linux have radically altered the economics of the appliance approach. Appliances benefit from the established set of monitoring and management standards that let them behave as good citizens in the network in a way that general-purpose computing platforms and software can't.
For enterprises, who must have their data behind the firewall, Appliance is a good fit.
We welcome you to contact us to see a demo of our Social Bookmarking and Social Networking Application packaged as an Appliance, and to discuss a fit for your organization.
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