May 29, 2005

By: Dora Clarke
Website: http://www.1st-in-web-hosting.com

Media Temple Chooses Linux-based HP Servers To Replace Dell Servers

HP today announced that Media Temple, a provider of personal, reliable and highly secure Web hosting and software-application services for innovative, new-media clients, has selected HP ProLiant servers to improve the scalability, reliability and manageability of its critical Linux-based Web hosting applications. Media Temple, which previously used Linux-based servers from Dell, recently switched to density-optimized HP ProLiant DL360 and DL380 servers, running Ensim ServerXchange and WEBppliance on Red Hat Linux.

By utilizing Linux-based systems and support from HP, Media Temple will be able to avoid costly downtime and deliver the reliability and performance its customers demand.

"Our last server vendor did a good job of portraying itself as a Linux leader," said Demian Sellfors, chief technology officer and co-founder, Media Temple. "In actuality, its support for Linux was only literature-deep -- leading to problems with drivers and other aspects of the Linux kernel. HP has a solid understanding of the pressure facing Web hosting providers and knows that downtime and problems are not an option. HP ProLiant servers are not only optimized for Linux, but also deliver the performance and availability we need to successfully address these issues and manage our Web hosting business without fail, 24x7."

HPM Networks, an HP reseller in the San Francisco Bay Area, configured the HP ProLiant servers to run Media Temple's business-critical hosting management application -- Ensim ServerXchange. Ensim ServerXchange automates the deployment of Ensim's patent-protected virtual private servers and WEBppliance to enable the profitable delivery of reliable Web hosting services. Ensim WEBppliance enables Media Temple to rapidly build and manage Web hosting service plans.

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