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May 03, 2011

SuperLumin Networks Debuts SuperLumin Nemesis Software

SuperLumin Networks has revealed its official support of VMware as an approved platform for its SuperLumin Nemesis software appliance.

The VMware platform can support multiple frameworks, multiple cloud providers, and multiple application services all on a cloud scale platform. With that, customers can build applications with your choice of high productivity frameworks and application services.

Customers can significantly reduce the overall cost of implementation while still meeting or exceeding performance goals, by eliminating the requirement that customers dedicate physical server hardware to support SuperLumin Nemesis. While limited support will be extended to customers running VMware ESX version 3.5., SuperLumin will extend formal support for VMware vSphere environments running versions 4.x of VMware ESX and VMware ESXi. Only versions of VMware that support 64-bit guest operating systems can support Nemesis, the company has announced.

“Even without formal support from SuperLumin, many customers chose to use VMware to evaluate Nemesis,” said Steve Wilson, Senior Systems Engineer at SuperLumin. “We found that Nemesis performed very well in every case. Some customers were confident enough in their VMware implementations to move their virtualized Nemesis servers into production without our formal support. The results have been more than satisfactory”

To help integrators and customers understand the benefits and potential limitations of running Nemesis in a virtual environment, SuperLumin Networks is developing a Best Practices Guide. This documentation will be available on the SuperLumin Knowledge Center in May 2011. Virtualization has all of the benefits like Vmotion, so no more downtime is experienced in case of hardware failure. Also, it’s more environmentally friendly to boot, the company has stated.

In July 2010, the company announced eDir Single Sign On (SSO) authentication as the BorderManager ClientTrust replacement. The announcement is believed to have come at the right time when BorderManager customers are transitioning into the SuperLumin Proxy Cache. Earlier in March, SuperLumin Networks announced its agreement with Novell (News - Alert) to offer BorderManager customers with a SUSE Linux-based replacement proxy, the company stated in a press release.


Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Juliana Kenny
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