Coyote Point Systems
{{Infobox company
| name = Coyote Point Systems
| logo = Coyote Point Small.jpg
| type = Private company
| foundation = 1998
| fate = Acquired by Fortinet in 2013
| industry = Technology
| location = Millerton, New York, USA and San Jose, California, USA
| products = Equalizer application traffic management appliance
| homepage = [http://www.coyotepoint.com/ coyotepoint.com]
}}
Coyote Point Systems was a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management, also known as server load balancing. In March 2013, the company was acquired by Fortinet.{{cite web |url=http://www.networkcomputing.com/next-generation-data-center/news/networking/fortinet-acquires-adc-vendor-coyote-poin/240151850 |last=Kontzer |first=Tony |title=Fortinet Acquires ADC Vendor Coyote Point: Security vendor Fortinet announced its acquisition of application delivery controller vendor Coyote Point Systems. Fortinet hopes the acquisition will boost its enterprise presence |publisher=Network Computing.com |date=March 27, 2013 |accessdate=June 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523161719/http://www.networkcomputing.com/next-generation-data-center/news/networking/fortinet-acquires-adc-vendor-coyote-poin/240151850 |archive-date=May 23, 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=22 March 2013 |title=Fortinet to Acquire Coyote Point - |url=https://securitytoday.com/Articles/2013/03/22/Fortinet-to-Acquire-Coyote-Point.aspx |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Security Today |language=en-US}}
The company introduced hardware-based server load balancers nearly simultaneously with other large companies such as F5 in the late 1990s.{{cite web |last=Ohlhorst |first=Frank J. |url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10781 |title=Coyote Point Offers Application Balancing for Virtual Servers |publisher=Linux Journal |date=September 1, 2010 |accessdate=October 30, 2013}} The company had its headquarters in San Jose, California, and maintained engineering facilities in Millerton, New York, USA.
History
Early Coyote Point customers included Wired for the HotWired Web magazine, and the online movie database IMDb.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_July_7/ai_50147524 FindArticles.com | CBSi] Coyote Point introduced several generations of new hardware and software with increasing performance and functionality, winning industry and press awards including the 2006 Network Computing Well-Connected Award{{cite web |last=Doherty |first=Sean |url=http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-networking-management/12th-annual-well-connected-awards-networ/229613588?pgno=3 |title=12th Annual Well-Connected Awards: Network Infrastructure |publisher=Network Computing.com |date=April 24, 2006 |accessdate=June 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103183123/http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-networking-management/12th-annual-well-connected-awards-networ/229613588?pgno=3 |archive-date=November 3, 2013 |url-status=dead }} and the Info Security Global Product Excellence Award.{{cite web |title=Info Security Products Guide Product Excellence Award 2006: Excellence in Load Balancing |url=http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/products/Equalizer.html |publisher=Silicon Valley Communications |year=2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711084848/http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/products/Equalizer.html |archivedate=July 11, 2006 |accessdate=June 11, 2013}} The company's VLB technology, which permits load balancing of VMware infrastructure, was nominated for Best of Interop 2008{{cite web |title=Finalists 2008 |url=http://www.bestofinterop.com/finalists/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421042400/http://www.bestofinterop.com/finalists/ |publisher=Interop |year=2008 |archivedate=April 21, 2008 |accessdate=June 11, 2013}} and SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards.{{cite news |url=http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/590907.htm |title=Coyote Point Systems Nominated for SYS-CON's 'Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards': Coyote Point Equalizer VLB Nominated for 'Best Virtualization Platforms High Availability' |newspaper=AjaxWorld |date=July 1, 2008 |accessdate=June 11, 2013}}
Products and technology
Coyote Point developed traffic management appliances to improve application performance.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cio.com/article/2387320/mergers-acquisitions/fortinet-to-buy-coyote-point-to-merge-security-with-application-delivery.html|title=Fortinet to Buy Coyote Point to Merge Security with Application Delivery|last=Lawson|first=Stephen|date=2013-03-22|website=CIO|language=en|access-date=2018-12-17}} In 2009, the company released three upgraded products as part of its Equalizer GX family of load balancing and application acceleration appliances.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eweek.com/small-business/coyote-point-releases-app-acceleration-load-balancing-appliances-for-smbs|title=Coyote Point Releases App Acceleration/Load Balancing Appliances for SMBs|website=eWEEK|date=14 January 2009|access-date=2018-12-17}} By monitoring server and application availability and responsiveness, the Equalizer line of load-balancing appliances direct individual client requests to the server best able to handle them.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} Coyote Point's products are generally deployed at data centers, serving as front-end aggregators of an array of web or application servers. Layer 7 rules (content switching) direct requests to servers hosting specific applications or content. {{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}Application acceleration technologies, such as SSL acceleration and HTTP compression are available on Coyote's higher-end products.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}
Custom hardware, such as Layer 2 switches and SSL offload processors, and custom operating systems based on FreeBSD{{cite web |last=Kerner |first=Sean Michael |url=http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3795791 |title=Coyote Point Builds on FreeBSD to Accelerate |publisher=Internet News.com |date=January 13, 2009 |accessdate=June 11, 2013}} are used in Coyote Point's appliances with performance of over 50,000 HTTP transactions per second in network benchmarks.{{cite web |url=http://www.tolly.com/ts/2008/CoyotePoint/E350si/TollyTS208329CoyotePointE350si.pdf |title=Coyote Point Systems Inc. Equalizer E350si: Competitive Performance and Feature Evaluation versus Barracuda Networks Load Balancer 340 |publisher=The Tolly Group |date=August 2008 |accessdate=June 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216013905/http://www.tolly.com/ts/2008/CoyotePoint/E350si/TollyTS208329CoyotePointE350si.pdf |archive-date=February 16, 2012 |url-status=dead }} (pdf)
References
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External links
- [https://www.fortinet.com/ Fortinet official website]
Category:Networking hardware companies