The Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 is the next generation of Sun Cobalt's server appliance product family. The Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 server appliance integrates the hardware, software, database and development tools needed to deploy applications extremely quickly without any prior server experience. All of these integrated functions translate into an extremely simple system to deploy, use, and manage, all for a total cost of ownership well below conventional servers.

What is the purpose of the RaQ 550?

The Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 server appliance is ideal for vertical markets such as retail and education that are seeking to appliantize their business solutions at the edge of the network, in addition to small to medium size businesses who are bringing their web hosting infrastructure in-house. Whether used for shared, dedicated or co-location services, the Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 server appliance offers a true plug and play web hosting platform for Internet Service Providers. Tens of thousands of Sun Cobalt RaQ server appliances are now used by thousands of service providers worldwide. Over one million web sites are hosted on Sun Cobalt RaQ server appliances. Furthermore, with an enhanced modular software architecture and a full suite of development tools, the Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 server appliance offers the perfect environment for the developer community to customize and rapidly deploy their applications.

Key Integrated Applications:

• Webserver
• Email Server
• FTP server
• Web Publishing
• Dynamic Content ASP Hosting

Key Benefits:

This integrated easy-to-use Web server appliance with support for virtual domains, software RAID support, email services, Active Server Pages (ASP) and PHP support packed into a low profile (1U) design.