In addition, Compaq's innovative client products allow Internet startup customers to stay connected to important business and technical information anytime, anywhere. Through the speedStart program, startup companies can choose a pre-defined solution to meet their unique requirements based on Compaq's ProLiant Servers featuring Intel processors, Compaq's DISA architecture and Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000 platform. Designed for groundbreaking performance and scalability, Compaq's ProLiant platforms are ideal for startups because they offer superior manageability, security and uptime. When used with Compaq Insight Manager, the platform offers simple remote management and other features startups and hosting providers want for ease of administration and high availability. For increased availability, these configurations feature Compaq's DISA architecture - a blueprint for designing environments to support highly elastic and volatile demand situations.
DISA allows load balancing so servers and storage are seamlessly added for real-time scalability.
It also reroutes traffic if any one system in a cluster has a problem. With Windows DNA 2000, customers can quickly and easily turn a business into an e-business. As part of the program, startups can also obtain trade-in credit for other proprietary brands of PCs and servers. Internet startup companies can apply for financing online. Compaq will also provide startup companies with the names of recommended venture capital firms.