A product that adds content distribution and Web acceleration to increase the appeal of Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server to enterprises was launched by BT spin-off Venation today.

V-WEB, which is backed by a £7 million investment from Softbank and BT's corporate incubator Brightstar, is Venation's first major product since it was set up as a private company in February 2001.

A year ago Venation abandoned development of a combined hardware software appliance to "supercharge" network performance in favour of a software only approach.

At the launch of V-WEB at London's BT Tower today, Venation said it changed its strategy in response to user preference for using general-purpose hardware for content distribution and acceleration.

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