ADVISORY/AVAKI Hosts Educational Webcast on Grid Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers/Health/Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Aug. 27) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHAT: Webcast titled, "AVAKI Grid Software: A Technology Overview," presented by Glenn Klausner, Grid Specialist, Avaki Corporation. Grid technology has become one of the most hyped categories in technology today. Avaki Corporation is offering a free educational Webcast to explain the complete story on grids - their potential and practical use. AVAKI's comprehensive grid technology is not just a compute grid - which increases processing power - AVAKI offers wide area access to data and applications, and streamlines data-intensive computing processes in a single, uniform operating environment. True grids unify resources across locations and administrative domains with different hardware, operating systems, and system configurations, creating an environment that is secure and easy to administer. WHO: This Webcast is presented by Avaki Corporation, the only provider of commercial data grid software. WHEN: Tuesday August 27, 2002 2:00 p.m. EDT DURATION: One hour, including real-time Q&A. WHERE: The seminar will be hosted online. Pre-registration is required and is available at http://avakievents.webex.com. A password will be provided via e-mail to access the event. MEDIA: Members of the media are encouraged to attend. Follow-up interviews with AVAKI executives can be arranged by contacting Gillian Farquhar at 617.275.6514 or via e-mail at gillian@greenoughcom.com. About AVAKI Avaki Corporation offers the first commercial grid software solution to provide highly secure, wide-area access to processing, data and application resources in a single, uniform operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . The flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , AVAKI, allows enterprises to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the true power of grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal and thereby accelerate time to market, increase ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). on existing computing infrastructure, and reduce the barriers associated with implementing Web services. AVAKI's grid technology is helping customers such as Gene Logic, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. Bioinformatics Grid project, and Structural Bioinformatics. Backed by Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Sofinnova, AVAKI is located in Cambridge, Mass. For more information, please visit www.avaki.com. |
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