AVCOM to Market Resilience SPARC-Based Continuous Availability Servers.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000 Leading Sun National Systems Partner to deliver high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. in a rapidly deployed, low maintenance server for today's business-critical Internet applications. Resilience Corporation, the continuous availability server company, and AVCOM AVCOM Avionics Components Obsolescence Management Technologies, one of the largest Sun National Systems Partners in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , have signed a national agreement where AVCOM will market Resilient(TM) SPARC-based Continuous Availability servers as part of their portfolio of advanced, integrated IT solutions. Increasingly, businesses today realize they must have continuous uptime for their Internet-based applications. Until now, the complexity, cost, and support requirements of today's software-based, high availability solutions have made them inaccessible to all but the largest enterprises. Resilience's appliance-like, low-cost hardware-based approach removes these barriers and makes Continuous Availability simple, affordable and low-maintenance. "Today's dedicated Internet applications such as firewalls, web servers, and e-commerce solutions absolutely demand the highest levels of hardware availability," said Brad Bishop, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AVCOM. "Joining forces with Resilience leverages the strong SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and Solaris expertise we have developed over the years and gives AVCOM a simple, economical, appliance-like approach to meeting our customer's high availability needs in this exploding area." Resilient Continuous Availability Servers are designed to provide 99.999% hardware availability. Applications that run on a Resilient server continue to run with no downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. or data loss in the event of any hardware failure, making them ideal for critical application areas such as IT security, network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. and e-business. Based on Ultra SPARC II, Resilient servers run any Solaris application without modification and can be deployed out of the box within 30 minutes. "We are delighted that AVCOM, one of the most successful and respected Sun National Systems Partners in the US, will market our Resilient Continuous Availability servers," said Denny Olmsted, Resilience President and CEO. "AVCOM is a leading player in the high availability market. The combination of their expertise and our Continuous Availability servers is a sure-fire winner." About AVCOM Technologies AVCOM Technologies is a premier eServices Infrastructure Provider, with a proven track record of helping businesses put the latest technologies to work for business success. As one of the oldest and largest providers of integrated computer systems, AVCOM has an unsurpassed reputation for technical excellence and quality service, with expertise in high availability, enterprise databases, networking, security and storage management. Founded in 1982, AVCOM has been named one of Silicon Valley's fastest growing companies every year since 1992. AVCOM became the first Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. channel partner in 1986, and one of the first Sun National Systems Partners in 2000. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout the West Coast and in Colorado, New Jersey and Virginia. For more information, visit www.avcom.com. About Resilience Corporation Resilience Corporation was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Resilience designs, manufactures, markets and supports SPARC-based fault-tolerant Continuous Availability Servers for critical network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. applications. All of the more than 12,000 Solaris applications run on Resilience products without modification. Resilience Corporation delivers the highest levels of hardware availability without the complexity, expense, and support requirements that today's software-based HA (High Availability) solutions demand. Resilient systems are used by customers in the finance, telecommunications, service provider, aerospace, news media, distribution and manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation . For more information, visit www.resilience.com. Resilience, Resilient are trademarks of Resilience Corporation. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International See SPARC. , Inc. in the United States and in other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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