Aaxion Introduces LookOutPlus Enhanced Proactive Reliability Management Service.Business/Technology Editors Internet Commerce Expo San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. 2000 MARLBORO Marlboro or Marlborough (märl`bərō), city (1990 pop. 31,813), Middlesex co., E Mass.; settled on the site of a Native American village 1657, inc. as a city 1890. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2000 New, more robust data-server application now provides an experienced-based "what-to-do" and "how-to" solution-value to Aaxion's LookOut "Days-in-Advance" notification software tool. Aaxion Software, the number one choice for proactive fault management, announces the introduction of LookOutPlus(TM), enhanced proactive, reliability management services for the IT infrastructure. Aaxion develops, markets and supports a suite of software tools and services designed to help system and application administrators deliver HA-High-Availability to eCommerce business-critical systems and applications. "LookOutPlus takes LookOut to its next, most obvious, product value-add...a data-rich, case-based set of days-in-advance solutions for LookOut system failure notifications" said Ray Drueke, Aaxion's 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. and founder. Commenting further on the LookOutPlus promise, Paul Ellingwood, Aaxion's Vice President, Marketing & Sales remarked, "LookOutPlus delivers on the more comprehensive vision we have for the whole fault-management model and is the result of our desire to push further into the new frontier New Frontier President John F. Kennedy’s legislative program, encompassing such areas as civil rights, the economy, and foreign relations. [Am. Hist.: WB, K:212] See : Aid, Governmental of fault management. Even though LookOut is a truly remarkable and powerful stand-alone predictive tool, it's not enough to just forewarn fore·warn tr.v. fore·warned, fore·warn·ing, fore·warns To warn in advance. forewarn Verb to warn beforehand Verb 1. a failure. High-availability demands being put on system administrators necessitate fault management solutions that include full-fix recommendations." Aaxion's basic LookOut product (V2.0) is a revolutionary, intuitive software Application programs that have a friendly interface and work like users would expect. Menu functions are available in a logical order that one finds natural. The most common functions are presented in one menu or are located at the top of the menu list rather than being buried in rigid tool that "watches" and classifies fault and error events reported by the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , noting the frequency of each occurrence. LookOut V2.0 identifies potential hardware unreliability from a stream of intermittent hardware faults recorded in the system event log. Utilizing unique fault detection and pattern recognition technologies, LookOut V2.0 sends notification when, and only if, the trended pattern of observed faults match those known to precede failure. Along with all the functional benefits of LookOut V2.0, a "smart-eyes" clairvoyant hardware monitoring agent, LookOutPlus adds Aaxion's LookOutAssistant, a data-server enhancement, which is the working "Plus" part of the service. Effectively, LookOutAssistant, a case-based reasoning An AI problem solving technique that catalogs experience into "cases" and matches the current problem to the experience. Such systems are easier to maintain than rule-based expert systems, because changes require adding new cases without the complexity of adding new rules. engine, reads the experience database and provides specific corrective action A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or recommendations to LookOut's alerts. These recommended solutions come from a database of shared customer system performance experience accessed through a password protected web-based user interface. The web-based user interface is the key portal for the service allowing customers to view both the evidence behind these recommendations and their own history of faults and notifications. Aaxion will offer round-the-clock customer help-desk technical support and documentation access behind LookOutPlus. Initially, Aaxion plans to offer the new LookOutPlus service to a select customer base through its new "Innovator's Program." Aaxion's "Innovator's Program" is for those customers who understand and agree with the benefits of a cooperative approach in sharing experience toward solving problems quickly and efficiently. The ideal customer candidates will be innovative companies who Aaxion calls "early-adopters" that see the benefits of improved, expeditious ex·pe·di·tious adj. Acting or done with speed and efficiency. See Synonyms at fast1. ex IT reliability and improved product design opportunities for their operating environments 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. and vendor applications. Aaxion and LookOutPlus promise "early-adopters" early access to many proven new resolutions. Aaxion is dedicated to keeping the eCommerce infrastructure up and running and LookOut V2.0 was developed to deliver greater web-business reliability and to meet the continued growth demands of the Internet. LookOutPlus is the next generation leap forward for this technology. Aaxion Software, founded in 1999, is a privately-held, USA based corporation, serving enterprise web service, eBusiness and web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. customers; contracts multiple, licensed resellers and markets its products through several worldwide distributor partnerships. For more information on Proactive Fault management visit www.aaxion.com. Aaxion, Aaxion Software, Aaxion LookOut and LookOut Assistant, are trademarks of Aaxion Software Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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