Arula Systems to Provide Secure Remote Access and Management Solutions.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 New Hewlett-Packard Spin-Off The situation that arises when a parent corporation organizes a subsidiary corporation, to which it transfers a portion of its assets in exchange for all of the subsidiary's capital stock, which is subsequently transferred to the parent corporation's shareholders. to Provide Hardware and Software Solutions Designed to Web-Enable All Devices Arula Systems, a provider of solutions for managing devices in a decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. world and a spin-off of Hewlett-Packard Co., Monday announced that it began shipping products to initial high-end customers. It also announced that the new Arula Product Suite is available to the general public. Backed by Gabriel Venture Partners and HP, Arula Systems has entered into a license relationship with HP that enables Arula to utilize and enhance HP's micro Web server technology for connecting equipment to the Internet for remote access, monitoring, control, and diagnostics. Under the agreement, Arula can negotiate further licenses to a number of HP patents related to this technology, many of which were co-invented by Chandra Venkatraman, Arula's founder. Arula's 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. , SecureConsole, is compatible with high-end HP, 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) , and 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. servers as well as networking devices from Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. . SecureConsole enables managers, service personnel and field representatives immediate and secure server console access from anywhere, anytime, via any Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Users have access regardless of the state of the server to which the SecureConsole is attached. To date, no other remote access solution offers Arula's level of availability, security, interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. , or scalability. "We have been extremely pleased with the performance of the Arula SecureConsole on both our HP and Sun Microsystems servers," stated Greg Estep, data center manager of the Chevron Information Technology Co. in San Ramon San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
"In addition to tremendous space savings, we have also improved outside vendor support by removing our physical terminals and using just one computer with a browser located in the data center. Travel time from our offices to the data center has been reduced since we can access the servers through our corporate intranet. "Perhaps the most significant result is that we can now remotely access our data center servers from any laptop after hours Adv. 1. after hours - not during regular hours; "he often worked after hours" , on weekends, or when traveling -- essentially eliminating the need to physically go to the data center," Estep concluded. SecureConsole is based on the Arula Universal Agent Platform. Arula has taken a radically new approach to providing remote device management agents. Rather than providing individual agent platforms, Arula has developed a universal agent platform that enables companies to rapidly deploy agent solutions for any device in their remote offices. The Arula Universal Agent Platform contains all the common things any agent would need such as connectivity, logic, and security. The forth coming Arula Product Suite, featuring SecureConsole, is built on the Arula Universal Agent Platform. "The network management, industrial automation and Internet hosting markets are crying out for the Arula technology," said Rick Bolander, managing director and co-founder of Gabriel Venture Partners. "The Arula Product Suite is a ubiquitous solution that provides a simple web browser interface in any complex heterogeneous systems heterogeneous system n. A chemical system that contains various distinct and mechanically separable parts or phases, such as a suspension. environment, increasing the speed of service response time, minimizing the need for onsite services calls, and reducing outages by 'webizing' any device." Bolander continued, "It is Gabriel's mission to assist entrepreneurs with this type of market opportunity to build multi-billion dollar companies." "We are transforming a number of industries by using the Web for access, management, monitoring and control of new and existing equipment," said Venkatraman, chief executive officer and president of Arula Systems, a former architect with HP Labs, and part of the original core technology design team. "The Arula Universal Agent Platform is a general-purpose computer Refers to computers that follow instructions, thus virtually all computers from micro to mainframe are general purpose. Even computers in toys, games and single-function devices follow instructions in their built-in program. platform that provides a common interface and standard for an array of discrete devices A discrete device (or discrete component) is an electronic component with just one circuit element, either passive (resistor, capacitor, inductor, diode) or active (transistor or vacuum tube), other than an integrated circuit. , enabling those devices to be rapidly and securely linked to the Internet." About Arula Systems Inc. Arula Systems Inc.(TM) (Arula) is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. founded in 1999 that provides solutions for device management in a decentralized world. These management solutions enable rapid creation of secure, remote Internet connectivity to various devices in a variety of markets. Arula, a spin-off of Hewlett-Packard Co., has secured venture financing through Gabriel Venture Partners and private investments from industry leaders. Arula is headquartered in Cupertino. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.arula.com. About Gabriel Venture Partners Gabriel Venture Partners, based in Redwood Shores, Calif. and in Tysons Corner, Va., is a hands-on venture capital firm that provides in-depth operating, technology and marketing experience to maximize the value creation from the initial funding through every stage of its portfolio companies' growth cycles. Founded in 1999, Gabriel Venture Partners has invested more than $50 million of a $100 million fund in emerging technology companies. Its portfolio includes communications, information technology and Internet companies such as AccessLine Holdings, Arula Systems Inc., GeoTouch.com, IP Wireless, iTango Software, ITSquare, JamCracker, Netscaler Inc., PlaceWare Inc., SalesHound and VARStreet. Additional information may be obtained by visiting the company's website at www.GabrielVP.com. Arula, Arula Universal Agent Platform, ConsoleManager and SecureConsoleSSL are trademarks of Arula Systems Inc. All rights reserved. |
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