Availant Assembles Seasoned Business Development Talent to Drive Multi-Channel Sales; Larry Forman, Daniel Gentile and Lee Fuller Join Availant's Senior Management Team.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001 Availant, Incorporated, a leading provider of availability management software and services, today announced the addition of three new members to its senior management team. Larry Forman joins Availant as senior vice president of business development, responsible for building strategic alliances and sales channels to support the company's go-to-market strategy. In turn, Mr. Forman tapped Daniel Gentile for vice president of business development and Lee Fuller as vice president of sales and business development. "Availant is developing an emerging segment of the systems management market--intelligent availability management--which means we're facing many of the business development challenges of an early stage company, but with the benefit of having a 10-year track record in the systems management market," said Mark D. Gagne, president and chief executive officer of Availant. "Individually and collectively Larry, Dan and Lee bring valuable experience in launching new products and developing strategic alliances with larger companies, which we plan 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>. during this important phase of the company's growth." "Availant has a long-standing reputation for developing superior 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. technology for companies like 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) , Compaq, and EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. ," said Mr. Forman. "I'm looking forward to working with Dan and Lee to execute on the strategy that will position Availant's newest products, Availant Manager(TM) and its Advanced Agents, for similar market leadership in this fast-growing market segment." Larry Forman joins Availant from Clarus Corporation, where he served as chief corporate development officer, responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and global alliances. Previously he was vice president, business development, at Harbinger har·bin·ger n. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner. tr.v. har·bin·gered, har·bin·ger·ing, har·bin·gers To signal the approach of; presage. Corporation (now a subsidiary of Peregrine Corporation), where he helped build the company into a $125M multi-national organization. Forman has extensive experience in building and managing relationships with leading global companies like Microsoft, Netscape, UUNet, IBM, GE and SAP. He possesses nearly 20 years of senior management experience in sales, marketing, business development and venture capital investments. Like Forman, Daniel Gentile comes to Availant from Clarus Corporation, where he served as vice president of business development for Clarus' electronic payment settlement business, charged with building global strategic alliances. In addition, Mr. Gentile possesses extensive systems management market expertise and channel development experience through his tenure at Computer Associates, ERI Eri (ē`rī), in the Bible, son of Gad. , Inc., and Egghead Software This article is about historical United States software retailer. For other uses for the word "egghead", see Egghead (disambiguation). Egghead Software was founded in 1984 as a computer software retail company. . Lee Fuller joins Availant from Cernomics, where he was responsible for all company operations. He brings a record of growing small to mid-sized technology companies like Availant through successful sales and marketing programs. Previously, he served as director of sales at NetQuotient Inc. and Primix Solutions and managing director of Questra Corporation. About Availant Availant is the world leader in providing software and services that help maintain the availability of business-critical applications and systems. Founded in 1989, the company's customers include more than half of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the finance, telecommunications, retail, health care and transportation industries, where high-availability and continuous access to enterprise information is essential to business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . The company's products and services are available directly from Availant and through business partners including Compaq, IBM and EMC, and a network of value added resellers See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). (VARs) 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. , Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . Availant is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., with a regional office located in Austin, Texas. Additional information is available through the company's Web site at www.availant.com or by calling (617) 621-2542. Availant and Availant Manager are trademarks of Availant, Incorporated. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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