Availant Expands Award-Winning Education and Training Programs for IBM and EMC.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 Extended customized programs and course offerings enable partners to broaden ability to deliver quality solutions Availant, the world leader in providing software and services that help maintain the availability of business-critical applications and systems, today announced it is expanding its education and training programs for 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 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. . In response to increased customer demand, Availant is expanding its education services offering by providing 12 new curricula and creating seven new classrooms and labs, including a dedicated EMC lab. Availant is also upgrading equipment to enhance students' overall training experience and prepare them for careers in high technology. Availant's education offerings have focused primarily on IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , SP, HACMP HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (IBM) HACMP High Availability Clustered Multi Processing , AS/400 and OS/390. The extended offerings include expanded AS/400 and OS/390 classes, Net.commerce, JAVA, VA JAVA, CISCO, CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without , DB2, UDB See DB2 UDB. udb - Universal Debugger , MQ Series, ADSM (ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager) The former name of a comprehensive software system for backup, HSM and disaster recovery from IBM. It backed up data from more than 25 client and server platforms to an ADSM server running on any IBM platform, HP-UX, Solaris , Linux, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. & Windows 2000. For EMC, Availant will support their worldwide education and training program by providing course architecture, design, development, facilities and delivery to EMC's systems administrators and channel partners. Availant has consistently earned outstanding student satisfaction ratings, increased enrollment, and over 40 percent year-to-year growth. Availant is also a recipient of the IBM Golden Eagle Award. The annual award is given to the leading education provider for student satisfaction, enrollment, revenue growth, delivery capabilities and course development services. 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. The company's products and services are available directly from Availant and through business partners and Value Added Resellers (VARs) in the United States, Europe and the Pacific Rim. Availant is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an office located in Austin, Texas. For more information, call Availant at (617) 621-2542 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.availant.com/. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion