Availant Extends Availant Manager Beyond NT with Technology Preview Releases for Unix and Linux.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2001 Cross-platform availability management software for Solaris, Red Hat Linux and 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. aimed at developers and hardware providers. Availant, Incorporated, a provider of availability management software and services, today announced the extension of its flagship availability management product, Availant Manager(TM) for Windows, to the Unix and Linux operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Technology preview releases of Availant Manager for Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. provide cross-platform availability management for automatic and predictive prevention of system and application failures in heterogeneous, distributed computing environments. "Expanding our capabilities to multiple operating systems not only significantly increases our market opportunities, it also represents an important step toward realizing Availant's vision of intelligent, end-to-end availability management for enterprise-scale systems and storage management," said Mark D. Gagne, president and chief executive officer, Availant, Incorporated. "Just as we've done with our NT products, we are working with partners in the Linux and Solaris communities to integrate Availant Manager technology with the hardware and software that power today's complex distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. ." Availant's multi-platform strategy is aimed at enterprise-scale systems management, with an emphasis on industry standard protocols and interfaces for easy integration with existing tools and platforms. In particular, Availant Manager leverages Internet protocols Refers to all the standards that keep the Internet running. The foundation protocol is TCP/IP, which provides the basic communications mechanism as well as ways to copy files (FTP) and send e-mail (SMTP). (HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. ) for platform independence, and provides a browser-based user interface for a uniform look and feel. "As we continue to drive our product roadmap, our advantage will be our ability to leverage our breadth of systems experience, depth of availability management know-how and the application of innovative development technologies to deliver products that prevent systems failure," said Chanchal Samanta, chief technology officer, Availant, Incorporated. "We will provide availability through automated intelligent management of not only specific mission-critical applications and storage, but also of a business' entire complex IT infrastructure." The Availant Manager suite of products is architected to provide cross-platform, proactive systems management that moves beyond simple monitoring and alerts to perform problem diagnosis and root cause analysis, while enabling the end-user to automate the implementation of proven repair strategies. By automating systems management best practices, the software makes it easier for IT managers to achieve higher availability of business-critical applications and extend the capabilities of the IT staff. The technology preview release licenses for Availant Manager for Solaris and Linux are available by contacting Larry Forman at (617) 374-7946 or e-mail at lforman@availant.com. General release of Availant Manager for Solaris is planned for early 2002. Availant is currently shipping Availant Manager for Windows, which is available for license and download at www.availant.com. About Availant Availant is the world leader in providing availability management software and services designed to enable continuous access to business-critical applications and systems. Founded in 1989, Availant pioneered the development of availability technology for the open systems and NT marketplaces. The company's 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. Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (IBM) HACMP High Availability Clustered Multi Processing ) technology and Availant Manager(TM) software are used by Fortune 500 companies and small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., with a regional office in Austin, Texas, Availant's products and services are available through a growing network of resellers and business partners including Compaq, 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. . Additional information is available at www.availant.com or by calling (617) 621-2542. Availant is a trademark of Availant, Incorporated. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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