Availant Taps Accomplished IT Experts for Growing Technology Team.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2001 Names Chanchal Samanta new CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. ; Appoints Nick Minutillo vice president of product marketing Availant Inc., a leading provider of availability management software and services, today announced that Chanchal Samanta has joined the company as chief technology officer, responsible for driving the company's product and technology strategy. Nick Minutillo assumes a new role as vice president of product marketing, reporting to Samanta. Samanta and Minutillo will lead the continuing development of Availant Manager(TM), the company's flagship availability management product. "Our commitment to continued technological innovation requires a long range view as well as the agility to turn ideas into real solutions for today's systems management challenges," said Mark D. Gagne, chief executive officer and president of Availant. "I'm confident that Chanchal and Nick will provide the leadership and vision that will make our product strategy a success." "While the NT family of server platforms will continue to be a significant focus for Availant Manager, our product strategy calls for a significantly broader solution set for a wider choice of platforms," said Mr. Samanta. "In addition to enhancing the core technology and expanding the NT product line to include Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. , SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. and IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. , we plan to add solutions for Oracle databases, storage systems, and enterprise applications like CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. . We will also extend the platform to Unix-based 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. , in particular Solaris and Linux." Chanchal Samanta joins Availant from Veridiem, a marketing performance management company, where he was chief technology officer. Previously he held management positions with Genesys Labs, provider of call center solutions for customer relationship management, as senior vice president and general manager of the e-commerce division, and Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co. as vice president of technology solutions. Samanta's considerable expertise includes product strategy, product development, product architecture and design of high performance applications, and experience with enterprise-scale systems, including Internet applications, transaction processing, CRM and call center technologies. Nick Minutillo has been named vice president of product marketing after recently serving as Availant's acting CTO. He joined Availant in 1996 to focus on design and implementation of Web-based systems management tools. In 1999, he was appointed lead product architect for Availant Manager, which he helped engineer from concept to market. A recognized 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. expert, Minutillo has taught the Web programming language at area universities, and was a lecturer in mathematics at Smith College prior to joining Availant. 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 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. , and a network of value added resellers (VARs) in the United States, Europe and the Pacific Rim. 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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