Availant to Unveil Trio of New Availability Offerings at Upcoming Gartner Symposium/ITxpo.Business/Technology Editors Symposium/ITxpo 2001 CAMBRIDGE Cambridge, city, Canada Cambridge (kām`brĭj), city (1991 pop. 92,772), S Ont., Canada, on the Grand River, NW of Hamilton. It was formed in 1973 with the amalgamation of Galt, Hespeler, and Preston, all founded in the early 19th cent. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2001 Availant will introduce its latest release of Availant Manager(TM) software; its Comprehensive Availability Risk Exposure(SM) assessment service; and Storage Management seminar. Availant, Incorporated, a premier provider of availability management software and services, will unveil a range of new availability products and services at next week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2001 in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. . The company will introduce its new Comprehensive Availability Risk Exposure(SM) (CARE) assessment service; the latest release of its availability management software product--Availant Manager(TM) for Windows version 2.0; and a new Availant Education seminar entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: , "Realizing the Promise of Storage Area Networks." "The 2.0 release of Availant Manager, in parallel with the introduction of our proprietary CARE assessment service, and an education seminar on the hot topic of storage management, demonstrates the depth of our availability expertise and the breadth of our customer-focused business continuity solutions," said Mark D. Gagne, president and chief executive officer, Availant, Incorporated. Availant Manager for Windows version 2.0 is an easy-to-use availability management tool designed to enable IT professionals in small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve their availability goals. Availant Manager helps IT managers select appropriate failure prevention strategies to ensure steady-state performance of business critical applications. It focuses on common availability problems of Microsoft server applications Microsoft IIS Microsoft IIS - Internet Information Server ; Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. (Standard and Enterprise editions of V7.0 and 2000); 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. ; and Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT. The latest release of Availant Manager features: -- Network Installation capability enables installation from one location for rapid deployment of Availant Manager on multiple servers -- Consolidated Server A multiprocessor computer system consisting of several rack-mounted or modularized CPU boards that use fault tolerant components and share disk storage. SMP versions share a common memory pool. Lists feature enables systems administrators to publish rules across multiple servers at once for re-use throughout the business environment -- Consolidated Activity Log provides a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. view of all system software activities across the managed network environment Availant's CARE assessment is a customized evaluation of a company's IT environment. It is designed to identify potential points of failure that may impact a company's systems and applications availability and performance. Availant's availability experts work closely with IT managers throughout the three-step CARE assessment--Interview, Evaluation and Report--in order to provide a clear understanding of the potential causes of failure within the particular IT environment. Following completion of the CARE assessment, Availant also provides Implementation and Validation See validate. validation - The stage in the software life-cycle at the end of the development process where software is evaluated to ensure that it complies with the requirements. services based on CARE findings. "Realizing the Promise of Storage Area Networks" is a new seminar developed and hosted by Availant Education, that addresses the key issues involved in maximizing an investment in storage networks, such as improving storage utilization, reducing IT management costs and increasing application availability. Having trained over 3,500 Solution Architects on the intricacies of planning, designing and implementing storage area networks and enterprise storage solutions, Availant Education brings substantial domain expertise to this important new seminar offering. The half-day session covers a range of storage network topics, including: evaluation of storage technologies; balancing the flexibility afforded by SANs with security issues like access control; clustering and storage networks; systems area management; and applying policy, rules and automation to maximize availability and utilization. Availant will present information on its full range of availability management offerings in booth #1029 of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 9-11, in the Walt Disney World Dolphin The Walt Disney World Dolphin is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney-MGM Studios next to Disney's BoardWalk Resort area. It opened in June, 1990 and is joined to its sister hotel, the Walt Disney World Swan (also designed by Graves) Hotel. Gartner Symposium/ITxpo The eight worldwide Gartner Symposium/ITxpo events are the IT industry's largest strategic executive conferences, offering business leaders a look at "The Future of IT - Today." Symposium/ITxpo 2001 covers the IT map with an expanded list of 40 tracks and 230 sessions - with plenty of new Gartner research across the agenda. This year's agenda is designed to help dig deeper into today's most pressing IT issues - with solutions guaranteed to influence IT decisions over the next five years. For more information, call 1-800-778-1997, or visit the Gartner Web site at www.gartner.com.events. About Availant Availant, Incorporated is the world leader in providing availability management software and services designed to enable continuous access to business-critical applications, systems and storage. 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. technology and Availant Manager(TM) software are used by Fortune 500 companies and small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., with regional offices in Austin, TX, Atlanta, GA and Silicon Valley, CA, 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 and Availant Manager are trademarks and Comprehensive Availability Risk Evaluation is a service mark of Availant, Incorporated. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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