Avaki Inks Worldwide Systems Integration Deal with HP; Alliance to Drive Industry-Leading Data Grid Software Solution Deeper into Commercial Market.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 Avaki Corporation, a pioneer in commercial grid software solutions, today announced that it has signed a worldwide systems integration agreement with HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ). Customers will now have available a scalable grid solution capable of solving real-world business problems. Under the terms of the agreement, HP Services will resell the recently announced AVAKI 2.5 grid software to its prospects and customers around the globe. The AVAKI grid software will be available with HP's family of high-performance AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX The 64-bit Unix operating system for HP's AlphaServers. Formerly Digital Unix when Alpha was a product family from Digital Equipment Corporation, it was renamed Tru64 Unix in 1999 by Compaq (HP acquired Compaq in 2002). and industry-standard ProLiant servers running the Linux and Windows 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. . AVAKI 2.5 is the industry's only commercial, comprehensive grid solution providing secure, wide area access to data, processing power and application resources in a single, uniform operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . AVAKI's software simplifies the enormous complexity associated with accessing data and compute resources across geographically dispersed organizations, significantly reducing administrative burdens associated with managing distributed resources. Grid software is being used across several industries, with significant initial deployments in life sciences. Grids in Life Sciences AVAKI and HP have identified key problems that life sciences research and development organizations face - the need for secure access to fresh and consistent data, a uniform environment that is easy for researchers to use and for IT professionals to administer, and a highly available computing infrastructure that delivers maximum application performance and reliability. Grids pool heterogeneous data and compute resources across an enterprise, making them accessible on-demand. Specifically within the life sciences market, data that is critical to research and discovery tends to be distributed across multiple locations or is difficult to access, time-consuming and complicated to administer, and inconsistently named - leading to data that is often out of sync. AVAKI solves these problems by automating access to wide area data and making it appear local to those who have been granted access to it. At the same time, AVAKI guarantees consistency of the data across an organization or between multiple organizations, while providing access to the most recent data available. AVAKI's grid solution enables organizations to make the most of an organization's data resources and harnesses available computing power for compute-intensive or high throughput analyses critical to research and testing. "We're pleased to work with HP on a comprehensive grid solution that meets the specific needs of customers," said Tim Yeaton, AVAKI's president. "Our unique grid software product provides HP customers with secure, wide-area access to data, applications and processing resources across domains, sites and platforms. In addition, AVAKI's grid solution can act as a master scheduler, spanning multiple, heterogeneous, third party scheduling and queuing products." The relationship with HP comes on the heels of AVAKI's introduction of the latest version of its commercial grid software, AVAKI 2.5, which incorporates significant enhancements, including advanced caching mechanisms that increase data grid  The introduction to this article is vague. To comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, it should be improved. performance. These improvements provide wide-area data access with performance comparable to local area access, and reduce the administrative burdens on end-users and systems administrators. Unlike grid toolkits, which can require substantial custom development, AVAKI 2.5 is fully functional packaged software See software package. that is quick to deploy. "AVAKI has carved out an important position in the commercial data grid software market," said Winston Prather, vice president of HP's High Performance Technical Computing Division. "At HP, we're seeing a growing demand for data grid solutions, particularly from our life sciences customers. Our new relationship with AVAKI underscores our commitment to provide our customers and prospects with an end-to-end commercial grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal solution." AVAKI's software offering also is synergistic with the HP Utility Data Center, HP's new self-healing, self-adapting programmable data center capability. This capability will enable customers using AVAKI's environment to dynamically share the IT infrastructure with other applications. About AVAKI Avaki Corporation offers the first commercial grid software solution to provide highly secure, wide-area access to processing, data and application resources in a single, uniform operating environment. The flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , AVAKI, allows enterprises 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>. the true power of grid computing and thereby accelerate time to market, increase ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). on existing computing infrastructure, and reduce the barriers associated with implementing Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . AVAKI's grid technology is helping customers such as Gene Logic, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. Bioinformatics Grid project, and Structural Bioinformatics. Backed by Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Sofinnova, AVAKI is located in Cambridge, Mass. For more information, please visit www.avaki.com. |
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