Aventail Hires Brian Agosti to Extend Leading Role as Extranet Service Provider.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000 Aventail Corporation, a recognized leader in building and managing business partner networks, announced today that Brian Agosti has joined the company as vice president of engineering. Agosti will be responsible for the Aventail.Net core technology platform and managing the company's product development teams. Agosti brings over 15 years of product development and management experience, which will help further Aventail's leading role in the emerging market that the META Group has identified as "Extranet Service Providers," or "ESPs." Providers in the ESP (1) (Enhanced Service Provider) An organization that adds value to basic telephone service by offering such features as call-forwarding, call-detailing and protocol conversion. market enable corporations to quickly activate and manage online partnerships between companies and their customers, suppliers and partners. Agosti will report directly to Aventail Chief Technology Officer Chris Hopen. Aventail appointed Agosti as part of its aggressive effort to build out a world class organization in response to customer demand for managed extranet services. "Enterprises are looking to use highly engineered, scalable service providers as an important part of their infrastructure," stated Evan Kaplan, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Aventail Corporation. "We are pleased to have Brian lead our platform development team. His many years of product technology and team leadership will serve Aventail well as we build and run the business partner networks for the Global 2000." Agosti brings more than 15 years of technology experience to Aventail, having worked previously with leading companies such as Wall Data Corporation/Netmanage and Boeing. Prior to joining Aventail, Agosti was Vice President of Product Development for Wall Data/Netmanage, where he was responsible for all software development for the host-access company's Rumba A popular family of PC-to-host connectivity programs from NetManage, Inc., Cupertino, CA (www.netmanage.com). Acquired in 1999 from Wall Data Inc., the RUMBA software gives desktop PC users access to virtually any host across any network. 2000 product line. Prior to Wall Data/Netmanage, Agosti worked for Boeing, where he focused on developing hardware circuit design and embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. for Boeing's military and commercial lines of airplanes. Agosti's appointment helps Aventail deliver on its vision of B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business dial tone, which could change the way companies do business by enabling enterprises to create more productive, flexible, and interactive Internet-based partnerships. The Internet-driven economy has fundamentally altered the competitive landscape, and Aventail believes that the old model of self-contained business will quickly become obsolete. In order to survive, companies must break through barriers of geography, infrastructure, and finite resources to reach new levels of creative collaboration and productivity. About the Aventail.Net Service Aventail.Net is the first fully managed service to rapidly activate Internet-based business partner networks. It is designed for progressive enterprises that need to manage large, dynamic partner communities, require comprehensive Service Level Agreements, and on-demand deployment. The Aventail.Net service handles all aspects of a business partner network -- from the support of users and underlying infrastructure to the enforcement of policy -- so that corporations can focus on core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
About Aventail Aventail is a foremost provider of Internet-based business partner networks. The company serves more than 300 leading corporations, including half of the Fortune 10. Enterprises such as Aetna, Bear Stearns The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms in the world. , Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, 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 Xerox rely on Aventail to provide their foundation for scalable business-to-business collaboration. In addition to being a pioneer in the emerging Extranet Service Provider market, Aventail has received industry praise from Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing , Computerworld, Giga Information Group, Infoworld, International Data Corporation, Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. , and Open System Advisors. Aventail Corporation is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Seattle, Washington  This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .The reason for its protection is listed on the protection policy page. . For more information on the company and its managed service, please contact the company directly at 206/215-1111, 877-AVENTAIL, info@aventail.com, or visit Aventail's Web site at www.aventail.com. Aventail and Aventail.Net, and their associated logs, are trademarks, services marks or registered trademarks or service marks of Aventail Corporation. Other product and company names are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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