Aventail Selected as Finalist in First Annual SI Impact Awards.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1999-- Aventail ExtraNet Center Chosen for "Best Security Solution" Aventail Corporation, the leading provider of Extranet Management and Security (EMS) solutions, announced today that their award-winning product, Aventail ExtraNet Center, has been chosen as a finalist for the "Best Security Solution" in IDG's Solution Integrator magazine's inaugural SI Impact Awards program. The program was designed to recognize and promote excellence among solutions integrators and their vendor partners. Winners will be determined via online voting at http://www.siimpactawards.com. Voting is open to the IT community until June 25, 1999. "Our entrants went to great pains to point out specific benefits to their customers, providing in some cases, concrete 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). numbers and strong customer testimonials," said John Russell, vice president and editor-in-chief of Solutions Integrator. "I have been involved with other award programs during my career but the caliber of these entries and the enthusiasm they show for demonstrating best practices surpasses anything I have seen before," Russell added. The SI Impact Awards Nominations were reviewed by an expert panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
"We were honored to have so many highly respected names on our judging panel from companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Gates Arrow, Deloitte & Touche, Pinacor and others. They all put forth a tremendous effort to thoroughly review and score the entries," said Dave Brambert, executive editor. Winners will be announced on August 5th at the first annual SI Impact Awards gala in San Diego, sponsored by: 3Com, Hewlett- Packard, Merisel, Palm Pilot, PSINet and Xircom. The awards gala coincides with IDC's Solutions Integrator Forum, a two-day event for executives from integration companies, value-added resellers, independent software vendors, and consulting firms who want actionable information about how to maximize revenue from the services side of their business. For more information on the forum, visit http://www.idc.com/events/sif or call Liz Gagliardi at 508/935-4002. A Comprehensive Extranet Management and Security Solution Aventail ExtraNet Center is a client/server software solution that includes integrated encryption services and uses the popular IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force standards SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. and SOCKS v5. Aventail ExtraNet Center has the ability to seamlessly integrate into any existing infrastructure, making it less costly to install and easier to implement and support. Aventail ExtraNet Center works with any IP-based application, including legacy host, mainframe, Java, CORBA-based, custom corporate, and client/server applications from vendors such as SAP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SAP), BAAN (Nasdaq:BAANF), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ). Aventail ExtraNet Center can also traverse any firewall, such as Check Point Software Ltd.'s (Nasdaq: CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) Firewall-1/VPN-1, AXENT Technologies' (Nasdaq:AXNT) Raptor Firewall, and IBM's (NYSE:IBM) eNetwork Firewall. The latest version of Aventail ExtraNet Center includes expanded support for PKI standards. This enhances Aventail's current support of various authentication methods including RADIUS, CHAP, Windows NT Domain, NDS, Security Dynamics' (Nasdaq:SDTI SDTI Serial Data Transport Interface SDTI Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. SDTI San Diego Trolley Inc. SDTI Serial Digital Transport Protocol ) SecurID, Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE:HWP) Authorization Server, and x.509 certificates from VeriSign (Nasdaq:VRSN VRSN Verisign, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) VRSN Version Number (NEC) ), Netscape (Nasdaq:NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ), GTE (Nasdaq:GTE), and Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ). Aventail ExtraNet Center also includes support for various LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. directories, such as Netscape (NYSE:AOL) Directory Server, IBM's SecureWay Directory, and Lotus Domino. Aventail's LDAP implementation complements its existing support for NDS and Bindery, RADIUS, Windows NT Domain, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). Passwrd Files, and Security Dynamics' ACE/Server. About Aventail Corporation Founded in 1996, Aventail has quickly emerged as the leading provider of EMS solutions for the Global 2000. Aventail's solutions allow organizations to securely extend their enterprise resources to strategic partners, suppliers, customers, consultants and other key individuals over public IP networks. Leading corporations are using Aventail's solutions to help them increase their competitive advantage, raise profits, and leverage investments in existing and future enterprise systems. Aventail's solutions are currently deployed at companies such as Aetna, Bear Stearns, Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, IKON, Marriott, and Xerox. With a strong reputation for providing highly secure and easy-to-manage software solutions, Aventail has received numerous industry awards from publications and industry analyst firms such as Giga Information Group, InfoWorld, Network Computing, LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Times, BYTE Magazine, Software Digest, and Computer Reseller News. Aventail Corporation is privately held and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For more information on the company or to download a trial version of Aventail ExtraNet Center, please visit www.aventail.com, or contact the company directly at 206/215-1111, 877-AVENTAIL, or info@aventail.com. Information on Aventail can also be obtained through Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), Infoseek (Nasdaq:SEEK), Lycos (Nasdaq:LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), and Excite (Nasdaq:XCIT). About Solutions Integrator Solutions Integrator reaches 90,000 enterprise integrators whose primary business is providing complex IT solutions to middle market companies and divisions of Fortune 500 companies. The magazine covers complex technology integration issues including technology assessment and implementation, IT buying practices and plans, business strategies, vendor technology roadmaps and vertical industry opportunities. In addition to Solutions Integrator, IDG currently publishes 24 channel publications in 21 countries, serves enterprise integrators through events such as IDC's Solutions Integrator Forum and provides channel-focused research services through its global research arm International Data Corp. (IDC). Solutions Integrator's web site can be found at www.solutionsintegrator.com. About IDG: Headquartered in Boston, International Data Group (IDG) informs more people worldwide about information technology than any other company in the world. With annual revenues of $2.35 billion, IDG is the leading global provider of IT media, research, conferences and expositions. IDG publishes more than 290 computer newspapers and magazines and 700 book titles in 75 countries, led by the Computerworld/InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, PC World, Channel World, and ...For Dummies global product lines. IDG offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net (http://www.idg.net), which comprises more than 240 targeted Web sites in 55 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168 computer-related expositions in 35 countries, and research arm International Data Corporation (IDC) provides computer industry research and analysis through 49 offices in 45 countries worldwide. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com. |
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