Avnet Partner Solutions Teams with Lakeview Technology to Deliver High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions.TEMPE, Ariz. -- Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas, a value-added distributor of enterprise servers, storage, software and services, today announced a new relationship with Lakeview Technology, an information availability company, to provide 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. and disaster recovery solutions to 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) solution providers. Avnet Partner Solutions will offer Lakeview's MIMIX(R) information availability software for a range of platforms, including i5/OS(R), Windows(R), 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). (R) and Linux(R). MIMIX software enables solution providers to deliver comprehensive business continuity solutions. Solution providers can expand their solution portfolio and generate new revenue streams by targeting existing and prospective end-user customers interested in protecting their IT environment and preventing planned or unplanned downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. . "Business continuity solutions are increasingly seen as critical in maintaining an effective IT infrastructure," said Denny O'Connell, vice president and general manager, Avnet Partner Solutions, IBM Business Unit. "Customers are increasingly concerned about the cost of downtime in terms of lost revenue and productivity. By pairing MIMIX with IBM technology, our solution providers now have a robust set of solutions to offer their customers. These solutions provide an avenue for a business discussion that will open up new opportunities with both existing and new customers." "Lakeview's MIMIX information availability solutions offer customers effective and reliable tools to keep their mission-critical IT systems operating," said Marty Leamy, executive vice president and general manager, Lakeview Technology. "Businesses today realize the value of protecting their important data and applications in a manner that enables flexible and immediate availability. Our relationship with Avnet better enables solution providers to help their end users build resilient businesses, and become more productive while generating new revenue streams through these solutions. This includes the new MIMIX(R) Vault, our high availability and disaster recovery managed service offering." Lakeview software offered by Avnet includes: --MIMIX dr1(TM) for i5/OS that provides a straightforward, affordable availability and recovery solution that protects data and applications, offers easy-to-use management tools, and assures information synchronicity synchronicity (singˈ·kr for fast, reliable recovery. --MIMIX(R) ha1(TM) for Linux, UNIX and Windows that continuously provides replication and high availability of vital data and applications from a user's production server to a backup server A computer in a network used to store copies of files from client machines or other servers. Such servers typically have their disks set up in a RAID configuration to provide fault tolerance. See backup program, RAID, SAN and LAN free backup. . The solution monitors hardware and application software, detects failure and automatically initiates recovery. In addition, Avnet is also providing solution providers with a suite of managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality to support and complement the Lakeview offerings. Solution providers can offer these services under their own brand to their customers without the investment expense required to build managed services capabilities themselves. Avnet managed services supporting Lakeview high availability and disaster recovery solutions include hosting, monitoring and system administration; backup data storage; and secure location of client servers in Avnet's data center. "Our clients expect a simplified solution to protect their business data with use of reliable software tools," said Richard Baran, president, Snap Computer Software Systems. "Lakeview's business continuity technology helps us to expand our HA practice and offer clients a cost-effective reliable solution. Being able to offer managed services will also help our business to grow even faster." About Lakeview Technology Inc. Lakeview Technology is the information availability company, providing high availability, data protection and data management software solutions to businesses of all sizes. Lakeview's innovative technology ensures the availability of business information so customers can increase productivity, reduce costs, and satisfy service level and compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). . Easy to install, manage and use, Lakeview solutions support applications in i5/OS, Windows, UNIX and Linux operating environments 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. . For more than 15 years, companies around the world have made Lakeview Technology the one to count on for information availability. For more information, please call 630-282-8100 or visit www.lakeviewtech.com. About Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas is part of the Avnet Technology Solutions operating group of Avnet Inc. An industry-leading, value-added distributor and provider of enterprise servers, storage, software and services, Avnet Partner Solutions serves value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. , independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and Mexico. Avnet Partner Solutions provides enterprise solutions from industry-leading manufacturers, focusing on driving growth for partners and manufacturers. For more information, please visit www.aps.avnet.com. Avnet (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ) enables success from the center of the technology industry, providing cost-effective services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 300 suppliers. The company markets, distributes and adds value to a wide variety of electronic components, enterprise computer products and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. subsystems. Through its premier market position, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities that help its trading partners accelerate growth and realize cost efficiencies. For fiscal year ended, July 2, 2005, Avnet and the recently acquired Memec (closed July 5, 2005) generated combined revenue in excess of $13 billion in the past year through sales in approximately 70 countries. Please visit www.avnet.com for more information. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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