Bernhard Woebker Joins Availant's Board of Directors; International Business Leader to Drive Availant's Financial Growth Strategy, New Product Development.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000 Availant, the leading provider of availability management software that keeps business-critical computer systems available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, today announced Bernhard Woebker, has joined Availant's Board of Directors. As a member of the board, Woebker will provide invaluable financial expertise, helping Availant prepare for the tremendous growth expected over the next few years. Woebker will use his experience and guide Availant's growth strategy in the availability management marketplace. The company prepares to launch its new line of availability management products later this year. "I am impressed by Availant's growth potential and am excited to contribute to the company's corporate development as they launch their new line of availability management software this year," said Woebker. "We are pleased to welcome Bernhard Woebker to the Board," said George Linscott, 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 Availant. "We are looking forward to putting his international leadership and financial savvy to work for us in the 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. marketplace." Prior to joining Versant Europe as its first employee in 1995, Woebker held a variety of senior management positions in Europe and 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. with Nixdorf Computer AG Nixdorf Computer AG was a computer company founded by Heinz Nixdorf in 1952.[1] Headquartered in Paderborn, Germany, it became the fourth largest computer company in Europe, and a worldwide specialist in banking and point-of-sale systems. , Pyramid Technology Pyramid Technology was a computer company that produced a number of RISC-based minicomputers at the upper end of the performance range. They also became the second company to ship a multiprocessor Unix system (branded DC/OSx), in 1985, which formed the basis of their product line Corp., and NeXT Computer Inc. Woebker has held a number of senior management positions within Versant Corporation, which today is the leading object management provider for e-business, including president Versant Europe, and senior vice president world wide field operations. Woebker is a board member of Software.com and Versant Corporation, and is a technology advisor for E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., Inc. About Availant Availant is the leading provider of availability management software that keeps business-critical computer systems available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Founded in 1989, the company's customers include more than half of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the finance, telecommunications, retail, health care and transportation industries, where high-availability and continuous access to enterprise information is essential to business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . The company's products and services are available directly from Availant and through business partners and Value Added Resellers (VARs) in the United States, Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . Availant is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. with an office located in Austin, Texas. For more information, call Availant at (617) 621-2542 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.availant.com/. |
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