ENHANCED SOFTWARE INCORPORATES COMPUTE AND DATA GRID.Avaki Corporation, Cambridge, Mass., a pioneer in global grid An open systems architecture that provides global connectivity instantaneously on warrior demand. The global grid can support both vertical and horizontal information flow to joint and multinational forces. software solutions, has launched AVAKI 2.5, the latest version of its commercial grid software. AVAKI 2.5 incorporates compute and data grid  The introduction to this article is vague. To comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, it should be improved. enhancements, including advanced caching mechanisms that increase data grid performance. These dramatic 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 data grids provide secure, wide-area access to data, giving users and applications the ability to access files and data sets easily and conveniently regardless of location, administrative domain (networking) Administrative Domain - (AD) A collection of hosts and routers, and the interconnecting network(s), managed by a single administrative authority. or platform. AVAKI data grids ensure access to the most current, authoritative copy of a given piece of data, automatically. They eliminate the need for systems administrators or end users to manage multiple copies of data or to manually transfer files via inefficient methods such as FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to , CD, or tape. Furthermore, by utilizing advanced caching mechanisms, AVAKI data grids provide wide-area data access with levels of performance approaching that of local area access. The full benefits of the data grid can be realized with no changes to applications or the way users typically access their data. "In life sciences, we face the formidable challenge of having multiple organizations in distributed locales who want to collaborate with each other in order to accelerate research efforts," said Dr. Thom Dunning, director of 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. "AVAKI's data grid simplifies this process by allowing life sciences organizations to take advantage of the ever-expanding genomic and proteomic data that is becoming available, regardless of data location." Andrew Grimshaw, founder and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of AVAKI, summarized, "AVAKI 2.5 gives its users the ability to share very large files (64 bit) between sites and organizations. This is a critical need in the Life Sciences and in engineering intensive manufacturing companies that need to share data across departments and partners. AVAKI 2.5 represents AVAKI's continued commitment to improving our industry leading technology in ways that solve real world problems." About AVAKI 2.5 AVAKI 2.5 is comprehensive grid software that provides wide area access to processing, data, 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 grids unify resources across locations and administrative domains with different hardware, 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. , and system configurations, creating an environment that is secure and easy to administer. Going beyond compute grids - which provide access to distributed and heterogeneous processing resources - AVAKI offers wide-area access to data and applications as well, streamlining data-intensive computing processes and reducing the need for ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. manual steps. Unlike grid toolkits, which require substantial custom development, AVAKI 2.5 is fully-functional packaged software that is quick to deploy and is backed by AVAKI Corporation's expert customer service. 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, AVAKI, allows enterprises to capitalize on 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. AVAKI's grid technology is helping customers such as Gene Logic, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, North Carolina Bioinformatics Grid project, and Structural Bioinformatics. Backed by Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Sofinnova, AVAKI is located in Cambridge, Mass. For more information, visit http://www.avaki.com or call 919/833-9975. |
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