Force and GoAhead to Offer High Availability Hardware/Software Solutions; Force-GoAhead Partnership Will Provide Integrated CompactPCI Solutions for Communications OEMs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2000 Force Computers, a Solectron company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SLR (1) (Scalable Linear Recording) A line of magnetic tape drives from Tandberg Data that evolved from the QIC Data Cartridge format. See QIC. (2) (Single Lens Reflex) A camera that uses the same lens for viewing and shooting. ) and a leader in embedded computing, and GoAhead(R) Software, the leading provider of service availability software for Internet infrastructure, today announced a partnership to offer integration of GoAhead's cross-platform service availability software on selected Force High Availability CompactPCI(R) platforms. To enable telecom and data comm developers to reduce time-to-market and customize highly reliable systems, Force and GoAhead will offer integrated CompactPCI hardware/software solutions. Integrating GoAhead SelfReliant(TM) 7000 software with Force's high-availability offerings gives designers access to mission-critical solutions for environments with stringent uptime needs. "Force and GoAhead are teaming up to offer OEMs bundled hardware and software solutions from a single contact," said Jens Wiegand, Force director, advanced technology. "Integrating our hardware with GoAhead SelfReliant 7000 provides OEMs an off-the-shelf service availability solution across many processors and operating systems for flexible, customizable systems." Strategic Alliance Enhances System Uptime and Reliability GoAhead SelfReliant(TM) 7000 software is a key enabler in significantly increasing system uptime and reliability and allowing manufacturers to provide 99.999 percent ("five-nines") availability. As soon as a service interruption occurs, the software automatically transfers operation to a standby component to prevent system downtime. The software is based upon a full range of fault detection and management capabilities and enables hardware and software upgrades during system operation. "With this alliance, GoAhead and Force can now offer OEMs the ability to introduce next generation, mission-critical communications infrastructure equipment far faster and more easily than previously possible," said Michael O'Brien, GoAhead 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. . "The integrated Force/GoAhead solution allows manufacturers to meet the accelerating demand for configurable, highly reliable communications platforms." Force's High Availability Solutions Force Computers offers a complete range of High Availability products to meet customers' specific application needs. From Pentium(R) to PowerPC(TM) to SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (R) processor-based architectures and Windows NT(R) to VxWorks(R) to Solaris(R) operating systems, Force offers the broadest range of embedded solutions for High Availability applications. "High Availability doesn't end with hardware; that's why Force partners with key software vendors, such as GoAhead, to help provide High Availability on a hardware and a software level," said Wiegand. "The results are scalable hardware and software solutions that offer developers the tools to recover from failures in distributed application environments." About GoAhead SelfReliant 7000 SelfReliant 7000 is a comprehensive management software solution for network infrastructure. It consists of a set of high-performance, integrated availability functions that monitor and manage all hardware, OS, and application resources across all nodes of a system. These functions capture data from system resources in real time, dynamically reconfigure the system as required to maintain service availability, and provide such services as fault management, availability management, and access and administration. About Force Computers Force Computers (www.forcecomputers.com) was founded in 1981 and is a leading designer and worldwide supplier of standard and custom systems and board-level computer platforms and services for the embedded market. The processor-independent company helps its customers develop embedded applications based on Alpha, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Pentium(R), PowerPC(TM), PowerQUICC(TM), SPARC(R), StrongARM, and 68K(TM) technologies, for embedded 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), Linux(TM), Windows NT(R) and real-time applications. Force supports VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. , CompactPCI(R), PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , PCI/ISA, and PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. bus architectures, as well as custom form factors. An ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certified company, Force Computers practices Total Quality Management principles in all phases of the company's global operations. The company, along with its parent company, Solectron Corporation, is the 1997 winner of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality for Manufacturing. Force's corporate headquarters and Asia Pacific headquarters is located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Force's European headquarters is located in Munich, Germany. About GoAhead Software, Inc. GoAhead Software (http://www.goahead.com) is the leading provider of service availability software for Internet infrastructure. The GoAhead SelfReliant product line manages communications devices and servers internally and collectively to provide on-demand, uninterrupted service for Internet users. GoAhead off-the-shelf solutions accelerate time-to-market for equipment manufacturers and reduce equipment and support costs. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. was formed in 1995 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Note to Editors: All brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion