GoAhead SelfReliant Software to Support New Wind River Operating System; Service Availability Technology to Increase Availability and Functionality In VxWorks AE.Business/High Tech Editors BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 GoAhead(R) Software, the leading provider of off-the-shelf service availability software, today announced that the GoAhead SelfReliant(TM) product line will support the new VxWorks(R)AE operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. from Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a worldwide leader in embedded -- software and services. Increasing system reliability and functionality, SelfReliant 7000 will further enable developers using VxWorks(R) AE to deliver products with 99.999 percent service availability. GoAhead SelfReliant 7000 embodies a new customer-centric approach to service availability that enables infrastructure equipment manufacturers using VxWorks AE to achieve "five-nines" system uptime (less than five minutes of downtime per year) and maintain customer connections without interruption -- regardless of individual component failures. SelfReliant 7000 provides transaction integrity -- the ability for communications systems to maintain active customer connections and transactions without interruption, despite hardware or software failures in the infrastructure. "GoAhead's SelfReliant software will leverage and extend VxWorks AE benefits by enabling manufacturers to develop robust systems that meet the stringent reliability and availability demands placed on them by their customers," said Jim Airy, vice president of marketing for GoAhead Software. "We are excited to be a part of Wind River's development of this platform, helping to enable an entire generation of new self reliant devices built on their innovative technology." Striking an ideal balance between memory protection and the high performance levels associated with unprotected development platforms, Wind River's highly reliable VxWorks AE is an advanced, real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. and integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment designed with customers' reliability, availability, serviceability (system, design, hardware, software) Reliability, Availability, Serviceability - (RAS) Three key attributes of a computing system design. See reliability, availability, and serviceability. and security (RASS RASS ROSAT All-Sky Survey RASS Radio Acoustic Sounding System RASS Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale RASS Resource Allocation Selection System (US Army) RASS Relief Association of Southern Sudan ) requirements in mind. As service availability is a critical requirement for telecom and electronic service providers and manufacturers of smart devices, VxWorks AE will meet the needs of embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. demanding RASS requirements, including service-critical Internet infrastructure equipment and Internet appliances, mission-critical defense and aerospace systems, and life-critical medical products. "We are delighted to have the opportunity to partner with a leading provider of service availability software, helping us to advance the reliability features on Wind River's VxWorks AE RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ," said Dave Sheaffer, senior director of product marketing for Wind River's Platforms business unit. "The combination of GoAhead's SelfReliant 7000 with our new VxWorks AE operating system will allow us to offer our equipment manufacturers significant improvements on the serviceability (system) serviceability - The ease with which corrective maintenance or preventative maintenance can be performed on a system (e.g. by a hardware service technician). Higher serviceability improves availability and reduces service cost. Serviceability is one component of RAS. of their devices while increasing time-to-market." With deployment efforts currently underway to select companies such as Wind River, GoAhead plans a general release of SelfReliant 7000 in the fourth quarter of this year. 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 (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. 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. The product supports industry-standard, high-availability communications platforms such as CompactPCI(R), and works with a number of key 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. , including Linux 2.2, LynxOS 3.1, Solaris 8, VxWorks, VxWorks AE, WindowsNT 4.0, and Windows2000. 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 Bellevue is a rapidly growing city in King County, Washington, U.S., across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle,[1] it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. . |
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