Teneros Unveils New Category of Continuity Solution -- the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Ensures "Always-On" Mission Critical Applications at Affordable Price for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Teneros, Inc., today announced the launch of the company and beta availability of the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance(TM) (ACA ACA - Application Control Architecture ) -- a new category of continuity solution delivering 24 X 7, end-user transparent, availability of mission critical applications. The company, which began operating and developing the product in 2003, is led by industry veteran, Steve Lewis Steve Lewis may refer to:
abbr. 1. National Education Association 2. National Endowment for the Arts NEA (US) n abbr (= National Education Association) → Verband für das Erziehungswesen ), Sevin Rosen Funds Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital firm that was established in 1981 by L.J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of ArQule, CIENA, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and Vitesse. and STAR Ventures; Series B funding announced separately today. Addressing the need for zero-downtime, non-intrusive solutions which provide Always-On(TM) application continuity, the Teneros ACA delivers to the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. ) market and branch offices of larger enterprises, affordable 99.99% ("four 9s") to 99.999% ("five 9s") availability of Microsoft(TM) infrastructure applications. The first release is the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance for the Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. . "Corporate e-mail has become a mission critical application as essential as electricity or telephone service; yet, current 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. , continuity solutions are costly to purchase, complex to administer, and intrusive to the existing infrastructure," offered Teneros 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. Steve Lewis. "Mid-market companies have the same continuity needs as large corporate users -- reliable, secure application continuity -- and with the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance, they finally have that option at an affordable price point." "Our customers demand a high-level of availability to their corporate applications, and e-mail is the leading mission critical application," said Keith Costas, Director of Engineering, InfoPartners. "Together, InfoPartners and Teneros will deliver Teneros ACA so that our customers can focus on their core competencies while we keep their Microsoft infrastructure applications running continuously." Built-In Simplicity and Protection The Teneros ACA plugs into the Ethernet network between the customer's production server and the rest of the customer's network and installs in under 15 minutes. The ACA is non-intrusive, as it requires no modification of, or addition to the customer's production Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. or network environment. Because the Teneros ACA is a closed box solution with remote monitoring and software update/maintenance, there is no IT required. Teneros has designed the appliance to support Microsoft infrastructure applications to provide 24 X 7 end-user operational transparency. Additionally, Teneros' ACA uses transactional integrity validation, the company's proprietary, real-time data verification technology to prevent the proliferation of data corruption on the production Exchange Server. Availability The company is taking applications to participate in an invitation-only, pre-release program and is currently in trials with customers and select Microsoft infrastructure systems integrators. More information can be found at http://www.teneros.com. About Teneros Founded in 2003, Teneros has pioneered a new product category that assures continuity of operations The degree or state of being continuous in the conduct of functions, tasks, or duties necessary to accomplish a military action or mission in carrying out the national military strategy. for mission critical Microsoft(TM) applications fueling corporations worldwide -- the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance. Funded by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sevin Rosen Funds and STAR Ventures, the company is developing a family of extensible continuity appliances to serve the needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market and branch offices of large enterprises. Teneros is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. , with offices in Seattle, Washington and Gurgaon (Delhi), India. For more information, visit www.teneros.com or call 650-641-7400. Teneros is located at 215 Castro Street, 3rd Floor, Mountain View, CA 94041. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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