WIND--GoAhead SelfReliant Software to Support New Wind River Operating System
Service Availability Technology to Increase Availability and Functionality In VxWorks AE
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000--GoAhead® 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®AE operating system from Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND - news), a worldwide leader in embedded -- software and services.
Increasing system reliability and functionality, SelfReliant 7000 will further enable developers using VxWorks® 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 and integrated development environment designed with customers' reliability, availability, serviceability and security (RASS) 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 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,'' 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 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 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®, and works with a number of key operating systems, 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 was formed in 1995 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. |
