PILT news!! AVCOM and Pilot Partner to Provide Secure Electronic
Commerce Services Worldwide
Worldwide
Partnership to Focus on Delivering Advanced Enterprise Networking Solutions
With Highest Available Security
ALAMEDA, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Pilot Network Services, Inc.
(Nasdaq: PILT), the Security Utility Service pioneer, today announced a
partnership with AVCOM, a leading systems integrator and Sun Microsystems
"Elite" reseller, to co-market Pilot secure e-business and e-commerce services
for enterprise networks. The two companies will work together for fast,
efficient deployment of advanced networks for Internet communications
protected by Pilot's security architecture based on its Heuristic Defense
Infrastructure(TM) invention.
The partnership will focus on the co-marketing of the Pilot Corporate
Partner Networking (CPN) service. Launched by Pilot in February, CPN enables
corporations to provide high-security Internet links with branch offices,
remote sites, mobile employees, and industry partners, while leveraging
existing investments in Wide Area Networks (WANs). Sun Microsystems, Inc.
provides the preferred host computer for CPN, and AVCOM brings expertise with
Sun technology and experience in systems integration to provide customers a
best-of-breed, end-to-end implementation of CPN.
"The partnership between AVCOM and Pilot brings customers the strategic
business advantages of advanced networking with the highest possible
security," said Marketta Silvera, Pilot chief executive officer and president.
"As the pioneer of the Security Utility concept, Pilot engineered security
into the network -- our expertise is an ideal match with AVCOM's extensive
experience in enterprise integration and large-scale e-commerce
implementations."
"For companies turning to advanced computing to cut costs and raise
productivity, our partnership is a path to rapid e-commerce deployment," said
Brad Bishop, chief executive officer of AVCOM. "Customers benefit from
best-of-breed solutions implemented by our Professional Services groups."
About Pilot CPN
Pilot's Corporate Partner Networking (CPN) service is a secure Internet
Virtual Private Network (iVPN) service that connects a company's frame-relay
WAN to its business partner extranets and mobile telecommuters with high
security protection provided by Pilot's Heuristic Defense Infrastructure. The
CPN service takes a new "best of both worlds" approach by creating a
WAN-to-VPN link with protection at the network level.
About AVCOM
AVCOM's eCom experience has directly enabled some of the industry's most
well known businesses to go from start-ups to legendary examples of
next-generation on-line corporations: including Amazon.com, eBay, E*TRADE,
HotMail, Excite, etc. AVCOM is proud of its role at each of these, and other,
AVCOM customers.
Founded in 1982, AVCOM is one of the industry's premier Value Added
Resellers (VARs) of tightly integrated computer systems -- delivering high-end
hardware, software, training, consulting, implementation, and support services
-- covering all areas of the Information Technology (IT) market. AVCOM has
been named one of the Silicon Valley's fastest growing companies each year
since 1992. AVCOM is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices in
Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Reno, and Philadelphia. AVCOM
can be reached at Ph: 888-88-AVCOM, or online 24x7 at www.avcom.com and
info@avcom.com.
About Pilot Network Services, Inc.
Pilot, the Security Utility Service pioneer, enables secure e-commerce for
companies of all sizes by providing a wide range of services with built-in
security to protect enterprise networks. As a Security Utility, Pilot
provides the highest possible level of protection by connecting businesses to
the Internet through its Security Centers nationwide. Pilot's Heuristic
Defense Infrastructure combines a revolutionary, distributed security
architecture with 24 x 7 monitoring by security engineers -- to continually
evolve and proactively defend companies' e-commerce interactions against new
hacker techniques. Pilot's protected services include e-commerce and
e-business services; Internet access and gateways; and extranet/VPN with
encryption, authentication, access control, virus scanning, and web filtering.
Headquartered in Alameda, Calif., Pilot can be reached at 888-40-PILOT or
online at pilot.net and info@pilot.net. |
