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Augmentix Joins Service
Availability Forum
The Service Availability Forum announced the addition of Augmentix Corp to
the
list of industry leading communications and computing companies working
together to create and promote Service Availability open interface
specifications.
"Augmentix brings to the SA Forum its understanding of the applied
computing
market equipment and high availability solutions," said Timo Jokiaho,
president of the Service Availability Forum. "Augmentix's membership supports
the Forum's mission of developing and promoting open standards for
availability, which will help lower both time to market and the cost of
developing highly available communications applications."
The Service Availability Forum's membership continued growth further
demonstrates the communications industry's goal to create standard-based
building blocks for achieving on-demand, uninterrupted service for
multi-service communications network users. By creating open hardware platform
interface specifications, the Service Availability Forum will help facilitate
the fast delivery of ultra-dependable, differentiated, cost-effective
communications services.
"The SA Forum's hardware independent platform management standard is very
attractive to our customers who are looking for a common platform management
interface across multiple computing environments," said Chris Melson, CEO of
Augmentix.
Augmentix strives to provide the lowest cost, highly available mission
critical platforms to the applied computing markets. Augmentix products
include platform management software compliant with the Service Availability
Forum Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). The SA Forum's HPI released in
October 2002, enables Independent Software Vendors and middleware vendors to
develop service applications and availability management middleware solutions
within an open, high availability framework.
David McKinley, Augmentix CTO, said, "We have made a strategic decision to
support open standards wherever possible. The SA Forum HPI standard fills a
critical missing link for standard application management of high availability
platforms. By adopting HPI as our native platform management API, Augmentix
will also be able to support management middleware based on the SA Forum
Application Interface Specification, and other upcoming specifications."
The SA Forum HPI and SAForum Application Interface Specification (AIS) are
available to TEMs, original equipment manufacturers, independent software
vendors, and network equipment providers. The SAForum HPI and AIS can be
downloaded at www.saforum.org/specification.
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