GoAhead Announces SelfReliant 4.2
Leading High Availability Solution Integrated with IBM, RadiSys and Performance Technologies Offers Equipment Manufacturers Application-Ready Platforms
ITU TELECOM WORLD, Hong Kong – December 4, 2006 – GoAhead® Software, the expert in building integrated middleware for highly available systems, today announced the immediate availability of SelfReliant® 4.2, its high availability (HA) and systems management software. The newest release offers pre-integration with leading hardware platforms – RadiSys Promentum™, IBM BladeCenter® T and Performance Technologies Advanced Managed Platforms™. Equipment manufacturers of telecom, defense and aerospace systems utilize GoAhead’s standards-based, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solution to reduce costs and accelerate time-to-market. Pre-integration with leading hardware platforms allows equipment manufacturers to bring differentiated products to market while meeting stringent time and budget requirements.
“While standards-based building blocks theoretically enable customers to choose best- of-breed for each component and to save money, the work to integrate components can eat up those savings,” explains Asif Naseem, GoAhead COO and CTO. “By pre-integrating with three leading platforms – IBM BladeCenter T, RadiSys Promentum and Performance Technologies Advanced Managed Platform – the burden of this integration is removed and customers get the best of both worlds: choice and components that work well together.”
Each application-ready platform includes validated, out-of-box capabilities such as platform management and comprehensive high availability and system management. Areas of focus include resource discovery and system model instantiation, shelf manager integration, alarm management, hot swap management and integration with vendor-specific systems management capabilities. All of this is accomplished using the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Hardware Platform Interface (HPI).
IBM BladeCenter T Integration
"As IBM continues to lead the blade server industry with the IBM BladeCenter family, telecommunications customers are demanding application ready platforms like the IBM BladeCenter T and the forthcoming 1.2Tbps IBM BladeCenter HT," said Bruce Anthony, Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, IBM NGN Telecommunications Servers. Telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) are seeking to differentiate themselves within shorter time-to-market windows. With this integrated carrier-grade application platform from IBM and GoAhead, TEMs can accelerate delivery of revenue producing solutions to carriers by allowing them to focus resources on the value-added application layer."
RadiSys Promentum Integration
“As the demand for ATCA grows, we are finding that customers not only want standards-based solutions, but they want a turn-key, application-ready platform," states Todd Etchieson, vice president of Communications Networking Product Management. "RadiSys is pleased to work with GoAhead to integrate RadiSys Promentum, a common managed platform for network element and dataplane applications, with GoAhead SelfReliant. This enables equipment manufacturers to take advantage of best-in-class solutions at each layer of the stack, without the burden of integration between them, significantly extending cost and time savings.”
Performance Technologies Advanced Managed Platform Integration
“Performance Technologies is pleased to team with GoAhead to provide equipment manufacturers with industry standards-based platform solutions for applications requiring high availability and high performance,” says Ed Bizari, vice president of marketing, Performance Technologies. “With this extended capability, Performance Technologies can continue to meet evolving customer requirements for increased integration, reduced costs and accelerated time-to-market at the platform level.”
SelfReliant 4.2 Availability
GoAhead SelfReliant 4.2 is immediately available. Contact Michael Nitso, Director of Worldwide Sales at (425) 453-1900 for additional product information.
About GoAhead
GoAhead® Software is the expert in building integrated middleware for telecom equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace equipment contractors requiring extremely high availability. By providing a fully integrated, application ready platform, GoAhead products and services help equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. Deployed on more than 15,000 nodes worldwide, GoAhead delivers the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. For press information, contact Lacy Williams at 425-468-5417
or lwilliams@goahead.com.
GoAhead and SelfReliant are registered trademarks of GoAhead Software, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
