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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gary Wolfe or Jennifer Jester
Banyan Corporate Relations
(508) 898-1000
NEW BANYAN ADVANCED NETWORK SERVICES ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED
Working Through Resellers to Provide Customers with Professional
Consulting Services
WESTBORO, Mass., Oct. 15, 1990 -- Banyan Systems today announced
the creation of a new organization, Advanced Network Services,
which will provide network consulting services designed to help
customers get the best possible value from their investments in
VINES products and technology for mission-critical corporate-wide
applications. The consulting services, delivered through the
company's Value Added Resellers, will help facilitate VINES
implementations, increase network performance, optimize application
solutions, and reduce network operating costs. Advanced Network
Services consultants work in partnership with Banyan's resellers to
deliver network consulting services to end user customers.
According to James D. D'Arezzo, Banyan Vice President, Marketing,
"Banyan has a long-standing reputation for providing
technologically superior networking products. But technology alone
is not enough to assure that customers get the optimal benefit from
their investment. Advanced Network Services is one of the most
effective ways that Banyan -- working through its authorized
resellers -- can make this assurance to customers, who want to
build sophisticated mission-critical applications and who want to
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use VINES as the delivery vehicle for those applications. These new
services will enhance our resellers' ability to provide the
complete spectrum of support to VINES users."
Three Types of Services To Help Customers Get the Most Out of VINES
Staffed by knowledgeable Banyan engineers with extensive VINES-
related experience in software development, distributed
applications, and network management and troubleshooting, Banyan's
Advanced Network Service group provides three categories of
services: Performance and Configuration Analysis; Application
Development Consulting; and Network Management Consulting.
* Performance and Configuration Analysis
Performance and Configuration Analysis provides a complete network
tuneup and features two days of on-site consulting. A team of
consultants comprehensively analyze the customer's network
configuration and operating characteristics. The analysis includes
performance monitoring, network configuration analysis, StreetTalkTM
design and performance analysis, and a review of physical network
characteristics. The final product is a comprehensive written
report with specific observations and recommendations.
* Application Consulting
Application Consulting provides VINES expertise to customers and
software developers who are taking advantage of the rich VINES
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environment to develop powerful distributed applications. Advanced
Network Services engineers can make a significant contribution by
applying their experience to ensure that the application design is
sound and well-integrated with VINES. The net result is reduced
development cost, shortened development time, and a better
application.
* Network Management Consulting
Resellers whose customers require additional VINES expertise to
apply to network design, network expansion, application
integration, rapid deployment, StreetTalk design, standards
development, and other network projects can take advantage of this
service. Consultants from the Advanced Network Services group are
available to work with the reseller's staff and customer's network
architects and managers on a flexible basis to complement or expand
upon the reseller's own expertise.
Banyan's Advanced Network Services are priced according to the
specific requirements of each assignment. Services are presently
available in North America, with international availability planned
for a later date. For information call 800-828-2404 (Inside Mass.,
call 508-898-1000, ext. 2828.)
About Banyan Systems
Banyan is the leader in corporate-wide PC networking. Its flagship
product, VINES, is a standards-based distributed network operating
system for local or global internetworking of personal computers,
minicomputers, and mainframes. VINES is recognized for its ability
to make multivendor networks of any size easy to use and manage.
Banyan products are marketed worldwide through a network of
authorized value-added resellers (VARs) and country partners.