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KANREN READIES NETWORK BACKBONE SERVICES WITH ENTUITY’S EYE OF THE STORM
Network Management Suite Lays Foundation for Innovative Services Critical to Kansas Educators, Students, and ResearchersNEW YORK, NY and LONDON, UK – April 17, 2007 - Entuity™, Inc., today announced that KanREN, Inc., a membership consortium of colleges, universities, school districts, and other non-profit organizations in the state of Kansas, has selected Entuity’s Eye of the Storm® (EYE) as its network management suite. EYE will serve as a foundation to ensure a robust and reliable platform for support of educational networking, research collaboration, and delivery of instructional content and services for the consortium.
Charged with the building, operation, and maintenance of a statewide research and educational network spanning 73 Wide Area Network sites throughout Kansas, KanREN manages a complex network environment with a unique set of needs. EYE provides KanREN with the flexibility and modular architecture required to efficiently and proactively meet current and future service-delivery challenges related to network management, monitoring, measurement, and reporting.
“EYE’s network reporting and planning tools help us meet our customers’ service-level expectations and ensure we continue to meet their changing needs,” said David Yarnevich, network engineer at KanREN. “Through its comprehensive data collection, correlation and analysis, alerting, and reporting, EYE gives KanREN the intelligence we need to both efficiently and proactively identify situations before they become problems as well as resolve those that arrive unexpectedly.”
KanREN selected EYE because it provides a powerful, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective solution to their unique management challenges. Providing connectivity to the state since 1994, KanREN has established a thorough set of requirements that a management solution must meet before being rolled out on its network. Management systems must provide valid metrics that accurately measure benefits versus costs of the solution prior to and after implementation. In addition, management solutions should be armed with the intelligence to effectively manage the next-generation research technologies being deployed on KanREN’s network to create on-demand, dynamically-reconfigurable, dedicated research network resources that extend across the state, country, and globe.
“In many ways, the demands placed on networks serving the educational community exceed that of even large corporations,” said Michael Jannery, president and CEO of Entuity. “EYE will help KanREN provide the innovative and cost-effective network services needed to help fuel academic research and a new generation of solutions for today’s most complex problems. We’re committed to help KanREN create a reliably connected infrastructure for this dynamic educational and research environment.”
About KanREN
KanREN is a not-for-profit membership consortium of colleges, universities, school districts, and other non-profit organizations in the State of Kansas. It is organized to facilitate communication among the members and to provide connectivity to the Internet via a statewide TCP/IP network. KanREN operates a state-wide private backbone network and is the exclusive Internet 2 connector for the state.
Membership in KanREN is open to any college, university, library, or school district in the state of Kansas. Other non-profit organizations may join the consortium subject to the approval of the KanREN Board of Directors. Members also benefit from technological innovation, partnership and advocacy at the local, state, and federal level. For more information on KanREN, please visit www.kanren.net, send an email to info@kanren.net, or call +1.785.856.9800.
About Entuity
Entuity is a leading provider of network management and service delivery solutions at price points to match a range of business models. The Company’s line of Eye of the Storm (EYE) software automatically discovers and captures unrivalled network data and analytics, and provides integrated fault, device and flow-based performance management capabilities that help businesses reduce network downtime, lower operational and capital costs, achieve sustainability goals, commit to, deliver and prove service level commitments, and ensure network configuration compliance.
Winner of numerous industry and business awards in the last year including the Network Computing Editor’s Choice Award, EYE has been praised for its fast deployment, ease of use, and low cost of ownership. Entuity customers include enterprises, SIs, and MSPs such as ABB, Aptina, Astra Zeneca, BMC Software, CLS Services, DIRECTV, IBM Global Services, National Oilwell Varco, Phones 4U, The Royal Bank of Scotland, SASSA, Sony, Visteon, and WorldPay. For more information on Entuity, please visit www.entuity.com or call +1.508.357.6346 (North America) or +44 (0) 20 7444 4800 (Europe).
Entuity and Eye of the Storm are registered trademarks of Entuity, Ltd. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Corporate Contact: |
Agency Contact: |
| Ken Klapproth Entuity Tel: +1.508.357.6347 kenneth.klapproth@entuity.com |
Suzanne Aronowitz SHIFT Communications Tel: +1.617.779.1814 saronowitz@shiftcomm.com |
