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ALVAKA NETWORKS IS CHOSEN BY NOVELL FOR
AWARD-WINNING NETWORK MONITORING SERVICE KIT
- Alvaka Networks announced a development agreement with the Internet directory leader, Novell, Inc., for Novell's Service Opportunity Kit: "Remote Network Management Vol. I". These line of business kits will assist Novell's powerful Gold and Platinum channel partners to come up to speed and become quickly profitable in this emerging strategic line of business. International Data Corporation projects the market for Network Management and Monitoring to grow to $3.75 billion market by 2001.This Service Opportunity Kit is modeled after Alvaka Networks' award-winning ManageNetSM network monitoring and management service>. ManageNetSM NetCareSM is the only service product on the market to link guaranteed uptime with a promise of free repair.
"Novell is partnering with best-of-breed businesses to design the Service Opportunity Kits - Alvaka Networks is such a business," said Bill Wall, director of worldwide channel marketing for Novell. "Alvaka has created an award winning practice in Remote Network Management. Working with Alvaka Networks, Novell is able to quickly deliver a quality Service Opportunity Kit."
The partnership between Alvaka and Novell brings the Channel a proven business practice modeled after Alvaka Networks' award-winning ManageNetSM services. Alvaka Networks provides Novell the ability to quickly deliver to the Channel a winning solution, based upon Novell products, in the short amount of time needed.
"For years clients have tolerated costly and time consuming network management chores. Finally, service alternatives are available in all markets worldwide, to all network users, not just the fortunate and select few," said Rex Frank, chief ManageNetSM architect for Alvaka Networks'. "In this one move, Alvaka Networks is helping to fulfill one of our primary corporate directives to constantly improve the way networks are managed and serviced. Novell's channel gets an opportunity at a new profit center. Network users get new unparalleled levels of service. I would say that is a Win, Win, Win!"
Delivery of these kits is expected by the beginning of November 1999. VARs who have been given previews of this kit are excited. Paul Daggett, President of Polar Systems, Inc., the first Novell® Platinum PartnerSM in Portland, Oregon, says, "This Service Opportunity Kit is a great extension of our existing remote network management capabilities. The market is competitive and our clients are demanding ever higher levels of service. Remote network management provides our clients the level of service they need on their ever more mission critical networks. Polar Systems' new line of business differentiates us from the other players in our market. Financially, our clients get a valuable service for one low monthly fee and we have the ability to manage service levels to new heights, resulting in security and satisfaction for our clients."
Steven Bowser, President of the True Profit Groups in Phoenix, Arizona and a leading financial consultant to the VAR and integrator community says, "This sounds like a great program. I constantly harp on all my clients to get more services-centric. I tell them they need to get involved in remote network management and other services that provide margin rich recurring revenue streams. I have studied the financial statements of Alvaka Networks. Their financial statements reflect some of the best service performance metrics I have seen. They are constantly at the top of the charts for productivity. This is a direct result of their focus and understanding about running an IT services organization. I am glad to see that this winning formula is coming to Novell's channel partners."
The Internet has not only changed the way products are sold, but it is also changing the way products are serviced. Alvaka Networks is leveraging this trend and is changing the way networks are managed and serviced. Already, work is under way on a version 2.0 Service Opportunity Kit that will expand upon the services, benefits and profit potential from remote network management services. Like all other products, service products need to be constantly refined and improved. By leveraging several new capabilities in forthcoming versions of Novell's ManageWise®, ZENworksTM, BorderManagerTM, and NDS® products, even better remote network management services will make current service models obsolete.
Alvaka Networks, headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, is a leading provider of network management, monitoring and integration services. Alvaka's core company purpose is to constantly improve the way networks are managed and serviced. ManageNetSM, Alvaka's flagship service product, is a bundled set of network management, monitoring and Internet access services that provides Alvaka Networks' clients unparalleled service. For more information about Alvaka and its products, visit Alvaka's Web site at www.alvaka.net.
###Novell, ManageWise and NDS are registered trademarks, and BorderManager, Novell Platinum Partner and ZENworks are trademarks or service marks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.