Avenda Systems
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | Santa Clara, California, USA (2005) |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, CA |
| Key people | Krishna Prabhakar, Founder and CEO Michael Fine , CTO |
| Industry | Networking and security products company |
| Website | http://www.avendasys.com |
Avenda Systems is a Silicon Valley start-up , networking products company with operations in Santa Clara, California , USA and Bangalore, India. It delivers next generation, comprehensive, end-to-end trust and identity policy solutions for enterprises [1].
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[edit] Corporate history
The company was founded in 2005 by Krishna Prabhakar [2] and a strong engineering team with an excellent track record in network and security management [2]. He is also credited with founding of two successful start-ups prior to Avenda [2]. Before founding Avenda, Krishna was at Cisco Systems where he was Director of Engineering in the Security Technology Group. Krishna also worked in the Voice Technology Group and the Network Management Group at Cisco[2].
Avenda Systems is also funded by private investors, United States Department of Defense (DoD), including U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency, and Department of Homeland Security [3].
[edit] News and Events
Avenda received $5 million Series B round of funding from leading venture capital firm OVP Venture Partners [4].
[edit] Products and services
Avenda solutions are designed to interoperate with Cisco’s NAC [5], Microsoft’s NAP[6] and TCG’s TNC frameworks [7].
- eTIPS is a comprehensive, highly scalable and high-performance trust and identity policy system that uses existing enterprise network infrastructure and identity stores.
- Avenda Universal SHA for Microsoft Vista and Windows XP [8]: It enhances the coverage of NAP end point health inspection in Windows Vista and XP [9] [10].
- Linux NAP Agent : It provides Network Access Protection (NAP) technology to network client machines running the Linux operating systems [11] [12].
[edit] References
- ^ Avenda Systems - Next Generation Policy Solutions - eTIPS
- ^ a b c d http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/40673 -Krishna Prabhakar, Founder and CEO
- ^ Investors - Avenda Systems
- ^ http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080320/0377516.html Yahoo.com - Avenda Systems Secures $5 Million in Series B Funding From OVP Venture Partners
- ^ http://www.smartbrief.com/news/aaaa/industryMW-detail.jsp?id=484BF8D8-5B96-4297-B20D-50512772BED4 - Avenda Systems and Cisco Systems Sign Technology Licensing Agreement
- ^ http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/rsa/docs/avenda.doc
- ^ Avenda Systems, Inc. Company Profile | Company Information
- ^ http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/rsa/docs/avenda.doc
- ^ http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Brings-a-Piece-of-Windows-Vista-to-Linux-and-Mac-OS-X-70786.shtml softpedia.com
- ^ Avenda Systems Announces Release of NAP Agent for Linux and Universal System Health Agent | Reuters
- ^ http://marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=826640&k= -Marketwire on Avenda NAP agents
- ^ http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;276404841 Computer world on Avenda NAP
[edit] External links
- Microsoft on avenda
- DBusiness News
- Reuters
- Avenda Systems secures $5 Mn in Series B Funding-siliconindia
