Avenda Systems

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company_name = Avenda Systems
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company_type = Private
company_slogan = Next Generation Policy Solutions
foundation = Santa Clara, California, USA (2005)
location_city = Santa Clara, CA
key_people = Krishna Prabhakar, Founder and CEO
"Michael Fine" , CTO
"Joseph F Kushi" , VP of Sales and Marketing
"Santhosh Cheeniyil" ,Founder & VP of Engineering
"K Prasadrao", General Manager, India Development Center, Bangalore
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industry = Networking and security products company
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homepage = 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 [ [http://www.avendasys.com Avenda Systems - Next Generation Policy Solutions - eTIPS ] ] .

Corporate history

The company was founded in 2005 by "Krishna Prabhakar" http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/40673 -Krishna Prabhakar, Founder and CEO ] and a strong engineering team with an excellent track record in network and security management ] . He is also credited with founding two successful start-ups prior to Avenda ] . Before 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 ] .

Avenda Systems is also funded by private investors, United States Department of Defense (DoD), including U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security [ [http://www.avendasys.com/company/investors.shtml Investors - Avenda Systems ] ] .

News and Events

Avenda received $5 million Series B round of funding from leading venture capital firm OVP Venture Partners [http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080320/0377516.html Yahoo.com - Avenda Systems Secures $5 Million in Series B Funding From OVP Venture Partners] .

Products and services

Avenda solutions are designed to interoperate with Cisco’s NAC [http://www.smartbrief.com/news/aaaa/industryMW-detail.jsp?id=484BF8D8-5B96-4297-B20D-50512772BED4 - Avenda Systems and Cisco Systems Sign Technology Licensing Agreement] , Microsoft’s NAPhttp://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/rsa/docs/avenda.doc] and TCG’s TNC frameworks [ [http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/gen/company.html?gcode=91C41C79DFF24B1C8B351FD6D915049A Avenda Systems, Inc. Company Profile | Company Information ] ] .
* Avenda's eTIPS platform is the first true high-performance trust and identity policy system for all forms of user login and authentication methods. Utilizing existing enterprise network infrastructure and identity resources, its powerful software and management GUI streamline policy implementation from a centralized location.

* Avenda Universal SHA for Microsoft Vista and Windows XP : It enhances the coverage of NAP end point health inspection in Windows Vista and XP [http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Brings-a-Piece-of-Windows-Vista-to-Linux-and-Mac-OS-X-70786.shtml softpedia.com] [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS169010+28-Feb-2008+MW20080228 Avenda Systems Announces Release of NAP Agent for Linux and Universal System Health Agent | Reuters ] ] .

* Linux NAP Agent : It provides Network Access Protection (NAP) technology to network client machines running the Linux operating systems [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] .

References

External links

* [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/rsa/docs/avenda.doc Microsoft on avenda]
* [http://sanjose.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=154161&type_news=past DBusiness News]
* [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS169010+28-Feb-2008+MW20080228 Reuters]
* [http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/40673 Avenda Systems secures $5 Mn in Series B Funding-siliconindia]