Company to Leverage High-Tech Talent Pool and University Research in Greater Boston Area
BREA, Calif., February 12, 2008 – With an ever expanding base of Fortune 500 clients, Apani, the preeminent provider of cross-platform server isolation solutions for large enterprises, today announced that it has opened an East Coast product innovation facility designed to address the needs of this burgeoning market segment.
Located in Southborough, Mass., the Apani East Coast office is centrally located in the heart of New England, a half hour from Boston with easy access to major thoroughfares.
"We are very excited about the opening of our Boston product innovation facility," stated Koichi Takazawa, president of Apani. "We recognize the importance of a bi-coastal presence since much of our business comes from members of the Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 ranks located here. Our Boston office is one more step toward providing the highest caliber solutions and solving real business issues."
With the opening of the Southborough office, Apani can fully tap into the high-tech talent pool and university research in the Boston area. Initially, the focus of the new branch office will be on advanced product development, as well as engineering services and support for East Coast customers.
"There is a great deal of expertise within the networking and security arena here,” Takazawa noted. "The addition of our new Boston facility enables us to attract more talent, align ourselves closer with key partners in Boston and establish stronger ties with our key financial customers in the Northeast Region."
Apani's new Boston office will enable the company to better respond to the needs of customers and will support growth in several key functional units, including product development, technical services, quality assurance, and global business strategy.
About Apani
Apani® is the preeminent provider of cross-platform server isolation solutions for large enterprises. Apani’s solution isolates and secures the communication between servers and endpoints without regard to operating system or physical location.
Apani EpiForce®, the company’s flagship product, is a software-based alternative to using firewalls and VLANs inside the corporate network. EpiForce enables two powerful disciplines – logical security zoning and policy-based encryption of data in motion. EpiForce is a distributed, centrally-managed solution that is transparent to users, applications and infrastructure – making it quicker to deploy and less costly to manage than hardware-centric solutions. Policy enforced by EpiForce is persistent, which enables protected resources to be relocated without compromising security.
Providing an evolutionary improvement in efficiency, flexibility, manageability and total cost of ownership, Apani technology is used by much of the Fortune 500.
Based in Southern California, Apani was founded in 2003 and is privately held. More information about the company may be found at www.apani.com .
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