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Company
Background
Yesterday
Alexander LAN, Inc. was
founded in January 1991 by Dirk A. D. Smith. It is a
privately held New Hampshire corporation with
headquarters in the city of Nashua. In its
first year of business, Mr. Smith began planning the
creation of software for IT professionals to
automatically resolve system failures and to assist
with server, desktop, and notebook management in
general.
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NetWare
In 1994, the company released
its first software product called Dexter which
enhanced the ability to debug the cause of system
failures for Novell NetWare. In 1996 Alexander SPK
(System Protection Kit) was
released. It was the world's first automated
utility to prevent and resolve system crashes. It
supported Novell NetWare.
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Windows
In 2002
Alexander SPK for Windows was released. Supporting Windows Server 2003/XP/2000/NT, this latest technology
significantly expands the market served because, in
addition to protecting Windows Servers, it also
protects Windows PCs. In the Alexander SPK for Windows
first deployment it solved a two month long trouble
shooting problem on a W2000 server in 5 minutes.
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Linux & Windows
In 2005
Alexander SMK (System Management Kit) was
introduced for Windows and Linux. It
automatically alerts IT staff when changing
conditions threaten system stability. It also
provides both Asset Tracking and Power
Management, all from a simple browser.
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Today
Alexander LAN,
Inc.'s products are the industry's leading software
utilities to prevent, recover from, and resolve the
cause of system failures. The
products are available through
Authorized Alexander Resellers internationally.
Nettool, Inc., the
company's partner in Tokyo, handles localization and
support for the double-byte character countries of
Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea.
Tomorrow
Alexander LAN, working with its partner R&D Company
Cyber SPK, LLC,
is working towards an enterprise level solution
automating the protection of networked systems from
failures due to configuration problems, software
bugs, hardware failures, or intrusion threats. The
overall goal is to enable IT
management to not only resolve and prevent failures, but
begin to predict them as well.
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