[0] Tantia Storage Management Software Solutions To Be Offered by Bus-Tech.Business and High Tech Editors BOULDER, Colo. and BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000 Tantia Technologies: New Agreement Gives Bus-Tech Greater Flexibility in Providing Enterprise-Class Solutions in High-Performance Data-Movement Applications Tantia Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of BETA Systems Software AG, and Bus-Tech, Inc., today announced an agreement whereby Bus-Tech will become a reseller of Tantia storage-management software. Previously, Bus-Tech offered Tantia High-Speed File Transfer (HFT HFT Harbor Freight Tools HFT High Function Terminal HFT Hammerfest, Norway (Airport Code) HFT Hot for Teacher (Van Halen song and tribute band) HFT Human Factors in Telecommunications ) software only with their DataBlaster II data movement system. Under the new agreement, Bus-Tech will be able to offer other Tantia products, thus expanding their offerings to high-end, enterprise customers. These products include Tantia Harbor Backup and Tantia's Storage Optimization Manager. Bus-Tech will continue to offer Tantia HFT as part of its DataBlaster II solution, which may now include Tantia's Harbor Backup and Recovery software as well. This high-performance data-movement platform is designed to move large amounts of data between mainframes and open-system servers at Gigabytes-per-minute transfer rates. "With the addition of Tantia's Backup and Recovery and Storage Optimization Manager software, we are in a position to offer more complete solutions to enterprise customers doing large file transfers or backup and recovery operations Operations conducted to search for, locate, identify, rescue, and return personnel, sensitive equipment, or items critical to national security. in ever decreasing time windows," said Bill Campbell, Vice President of Sales for Bus-Tech. "These products are a perfect complement to our DataBlaster II solution, which uses a mainframe's ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. channel to transfer data between the mainframe and open-system servers at rates of 50 Gigabytes per hour or more." An independent benchmark test of the DataBlaster II/Tantia HFT solution performed by Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. , in which they transferred data between an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) CMOS machine See Parallel Enterprise Server and Multiprise. and UNIX servers A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. , demonstrated rates as high as 50 to 55 GB per hour with one ESCON and 65 to 70 GB per hour with two ESCON. "Bus-Tech's offerings of Tantia software with their DataBlaster II platform gives enterprises a more complete solution in high-speed data-movement applications such as database load, high-volume backup and restore, and bulk data transfer," said Victor Walker, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President of Tantia Technologies. "We are pleased to be part of a solution that dramatically improves data-transfer operations between mainframes and heterogeneous environments." Bus-Tech's DataBlaster II provides a high-speed data highway (Gigabytes-per-minute) between OS/390 mainframes and open-system servers such as IBM RS/6000, HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System , Sun Solaris and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . It can be configured to support up to two mainframe ESCON or Parallel channels and four Ultra Wide SCSI A SCSI interface that transfers 16 bits in parallel rather than 8 bits. See SCSI. (hardware, standard) Wide SCSI - A variant on the SCSI-2 interface. It uses a 16-bit bus - double the width of the original SCSI-1 - and therefore cannot be connected to a SCSI-1 bus. connections simultaneously. In addition to Tantia HFT and Harbor Backup and Recovery software, which take advantage of the high-speed data-movement capabilities of DataBlaster II, Bus-Tech will also offer Tantia's Storage Optimization Manager. Tantia Harbor Backup is a high-availability solution for backing up open-system servers to OS/390 mainframes, offering high reliability and unlimited scalability. Tantia's Storage Optimization Manager (which works in conjunction with Harbor Backup) optimizes tape usage and reduces costs by consolidating disk and tape data sets onto fewer tapes. About Tantia Technologies Tantia Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of BETA Systems Software AG, provides leading-edge enterprise backup and recovery solutions that fully leverage Storage Area Network (SAN) technology. The company is comprised of enterprise SAN experts who bring mainframe technology to the Open Systems market, delivering ultra-high availability, intelligent SAN solutions. Tantia will build and market the storage solutions originally developed by HARBOR Systems, which was acquired by BETA Systems in December 1998. HARBOR Systems was one of the pioneers in the SAN market and continues its leadership role as Tantia Technologies. Its extensive product line provides completely integrated, enterprise-wide storage-management solutions for heterogeneous IT storage environments. For more information, call 1-800-531-7111 or visit the company's website at http://www.tantiatech.com. About Bus-Tech, Inc. Bus-Tech, Inc., founded in 1987 is the industry's leading provider of state-of-the-art connectivity solutions for the data center to Original Equipment Manufacturers. The company's powerful suite of adapter and platform solutions satisfy even the most rugged demands of data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a professionals for high-bandwidth, high-availability and high-performance connectivity. With more than 14,000 installed sites worldwide, Bus-Tech is a recognized leader in the data center interconnect market. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, the company is privately held with locations around the world. For more information about Bus-Tech and its products, please visit the Bus-Tech World Wide Web site at http://www.bustech.com, send email to info@bustech.com, or call 800-284-3172 or 781-272-8200. Tantia(tm), Tantia Technologies(tm), Tantia Software(tm), Tantia Storage(tm), and Tantia Systems(tm) are trademarks of Tantia Technologies, Inc. |
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