ADIC Begins Shipments of New Midrange Library Platform; Intelligent Library Combines Scalability, Performance and Management for Midrange Environments.REDMOND, Wash. -- Advanced Digital Information Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADIC), the leader in Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for the open system market, announced that yesterday, November 16, it began shipping the first units of its new, Scalar scalar, quantity or number possessing only sign and magnitude, e.g., the real numbers (see number), in contrast to vectors and tensors; scalars obey the rules of elementary algebra. Many physical quantities have scalar values, e.g. (R) i500-platform midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually library to customers. Announced publicly on November 1, 2005, the Scalar i500 platform is the first in the industry to offer growing midrange environments the combination of flexible scalability and integrated intelligence needed to improve the effectiveness of backup. The new Scalar i500 platform is designed with configurations that range from one drive and 36 tapes up to 18 drives and 404 tapes. Systems scale easily with user-installable expansion modules and offer users non-disruptive capacity-on-demand growth options. "We are pleased to announce that ADIC is now shipping the industry's first intelligent midrange library platform," said Bill Britts Bill Britt is one of the most successful Independent Business Owners (IBOs) in the Amway/Quixtar business. In 2002, together with his wife Peggy Britt, qualified for the corporations highest award; Founders Crown Ambassador. , ADIC Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing. "We know that providing midrange storage environments with more effective data protection options is important both for our branded customers and for our existing OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and reseller partners." The Scalar i500 introduces several industry firsts for midrange libraries, all designed to make backup more reliable and easier to manage: --The Scalar i500 is the first midrange library to use ADIC's iPlatform(TM) architecture and iLayer(TM) management approach. These features give the library advanced integrated management functions while eliminating the need for external library control servers or software. --The Scalar i500 is the first midrange library to combine flexible, easy-to-install, modular scalability with the simplicity and reliability of a single, continuous positive-drive robotics robotics, science and technology of general purpose, programmable machine systems. Contrary to the popular fiction image of robots as ambulatory machines of human appearance capable of performing almost any task, most robotic systems are anchored to fixed positions system. This unique combination allows the library to meet the needs of users from smaller workgroups through midrange data centers. --The Scalar i500 is also the first midrange library to offer integrated support for the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S SMI-S Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SNIA) ) standard. SMI-S support allows the library to be discovered and managed directly by third-party Storage See online storage. Resource Management tools, including EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. ControlCenter. For more information, please see the related announcement, "ADIC Introduces Intelligent Midrange Library Platform," (November 1, 2005), or visit www.adic.com/products. Contact your ADIC representative for pricing and availability of specific options and configurations. About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (NASDAQ:ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC is the world's largest supplier of automated tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks.(1) The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances, and disk-based backup and restore solutions provide IT managers innovative tools for storing, managing, and protecting their most valuable digital assets in a variety of disk and tape environments. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers, OEMs and partnerships, including Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, 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) , and Sun. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. (1) Market Share: Gartner Dataquest, Tape Automation Systems Market Shares, 2004, F. Yale, August 2005. ADIC and Scalar are registered trademarks and Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks mentioned in this document should be considered the property of their respective owners. |
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