ADIC FastStor 22 Named Year's Best New Storage Hardware Product of the Year at International Storage Conference.3 REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 1999-- Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) announced today that the company's FastStor(TM) 22 DLTtape(TM) autoloader was named Product of the Year in the storage hardware category at the Storage 2000 conference held this year at the Palais de Congres in Paris. This international conference, which focuses on all aspects of storage, archiving, backup, and data protection, is the only exhibition and conference held in Europe this year dedicated to storage and storage management topics. The FastStor 22 was chosen as best storage hardware product of the year from among all the new data storage hardware products -- disk drives, tape drives, and tape libraries -- eligible for the award by a selection jury that included representatives from the analyst, press, and end-user IT communities. Competing entrants for the prestigious award included new data storage products from Clariion, Compaq, Exabyte, Hewlett Packard, Quantum Corporation, and Tandberg Data Tandberg Data (OSE: TAD) is a company focused on data storage products, especially streamers, headquartered in Oslo, Norway. They are the only company still selling drives that use the QIC format (also known as SLR), but also produce VXA, LTO and DLT products, along with . "ADIC is pleased that yet another panel of storage experts from the broad IT community has recognized that FastStor 22 offers an important and exciting new option for organizations facing data exploding both in volume and in value," commented 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 of Sales and Marketing. "FastStor 22 has demonstrated again that high capacity and high reliability automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. storage is no longer limited to groups with large budgets." Introduced in May of this year, FastStor 22 is a new DLTtape autoloader with 50% more capacity and 25% lower cost than the next largest competitors -- a product designed to bring enterprise-class levels of backup automation and price/performance to entry-level tape storage. FastStor 22 improves information management, increases data security, and reduces administrative overhead for IT departments by providing the tape count required to support a full month or more of unattended backup. FastStor 22 is based on ADIC's FastStor platform, one of the most successful compact DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. libraries ever introduced and one lauded by the industry for its unique combination of ease of use, low cost and high reliability. Measured by actual field use, the demonstrated MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) The average time a component works without failure. It is the number of failures divided by the hours under observation. MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures of FastStor is more than 400,000 hours (equivalent to 45 years of continuous service). Earlier this year, FastStor 22 was named Best New Data Protection product by a panel of industry experts at the Comdex conference in Chicago. About ADIC With more than 45,000 automated tape libraries installed and a suite of innovative software solutions and Storage Area Networking (SAN) products, ADIC is a leading global provider in the growing market to manage and protect information for computer networks. Marketed under ADIC and ADIC/GRAU brands and the brands of 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 partners, including Dell, Exabyte and Unisys, automated tape libraries are available with DLTtape, D2, half-inch, AIT, and 4mm tape technologies, and are supported by leading backup and storage management software products for 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. , UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and mainframe operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . The Company's own storage management tools include AMASS (Archive Management And Storage System) Tape management software for Unix from Quantum Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO (www.quantum.com). Originally developed by ADIC, AMASS makes the tape library look like an infinite disk drive to the application. (R) and CentraVision(TM), software products which provide users shared access to network data. A pioneer in Storage Area Networks, ADIC's Open SAN solutions combine open-system SAN hardware and software with installation services and single-call support. Further product information is available via the Internet at www.adic.com. ADIC, FastStor, AMASS, and CentraVision are trademarks of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. DLTtape is a trademark of Quantum Corporation. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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