ADIC Scalar i2000 Wins Top Award from Storage Magazine; Intelligent Enterprise Library Chosen ``Best Automated Tape Technology''.REDMOND Redmond, city (1990 pop. 35,800), King co., W Wash., a suburb of Seattle, on Lake Sammamish; inc. 1912. Its economy centers around computer software (Microsoft Corp. , Wash. -- Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), leading supplier of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for the open systems market, announced today that the company's 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) i2000 enterprise tape library was selected by IT end users as "Best 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. Tape Technology" at Storage Magazine's 2004 Storage Awards. The award was ADIC(R)'s seventh top international award for the Scalar i2000 since its introduction in Spring 2003. Other winners for the 2004 Storage Awards included Computer Associates, 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. , and Legato (Legato Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.legato.com) A leading provider of storage management and high-availability software founded in 1988 and acquired by EMC Corporation in 2003. Legato software, including Celestra data management (data mining, data migration, etc. . "This award is further confirmation that the end-user community values ADIC's commitment to solving our customers' enterprise data protection problems by building more intelligence and better management into our storage solutions," said Scott Roza, ADIC Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "The ADIC iPlatform(TM) architecture is bringing higher performance and greater fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. to enterprise storage, and it is helping IT departments manage their growing volumes of data more easily." Storage, the UK's leading IT storage magazine, presents its annual awards to showcase the most innovative storage providers and storage technologies in sixteen categories, voted on by IT end users from across Europe. Voters chose the Scalar i2000 out of a wide range of systems as the year's best automated tape library offering. The ADIC Scalar i2000 intelligent tape library eliminates external library control servers and enhances library functions to enhance overall data protection and save users time and money over the life of their backup system Noun 1. backup system - a computer system for making backups ADP system, ADPS, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system - a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage . It is the first library to incorporate ADIC's intelligent iPlatform(TM) architecture, integrating and simplifying key backup management functions while reducing the need for external applications, equipment, and management activities. 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-to-tape data protection 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 and OEMs, including Cray (Cray, Inc., Seattle, WA, www.cray.com) A supercomputer manufacturer founded in 1972 as Cray Research, Inc., by Seymour Cray, a leading designer of large-scale computers at Control Data. In 1976, it shipped its first computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory. , 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, 2003, F. Yale, April 2004. ADIC and Scalar are registered trademarks and Intelligent Storage and iPlatform are trademarks 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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