ANDATACO's New Storage Management Software Offers Centralized Access to Enterprise-Wide GigaRAID Sites.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1998--ANDATACO users can now manage, monitor and service their enterprise-wide storage networks from a single workstation with the release of the Client/Server Storage Manager (Client/S), a host-based, network-centric storage management tool for GigaRAID/HA(TM) storage arrays deployed throughout an organization. Client/S provides centralized access to all GigaRAID/HA units anywhere on the network for asset and service management, as well as viewing and modifying the configuration of storage arrays. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Amos Deacon, ANDATACO marketing product manager, the typical Client/S customer has a heavy investment in relational databases, runs midrange to high-end workgroup and departmental servers and supports Sun, HP or 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. platforms. "We are primarily targeting online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. (OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing ) environments with installed online capacity from 40GB to more than a terabyte," Deacon said. "These installations require a storage management tool that provides superior availability, multiple platform and operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. support, strong scalability and robust management features." Client/S enables users to control any GigaRAID/HA unit from any network location and offers automatic email notification of faults, online graphical indication of any fault in the network, and instructions for correcting detected faults. Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group installed Client/S at a 144GB customer location in mid-December, 1997. According to Rama Katz, system administrator, they have discovered that Client/S is a very efficient interface for viewing their GigaRAID's configuration, set-up and physical status. "The display shows system details such as serial number, block size, status position and request sense data. We can go out on the network and note the physical status and logical configuration of each and every drive without the need for command line executables," Katz explained. "We also don't have to manually download to the GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. every time if we ever reconfigure so it's easier to troubleshoot any problems. Ultimately, we could control the RAID remotely and set up a Netscape browser See Netscape. to provide summary reports of each device as well as a drive-by-drive status." ANDATACO's GigaRAID High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. Series offers extensive RAID and RAID-ready storage. Together with the company's Application-Specific Architecture(TM) the ANDATACO product line offers one of the most comprehensive, performance-oriented and flexible storage technologies available on the market. The series includes Ultra SCSI and Fibre Channel solutions, as well as advanced new data sharing, remote mirroring and disaster recovery software scheduled for release in the future. Client/S has a suggested list price of $895 and is currently available for Sun Solaris platforms. HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System support will be released later in first quarter, 1998. For more information on Client/S and GigaRAID/HA, contact ANDATACO by phone at 800-334-9191, by fax at 619-453-9294, by email at inquire@andataco.com, or at their web site www.andataco.com. The company is located at 10140 Mesa Rim Rd., San Diego, CA 92121. ANDATACO manufactures and distributes storage solutions based on its Application-Specific Architecture for Windows NT and 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). environments. The Company's open-architecture solutions include RAID and RAID-ready disk arrays; tape backup and restore products; and storage management, data sharing, remote mirroring and disvices programs. ANDATACO distributes internallyalia. 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