ANDATACO To Offer Highground Systems Storage Resource Manager; ANDATACO Continues to Offer Customers and OEMs Best of Breed Storage Solutions.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1999--ANDATACO (OTC OTCSee: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :ANDA ANDA abbr. abbreviated new drug application ), a global leader in SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. and RAID storage solutions, has taken the lead among storage vendors by offering HighGround Systems' Storage Resource Manager, the industry's most comprehensive automated storage monitoring and reporting solution 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. , with ANDATACO's award-winning GigaRAID product family. Storage Resource Manager's wide range of automated reports, alerts, and planning features, combined with ANDATACO's GigaRAID product family, will enable IT departments to manage storage more efficiently, minimize user productivity losses attributable to network storage failures and bottlenecks, remotely control distributed storage Storing data in multiple computers or in computers that are geographically dispersed. This was an early term for storage that evolved into SANs and storage virtualization. See SAN and storage virtualization. , and ensure greater return on storage investments. The two companies will also combine ANDATACO's Java-based Web Storage Manager, an application for configuration, proactive monitoring and control of the storage environment, with Storage Resource Manager, providing a seamless storage management tool for customers utilizing the NT platform. "Each GigaRAID product is designed application-specific to serve targeted vertical industries. ANDATACO has further customized our solutions by offering leading edge technology from the best the industry has to offer," said W. David Sykes, President, ANDATACO. "Customers and OEMs trust ANDATACO to provide the highest performing products available on the market. We are pleased to include HighGround's Storage Resource Manager product family in our storage offerings." "ANDATACO is a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, and now ANDATACO can offer its customers the industry's most comprehensive solution for automated monitoring of GigaRAID and other Windows NT and Microsoft BackOffice See BackOffice. storage -- HighGround Storage Resource Manager," said Thomas Rose Thomas Ginnever Rose (16 March 1901–8 August 1979) was an English cricketer who played six first-class matches, all for Worcestershire in 1922. Rose made his debut in an innings defeat against Sussex at Hove in late May 1922; he scored 4 and 15, and bowled five , Vice President of Marketing at HighGround Systems. "HighGround is pleased to have ANDATACO as a HighGround Authorized Partner and supplier of Storage Resource Manager." ANDATACO will offer Storage Resource Manager as an option to customers seeking control over fast-growing Windows NT and Microsoft BackOffice storage. Storage Resource Manager automatically monitors every file, directory, share point, partition, and disk in Windows NT environments; sends alerts when critical thresholds are crossed; generates centralized summary reports to save IT organizations time; and provides the historical use charts and trends that IT organizations need to make more informed storage planning decisions, prevent productivity losses, and reduce downtime. Storage Resource Manager is being used by IT managers in many Global 2000 companies to address strategic storage management functions like server consolidation; backup/recovery planning; capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. ; quota management policies; budget justification; disk space chargeback Chargeback The charge a credit card merchant pays to a customer after the customer successfully disputes an item on his or her credit card statement. Notes: Customers dispute charges to their credit card usually when goods or services are not delivered within the ; and Storage Area Network (SAN) planning. About ANDATACO: ANDATACO is a global leader in innovative storage solutions 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 offers RAID and RAID-ready disk arrays, tape backup and restore products and storage management software. ANDATACO provides storage solutions in the SCSI and Fibre Channel markets with customized Storage Area Networks (SAN) and SCSI technology performing at Ultra 160-m/sec. speed. Since 1986, ANDATACO has been providing its clients with industry-leading technology to protect mission critical data and outstanding service and support provided by over 200 employees world-wide. To learn more about ANDATACO's products and the 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 "Keep the Drive Alive" Partnership Program access ANDATACO information at http://www.andataco.com. About HighGround Systems: HighGround Systems is the leading provider of storage resource management solutions for Windows NT and Microsoft BackOffice environments, and is Microsoft's chosen development partner for the Removable Storage Management service that is included as part of Windows 2000. HighGround can be reached at 508/460-5152; via e-mail at info@highground.com; or via the World Wide Web at http://www.highground.com. |
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