ANDATACO demonstrates high-performance network storage solutions at UNIX Expo in New York.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1995--ANDATACO Corp., designer and manufacturer of network storage solutions for the 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). client/server enterprise, will showcase network storage solutions in Booth No. 720 at UNIX Expo at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Sept. 19-21. Attendees can register for a T-shirt with ANDATACO's electronic catalog and technical archive on the World Wide Web, called On-The-Net. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.andataco.com. Hot New Products Unveiled for the first time will be ANDATACO's RAPID-Tape 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. Library Array, the world's first tape library with an embedded tape array controller. By harnessing the throughput of four DLT drives in an array, the RAPID-Tape DLT library delivers four times the performance of standard tape libraries. ANDATACO will also introduce RAPID-Serv NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System , a complete family of NFS File Servers. RAPID-Serv NFS incorporates an advanced journaling file system that accelerates NFS I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output in addition to providing 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. and on-line backup. The file server also features a Volume Manager providing graphical administration, a real-time performance monitor and host-based RAID. RAPID-Serv NFS includes a High Availability (HA) option whereby a cluster of NFS servers can be configured to eliminate all single points of failure with automatic I/O path failover and server failover. Demonstrations Every half-hour, ANDATACO will alternate demonstrations of a High Availability (HA) NFS Server Cluster and High-Speed Network Backup. The NFS Server demonstration features a cluster of two servers and a single client on a network. While the client is reading and writing to files on both servers, you can pull the plug on one server and see automatic failover to the other server, transparent to the client. Attendees will also see how easy it is to manage the networked storage with graphical administration tools. To illustrate the difference between local backup and network backup, and how using FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. and ATM might affect your network backup, ANDATACO will feature a High Speed Network Backup demo. ANDATACO will demonstrate different local backups using single disk drives and disk arrays backing up to single 4mm, 8mm and DLT drives and tape arrays. In addition, ANDATACO will demonstrate backup between disk on one server to tape on another server across Ethernet, FDDI and ATM. ANDATACO, with headquarters in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , designs, manufactures, markets and services integrated storage, systems and network- management solutions for the UNIX client/server enterprise. The company delivers responsive service and support from 12 sales and service offices across the United States, through worldwide business affiliates in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada and Australia, and through the World Wide Web (http://www.andataco.com). ANDATACO Corporate Headquarters can be reached at 619/453-9191 or 800/334-9191; fax 619/453-9294; e-mail inquire@andataco.com. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: ANDATACO is a registered trademark of ANDATACO Corp. All other products are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: ANDATACO Corp., San Diego Emily Ospenson, 619/453-9696, ext. 1101 emily@andataco.com (e-mail) |
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