AT&T Wireless, Southeast region, chooses Tricord PowerFrame Enterprise Servers for data warehousing, remote access applications.PLYMOUTH, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1996--The Southeast region of AT&T Wireless Services has purchased 19 high-performance Tricord PowerFrame Enterprise Servers to run a wide range of business-critical applications ranging from data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse to e-mail. The contract, valued at more than $1 million, will also provide remote access services (communications) Remote Access Services - (RAS) A service provided by Windows NT which allows most of the services which would be available on a network to be accessed over a modem link. for sales employees in the Southeast United States. The Tricord servers will consolidate all AT&T Wireless' Southeast operations in a seamless Windows NT environment, improve performance and reliability, and centralize system management, reducing maintenance costs. David Farber, vice president, information services See Information Systems. for the Southeast region, is using the PowerFrame servers to achieve true computer-telephone integration, a move the division of AT&T Wireless expects will increase company productivity and improve customer service. Sales personnel will be able to finalize commercial account activations and credit checks on the road, for instance, improving customer responsiveness. "Our aggressive client service standards require technology with exceptional performance," said Farber. "Tricord's server technology gives us the performance and reliability we need." Each Tricord server is scalable in terms of both storage and CPUs so the system can easily keep pace with AT&T's aggressive growth plans. "The PowerFrame Enterprise Server is designed for scalability, so customers like AT&T can add processors, memory NICs and 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. devices, with no sacrifice in performance," said Cory Devor, vice president of systems development, Tricord. "We want to leverage our investment over several years," Farber said. "Tricord has demonstrated it can give us the flexibility to expand at a reasonable cost and maintain excellent user response." Tricord Systems Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :TRCD TRCD Time Ras to Cas Delay ) designs, manufactures, markets and supports the PowerFrame Enterprise Server for use in mission-critical OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing , OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. , media and file/print applications running on Microsoft Windows NT and Novell NetWare. All PowerFrame systems are characterized by an open system design with emphasis on system management, fault tolerance, high performance and scalability. Tricord headquarters are in Plymouth. For information, call 800/TRICORD or visit the company's Web site at http://www.tricord.com/. CONTACT: The Bohle Co., Los Angeles Genevieve Haldeman/Vikki Holmes 310/785-0515 (phone) 310/286-9551 (fax) gh@bohle.com or vh@bohle.com (e-mail) |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion