ATL Products Opens New Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1999-- New Facility Provides APAC APAC Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing APAC Agricultural Policy Analysis Center APAC Asia and Pacific APAC Asian Pacific American Coalition APAC Adapted Physical Activity Council (American Alliance for Health) Customers and Business Partners with Sales, Marketing and Service Support Featuring a Solutions Center and Complete Training Capabilities ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up Products, a leading supplier of intelligent DLTtape(TM) libraries for networked computers, Wednesday announced the opening of its new Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters located in Queensland, Australia. The new facility offers complete sales, marketing and service capabilities and provides ATL APAC customers and business partners with fully equipped Solutions and Training Centers. The new regional headquarters supports customers in Australia, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Mainland China, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Thailand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (srē läng`kə) [Sinhalese,=resplendent land], formerly Ceylon, ancient Taprobane, officially Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, island republic (2005 est. pop. , and features a central repair center for Australia and New Zealand customers. The Solutions Center and Training Center within the new APAC headquarters provides solutions support for ATL business partners who include value-added resellers (VARs), independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware vendors (IHVs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It allows ATL and its business affiliates to showcase complete desktop to data center storage solutions, simulate 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). application environments, and provide storage automation training utilizing the latest in DLTtape technology. The Solutions and Training Centers feature ATL's high-end, enterprise-class library systems that include High-Availability (HA), massive capacity, superior performance and centralized management for the backup of mission-critical applications such as Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft. Both centers will also utilize ATL's 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. , NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular and SAN Backup Appliances(TM) geared towards the backup of workgroup and departmental applications that include Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . As a result, ATL customers and business alliance partners now have access to the industry's most comprehensive line of DLTtape library solutions featuring the PowerStor L200, PowerStor L500, P1000 Series, 7100 Series, and P3000 Series. "ATL aggressively supported the APAC market during the Asian Crisis when other competitive storage automation providers cut their losses and exited the territory. Given our support, dedication and commitment to this market, ATL has grown its APAC business by 400 percent over this past year alone," said John Woolcott, vice president of International Field Operations for ATL Products. "With expectations of doubling the APAC business during this current fiscal year, ATL has made a significant investment in a new facility and resources to better support the growing needs of our APAC customers and business partners." Complete presentation capabilities are also featured within the new APAC headquarters, ideally suited for a variety of meetings, seminars and training. Also on site are ATL professionally trained field service and applications engineering experts who provide customer support for pre-sale, sale and post-sale activities. The new APAC facility is approximately 10 minutes from Brisbane City and its international airport making it ideally situated for out of state and international visitors. The regional headquarters is managed by Graham Timm, ATL regional director of field operations and is located at 80 Kingsford Smith Kingsford Smith can refer to:
Desktop to Data Center Solutions Housed within the new APAC regional headquarters is the most comprehensive DLTtape library family available to the industry featuring the following ATL desktop to data center library solutions: -- PowerStor L200: targeted towards small workgroups featuring one DLTtape drive, 8 cartridges, 18 GB/hour performance and 280 GB capacity. -- PowerStor L500: targeted towards workgroups and departments featuring up to 3 DLTtape drives, 14 cartridges, 54 GB/hour performance and 490 GB capacity. -- P1000 Series: targeted towards departmental and midrange applications featuring up to 4 DLTtape drives, 30 cartridges, 72 GB/hour performance and 1.05 TB capacity. Industry's first library to feature PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). expansion and ATL's Prism Library Architecture(TM). -- 7100 Series: targeted at storage intensive applications featuring up to 7 DLTtape drives, 100 cartridges, 126 GB/hour performance and 3.5 TB capacity. -- P3000 Series: targeted at Enterprise-class applications featuring up to 16 DLTtape drives, 326 cartridges, 288 GB/hour performance and 11.4 TB capacity. Industry's first 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. (HA) designed DLTtape library and includes ATL's Prism Library Architecture. About ATL Products ATL Products, a Quantum Company, is recognized worldwide as a market innovator in the design, manufacture and service of automated DLTtape library systems having earned a reputation for superb quality and reliability. Delivering library systems through OEMs and a worldwide network of authorized resellers and distributors, ATL ships a large percentage of the world's DLTtape libraries. The DLTtape market is growing rapidly and ATL is at the forefront with thousands of library systems currently installed worldwide. Serving the world market for storage automation, corporate headquarters for ATL Products is in Irvine. An additional site in Irvine serves as one of the world's largest manufacturing facilities dedicated to DLTtape automation technology. Sales and service are provided throughout major cities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For additional information, call ATL Products at 949/856-7800, or browse the company Web site at www.atlp.com. The foregoing statements regarding performance and future products are forward looking statements and actual results could vary. Factors which could affect actual results include unexpected shortages of critical components, short product lives, the timing of new product introductions, competition (including new and directly competitive products from others), and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products by both distribution channels and end-user customers. Note to Editors: All performance and capacity specifications are native and can be doubled with 2:1 compression. DLTtape and 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. are trademarks of Quantum Corp. in the United States and other countries. Backup Appliance and Prism Library Architecture are trademarks of ATL Products in the United States and other countries. |
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