Alacritus Software Announces New Customers for Securitus VTLA; NTT DoCoMo Kyushu and NS Solutions Among the New Installations.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Photo Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4548277 PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2004 Alacritus Software, the innovator in disk-based data protection solutions, today announced the addition of new strategic customers for its industry-leading Securitus VTLA VTLA Virginia Trial Lawyers Association solution, each a worldwide leader in its respective field. The new customer roster includes NTT DoCoMo (NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc., Japan) Founded in 1991, NTT DoCoMo is a spinoff of Japan's NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) which provides wireless services, including cellular, paging, satellite and maritime and in-flight telephone services. Kyushu and NS Solutions, as well as more than a dozen other Global 2000-type accounts. This brings to almost 200 the number of Securitus installations at nearly one hundred corporate sites sold directly by Nissho Electronics Corporation. Securitus creates backup appliances that use arrays of inexpensive disk, a streamlined file system, and inexpensive controllers to make the performance of disk economical for very-large-scale backup environments. Improvements in performance typically exceed 10X over customers' current data protection schemas. "Adding a VTLA with Securitus software to emulate tape libraries is essential for those organizations that want to improve the reliability, flexibility, and manageability of the data protection process with respect to their tape automation solutions," said David Hill David Hill may refer to one of a number of people with this name:
"We are pleased to add these global leaders to our roster of Securitus-based VTLA users. This is confirmation of Alacritus' leadership position in driving the disk-based data protection (DDP (Distributed Data Processing) See distributed processing. DDP - Distributed Data Processing ) marketplace," said George Wilson George Wilson is a human name, and may refer to:
Each of the new customers has very large and rapidly expanding backup and storage capacity requirements. As shown in the graphic, there is a natural expansion of capacity requirements after the initial installation of the VTLA for these high profile customers. In 2001 Nissho Electronics Corporation, Hitachi CP and Alacritus joined forces to introduce the industry's first virtual tape library A hard disk array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks while continuing to use the existing tape backup software. See virtual tape system and storage virtualization. appliance (VTLA(TM)) to the Japanese market. "Customers are always impressed with the pricing, performance, reliability and manageability of Securitus. We are pleased with the overwhelming customer acceptance these products have demonstrated in the marketplace," said Hitoshi Niki, general manager, IP and Server Solutions Strategic Promotion Division, Nissho Electronics Corporation. The newly announced companies include NTT DoCoMo Kyushu and NS Solutions. NTT DoCoMo is the world's largest provider of quality, mobile phone services. NTT DoCoMo Kyushu has approximately 4.5 million customers and a sustained compound annual growth rate of 30%. "We purchased our first Securitus-based VTLA, were very pleased with its performance and reliability and subsequently have gone through two more purchasing cycles and plan to add still more capacity in the future," said Isato Tokunaga, manager, Information Systems Division, NTT DoCoMo Kyushu. NS Solutions is a premier provider in computer and networking integration solutions to the Japanese market. NS Solutions is a 100% subsidiary of Nippon Steel. "We originally purchased our Securitus-based VTLA to provide critical backup and recovery services for our Testing/Benchmarking laboratory. We were very impressed with the pricing, reliability, and performance evinced by Securitus, so much so, in fact, that we just launched a business of reselling the product. And we trust that NS Solutions will be able to provide better IT integration services to our customers," said Hisao Hayase, group manager, Computer and Storage Group Marketing Department, IT Infrastructure Solutions Division, NS Solutions. "From the very beginning, Alacritus had the vision to foresee the market for VTLAs. We are pleased to offer the our customers steadily increasing price/performance ratios as we witness the future of VTLA technology, with ever increasing capacity, reliability and performance at an evermore ev·er·more adv. 1. Forever; always. 2. In a future time. evermore Adverb all time to come Adv. 1. cost-effective pricing point," said Don Trimmer trimmer see resco nail trimmer, toenail scissors. , founder and chief strategic officer of Alacritus Software. Pricing is dependent upon capacity and configuration. For more information, contact Alacritus at 925-469-0725 ext. 212 or visit the Alacritus Software website at www.alacritus.com. About Alacritus Software Alacritus Software is the storage industry's innovation engine for disk-based data protection software solutions. The principals of Alacritus continue in the tradition responsible for many key storage industry technological breakthroughs, including Chronospan for Time Addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be Storage, Celestra for serverless backup A type of LAN free backup that does not use any of the resources of an application server or a backup server. See LAN free backup. , the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) An open standard for backing up data in a heterogeneous environment. Developed by Network Appliance and IntelliGuard Software, NDMP uses a common data format which is written to and read from drivers for the specific disk and ), Third Party Copy, and the first backup and restore tool for networked, UNIX-based environments. Alacritus Software is located at 3825 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton, Calif. 94588. For more information, call 925-469-0725 or visit http://www.alacritus.com. MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4548277 |
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