Amdahl Announces Support for Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition 4.0.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1997-- Industrial Strength Solutions With EnVista Servers Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and today announced that it will be offering the latest 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. (R) server technology, Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT Server, Enterprise Edition(TM) 4.0. When combined with Amdahl's datacenter class EnVista(TM) family of enterprise servers and LVS LVS Linux Virtual Server LVS Live Vaccine Strain LVS Las Vegas, New Mexico (Airport Code) LVS Low Voltage Switchgear LVS Logistical Vehicle System LVS Laser Vibration Sensor LVS Logistics Vehicle System storage systems, the clustering and interoperability technologies will provide Amdahl customers with solutions to meet the requirements of large enterprises that are migrating to Windows NT Server as a strategic platform. Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition 4.0 will provide Amdahl customers with increased robustness for Windows NT Server through general availability of Microsoft Cluster Server Clustering software from Microsoft for Windows NT/2000. It provides rudimentary load balancing and two-node failover, which allows a second server to take over if the first one fails. Cluster Server was formerly code named Wolfpack. , a built-in feature of the Enterprise Edition. The Microsoft product will also increase the performance of Windows NT Server for very large-scale applications. More importantly for enterprise users, an enhanced version of Microsoft Message Queue Server Messaging middleware for Windows NT from Microsoft. Code named Falcon, and abbreviated MSMQ, it allows programs to send messages to other programs. It can be used to queue up transactions in a transaction processing system, for example. allows Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition 4.0 to interoperate with mainframe transactional systems and databases through third-party gateways. Together this set of technologies will enable Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition 4.0 to be used for mission-critical applications. "Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition 4.0 is an important innovation for our enterprise customers," said Greg Grodhaus, Chief Marketing Officer of the Amdahl Corporation. "Organizations seeking to deploy key business applications on Windows NT Server and the Microsoft BackOffice family of products need the increased scalability, availability and interoperability Enterprise Edition provides. This will lead to wider adoption of Windows NT Server with the IT community." This is another example of the Amdahl tradition of bringing robust mainframe-class technology solutions and services to the Windows NT environment. Amdahl continues to raise the bar by providing products and services that help customers create customized solutions that help gain a competitive advantage in their industries. "Our customers will depend on Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition 4.0 for their most mission-critical server applications," said Enzo Schiano, Group Product Manager for Windows NT Server at Microsoft. "Microsoft is pleased customers will be able to use Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition 4.0 on Amdahl EnVista servers with LVS storage systems, backed by Amdahl's years of experience in datacenter management and 'glass house' availability." Amdahl's EnVista servers and LVS storage have been designed to allow customers to take advantage of the features in Microsoft Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition 4.0. Using Microsoft Cluster Server, Amdahl will provide factory-integrated cluster solutions that exploit the fault-resilient design of the LVS storage system to provide a computing platform with no single, active point of failure. Customers needing to support large communities of users around the clock will benefit from a system that can quickly recovery from hardware or software failures and help reduce downtime due to scheduled maintenance. EnVista Servers Model FS and FS/R offer up to 4 GB of memory and can exploit the high-capacity memory tuning in tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition for improved throughput on memory-intensive applications such as online-transaction processing. Amdahl will also provide services to assist customers in deploying Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition 4.0. Building on Amdahl's expertise with Parallel Sysplex on System/390 and cluster failover solutions on 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). (R), Amdahl consulting engineers can help design and implement a complete cluster solution on Windows NT Server. High-availability competency centers are being established in Dallas, Texas and Dublin, Ireland to assist customers in their implementation. "As Amdahl's professional services company, DMR (Digital Media Receiver) See digital media hub. has in place an international network of nearly 7,000 information technology professionals across the United States, Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region," said Robert Sargenti, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of DMR Consulting Group. "These ranks of qualified and experienced consulting specialists can provide the expertise and support necessary for Amdahl customers to maximize the benefits that can be achieved in implementing the new Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition." About Amdahl Amdahl Corporation (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :AMH AMH Abington Memorial Hospital (Abington, PA) AMH Anti-Müllerian Hormone AMH Australian Medicines Handbook AMH Automated Material Handling AMH Aviation Structural Mechanic (Hydraulics) US Navy Rating ) provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has more than two decades of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend Windows NT, MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , and UNIX operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with best-of-breed offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries. -0- Note to Editors: Amdahl and EnVista are registered trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. MVS and System/390 are registered trademarks and Parallel Sysplex is a trademark of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation. Microsoft, Windows NT and Microsoft Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license is non-exclusive) through X/Open Company, Limited. All other trademarks and product names are property of their respective owners. Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at http://www.amdahl.com, the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl pages provide current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing. CONTACT: Amdahl Corporation Mary Luciano, 408/746-6166 mas20@oes.amdahl.com or LVA LVA Latvia (ISO Country code) LVA Landesversicherungsanstalt (German: public insurance) LVA Literacy Volunteers of America LVA Layered Voice Analysis (Nemesysco) Communications Joseph Blumberg, 860/739-5598 2025218@mcimail.com |
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