American International to Rename Product Line.ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1999--To avoid further confusion in the removable media In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device, conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. storage marketplace, and in particular to those storage products which attach to the AS/400, American International (Ai) is changing the name of its newest promotion, MagStar Lite, to Mammoth Solution Pak. Following the introduction of this promotion, Ai discovered that it had created confusion with its use of IBM's registered trademark Magstar(R), which is attributed to IBM's popular family of Magstar tape drives and library solutions, including those for the AS/400. To further clarify the previous news release, Ai and Ai products have no association with 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) Magstar 3590 Tape Subsystem or IBM Magstar MP (Magstar MultiPurpose) A magnetic tape technology from IBM for midrange systems. Except for the use of linear recording, Magstar MP is completely different than the Magstar line. 3570 or 3575 Tape Subsystems. Rather, the Mammoth Solution Pak incorporates dual Mammoth 8mm tape drives in a dual-port design package that also includes Ai's AutoBahn(TM)/400 concurrent backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. and three-year maintenance. |
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