Ampex DST Tape Backup System Becomes PETCO's New Best Friend.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1997--PETCO Animal Supplies Inc., San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif., a leading specialty retailer of premium pet food and supplies, has installed an Ampex DST (1) (DeSTination) Contrast with SRC, which is an abbreviation of "source." (2) (Digital Signal Trust Company, Salt Lake City, UT, www.digsigtrust.com) An organization that sets up and manages PKI systems for companies and industry groups. 312 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 tape storage system to back up their entire corporate business functions and all information collected from their stores' point of sale systems. According to Eric Rosenzweig, PETCO's Director of Information Systems, the company performs incremental backups all week long highlighted by a weekly full system backup of 73GB compressed, approximately 350GB uncompressed, including all financial, inventory, point of sale, merchandising and network applications. Each Ampex tape cartridge can hold up to 330GB uncompressed. The company's installed server base consists of five SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. servers, two SGI workstations and a Novell Network as well as three Novell servers and four Windows NT servers. Three of the servers and both workstations are backed up at this time. "Last year, we upgraded our legacy computer system to a server-based system," Rosenzweig explained. "As part of the upgrade, another vendor's data storage system was put in place. We tested several other high speed backup solutions during the past year and a half, but were dissatisfied with their results. "When it became obvious that our current backup systems would not meet our expected growth, we were introduced to Ampex Corp. Ampex told us they could provide backup throughput of up to 15 MB/sec so we challenged them to prove it. They brought in their equipment, installed it and proved the throughput." Software support for the Ampex DST 312 tape drive comes from SGI and Legato Systems -- SGI regarding SGI-related Legato issues and Legato directly regarding Windows NT and Novell client issues. The documentation provided by Ampex on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). is very thorough and easy to understand. Without any other instruction, users are able to follow all the prescribed maintenance procedures just by reading the manual. Information on Ampex is available on the World Wide Web at www.ampex.com or by telephone at 800/647-0564 or by fax at 650/367-3850. The company is located at 500 Broadway, Redwood City, Calif. 94063-3199. PETCO operates 344 stores including 285 superstores, in 22 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . The company's 15,000 square foot superstores carry a complete merchandise assortment of more than 10,000 active stock keeping units of high quality pet-related products. PETCO's total net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight for the 1996 fiscal year were $500 million. Ampex Corp., with headquarters in Redwood City, is one of the world's leading innovators in the fields of magnetic recording, image processing and high performance digital storage. Currently, Ampex is focusing its technology on the emerging market for mass digital storage in the visual information age. During its 53-year history of innovation, Ampex has been granted thousands of patents and has earned numerous awards for technical achievement. Today, Ampex customers include such well-known organizations as AT&T, Boeing, Mobil Oil, Time Warner and NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. . CONTACT: Daly-Swartz PR Jeffrey Swartz, 714/361-6888 jeff_swartz@prodigy.com |
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