Backup and Storage Leader Changes Name to CMS Products; Name Change Reflects New Direction for Backup-Focused Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2003 CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. Products Inc., the leader in backup and storage solutions for notebook and desktop computers, today announced its name change from CMS Peripherals to CMS Products. The name change reflects the new direction the company is headed as it expands its offerings to include stand-alone 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. solutions in addition to the company's hardware products. CMS Products' first stand-alone software offering was realized when the company formed a software licensing agreement with Seagate Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :STX STX - Start Of Text ). Under the terms of the agreement, CMS Products developed BounceBack Express(TM), now bundled with Seagate's External Hard Drives and retail drives. "Our new name is a more accurate reflection of how far our company has evolved since our inception and it incorporates the wide range of products available to our customers," said Ken Burke, president of CMS Products. "We are no longer just focused on hardware, we are pleased to provide consumers with a variety of backup options which deliver the world's easiest backup solutions." Founded in 1983, CMS Products (formerly CMS Peripherals) began producing high-performance mass storage solutions. The company built a reputation through its design, manufacture and development of a broad line of products for desktop and mobile computers. As the privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. grew, it began to supply these storage solutions to U.S. Fortune 500 Companies, government agencies and others internationally through various distributors and corporate resellers, such as Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. and Tech Data. The new software focus enables CMS Products to continually enhance the ease of use of the ABSplus product line and future products. CMS Products will continue to develop its innovative ABSplus automatic backup system Noun 1. backup system - a computer system for making backups ADP system, ADPS, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system - a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage , which has received numerous industry awards and accolades as the industry's first fully integrated software and hardware solution. It provides users with complete backup, restore, disaster recovery and bootability features. About CMS Products With more than four million CMS storage solutions installed in over 90 countries, the complete line of CMS storage products includes automatic backup solutions for both notebooks and desktops, backup and disaster recovery software, notebook hard drive upgrades and data transfer kits, and high capacity desktop hard drives. For more information, contact CMS Products, 3095 Redhill Avenue, Costa Mesa, Calif. 92626, Phone: 800-327-5773 / 714-424-5520, Fax: 714-435-9504 or visit CMS' Web site at www.cmsproducts.com. |
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