Brainstorm Technologies launches new Lotus Notes system administration tool for Notes 3.x and 4.0 environments; Continues expansion into Notes third-party market with technology purchase from Mauby Technologies.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 1995--In a move to expand its position as a leader in the Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. applications and tools market, Brainstorm Technologies Inc., today announced it has acquired a systems administration tool product from Mauby
Mauby (also mavi in Puerto Rico, or mabi) is a drink that is widely consumed in the Caribbean. Technologies. The new updated product, soon-to-be released under the Brainstorm name of ServerAdmin Plus v1.5 for Lotus Notes, eases the administration of Notes 3.x and Notes 4.0 as well as Notes running in mixed-mode environment. The all cash deal, valued at an undisclosed amount, gives Brainstorm an initial presence in another segment of the fast-growing Lotus Notes after-market -- the systems administration tools category -- complementing Lotus NotesView and Notes 4.0. Brainstorm's current products fall into three general areas of Lotus Notes integration at the enterprise level: Notes-4GL development tools, Notes-RDBMS integration tools and Notes-desktop integration; collectively used by over 20 percent of all organizations that use Lotus Notes worldwide. "The acquisition of Mauby's `industrial-strength' Notes systems administration tool further poises Brainstorm to capture increased marketshare in the Notes' third-party space; and more importantly, gives our customers a single vendor point for buying a wide-range of superior software products that fill critical needs within their Notes' environments," said Rizwan Q. Virk, Brainstorm's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Brainstorm's ServerAdmin Plus (SA+) solves a number of critical problems currently facing Notes systems administrators working in Notes 3.x environments: user access control list (ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. ) management, replication and database management, and server statistics control. More importantly, SA+ is an essential tool for organizations migrating to Lotus Notes 4.0 and is designed specifically to address the needs of organizations to manage Notes server administration in a mixed environment of Notes 3.x and Notes 4.0 servers. Brainstorm's SA+ employs an extremely easy-to-use, point-and-click Windows interface. SA+ features four key administrative workbenches: ACL Management Workbench, Replication Management Workbench, Database Workbench and Server Statistics Workbench. Unlike NotesView, which is a passive monitoring Passive monitoring is a technique used to capture traffic from a network by generating a copy of that traffic, often from a span port or mirror port or via a network tap. Once the data (a stream of frames or packets) has been extracted, it can be used in many ways. tool for viewing the health of Notes servers, mail status and Notes networks, SA+ continuously polls Notes servers, and administrators can actively update and interact with these critical Notes `sub-systems.' The ACL Management Workbench solves the problems of maintaining and updating the access control lists of Notes users across a Notes `enterprise.' It significantly reduces the time it takes to perform frequent database maintenance tasks such as search, modify, update and sort all Notes users. Currently these tasks need to be done at every Notes server every time. For example, SA+ provides a unique "Nuke User" button which automatically removes terminated employees from all ACLs and groups across an entire organization potentially spread out across hundreds of Notes databases. "I find ServerAdmin Plus to be an excellent tool for administrators. The GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. interface for performing system monitoring A System Monitor (SM) is a process within a distributed system for collecting and storing state data. There are many issues involved with designing and implementing a system monitor. and administrative functions from the administrative workstation is a big advance over Notes native facilities," said Richard Schwartz Richard Schwartz is currently a professor of mathematics at Brown University. His accomplishments include a proof of the Goldman-Parker conjecture, and a proof that every triangle all of whose angles are less than 100 degrees has a periodic billiard orbit. of RHS RHS Royal Horticultural Society RHS Right Hand Side RHS Rural Housing Service RHS Rickards High School (Tallahassee, FL) RHS Red Hat Society RHS Ridgewood High School (New Jersey) Consulting, a Lotus Notes business partner. "The Nuke User feature alone makes the product a must for the hub of any mature Notes network." The Replication Management Workbench addresses one of the key challenges for Notes system administrators -- understanding the status of Notes replication across the network. Notes replication is a very expensive network operation, often occurring unnecessarily within large Notes networks. At a mouse click, SA+ can provide administrators with a list of all active and inactive replicas of any Notes database located on all servers. Additionally, through direct manipulation of Notes replica IDs, SA+ can efficiently delete, stop and re-establish links among any number of Notes databases. The Database Workbench is a critical tool which helps administrators easily manage diskspace usage and improve system performance. As Notes databases continue to grow with use, it becomes essential that over time administrators can easily compact, re-index and sort all databases on any server by size, usage, "fattest," etc. The Database Workbench is as essential to Notes administrators as a file manager is to Windows users. Lastly, the Server Statistics Workbench provides administrators with an easy and efficient method of determining Notes server performance over a period of time. SA+ provides six graphs and charts which let administrators see trends in server memory utilization, swap file A disk file used to temporarily save a program or part of a program running in memory. See Windows swap file. (operating system) swap file - A file used by a program or, more often, an operating system as swap space. performance and other trends. As Notes 4.0 begins to support more users per Notes server, it becomes critical that administrators have an easy way to view the "vital signs" of any Notes server. Unlike all other system control programs, including the base Notes 4.0 administration set, ServerAdmin Plus is client-based and therefore supports all Notes server operating systems including Windows, 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. , WFW See Windows for Workgroups. WFW - Windows for Workgroups , OS/2, 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). and Novell NLM Software that runs in a NetWare server. Although NetWare servers store DOS and Windows applications, they do not execute them. All programs that run in a NetWare server must be compiled into the NLM format. They are typically written in C and use Novell's libraries. . In addition, client-based administrative tools are quickly becoming popular because of their non-invasive and interactive method of administration, and hence help ensure system stability and reliability in the event of a crash. With SA+, the Notes server will continue to operate in the event of program downtime, since only one Notes workstation will be affected rather than the entire server. In a related area, Brainstorm will be expanding its consulting services to include a new practice for outsourcing the function of systems administration and management of Lotus Notes environments. Pricing for ServerAdmin Plus. v1.5 begins at $895 per server with quantity discounts and is shipping immediately. ServerAdmin Plus runs under Windows 3.x Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
For more information on ServerAdmin Plus v1.5 or other Brainstorm Lotus Notes products, see Brainstorm's Web site -- http://www.braintech.com or electronic mail address (messaging) electronic mail address - (Usually "e-mail address") The string used to specify the source or destination of an electronic mail message. E.g. "john@doc.acme.ac.uk". The RFC 822 standard is probably the most widely used on the Internet. X. -- info@braintech.com. Founded in 1993, Brainstorm Technologies Inc. is a pioneer in the development of Lotus Notes applications and development tools. The company provides both off-the-shelf products and a range of consulting services designed to help organizations gain access and integrate data from existing databases into Lotus Notes. CONTACT: Slater PR & Marketing Terri Slater, 508/359-5677 or Brainstorm Technologies Mitchell Liu, 617/621-0800 |
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