CDP's SnapBack Live! for Windows NT Provides Unique Legacy Universal Tape File Access.ALTAMONTE SPRINGS Al·ta·monte Springs A city of east-central Florida, a residential suburb of Orlando. Population: 40,900. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 1997--Columbia Data Products Inc. Friday announced that the latest release of SnapBack Live! for 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. is the first and only backup product to allow server mounting of any SnapBack-generated tape for which NT has a compatible file-system driver. Easy end-user file recovery from tape has always been a key feature of the SnapBack system. Now SnapBack users can mount any tape (including tapes that contain DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, OS/2 HPFS (High Performance File System) The file system introduced with OS/2 Version 1.2 that handles large disks (2TB volumes; 2GB files) and long file names (256 bytes). It coexists with the existing FAT system. HPFS - High Performance File System or other FAT file systems) as read-only drives on NT servers. CDP CDP (cytidine diphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Certificate in Data Processing) An earlier award for the successful completion of an examination in hardware, software, systems analysis, programming, management and accounting, President Alan Welsh said: ``True Image Technology makes SnapBack Live! for NT the only product in the world that allows system administrators and end users access to tapes written under any NT-compatible or installable file systems. ``By faithfully reproducing actual drive images, we not only support current systems, but legacy and any future installable or custom operating systems using the NT installable file-system API.'' Tapes need not be created under NT. SnapBack NT can read newly recorded tapes as well as any True Image legacy tapes containing compatible operating-system images. This facility will permit administrators of heterogeneous network configurations to directly access archive tapes recorded in any compatible format. This ensures continuous availability of archive data even after the source operating system or hardware has been retired or replaced. SnapBack Live! provides NT and NetWare network administrators fast, easy, live server backup without bringing their servers down or impacting system performance. SnapBack Live! also provides full server recovery, file-by-file restoration and open file management without any add-on products. Administrators can create a perfect copy of any Windows NT or NetWare server, including the boot volume, disk partition table, security and all user files, including files open during the backup. SnapBack Live! provides fast and easy backup without interrupting user, application or database workflow. Columbia will demonstrate True Image legacy tape-retrieval technology at Comdex Las Vegas in the Microsoft BackOffice Partner Pavilion, Booth L2212, in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . CDP will also be in the Novell Partner Pavilion. Columbia Data Products Columbia Data Products (CDP) introduced the MPC 1600 "Multi Personal Computer" in June 1982. It was an exact functional copy of the IBM PC model 5150 except for the BIOS which was clean roomed. was founded in 1976 and is a leader in SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. connectivity and data-management software. More than 250,000 users, including major OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers and the federal government, have benefited from the company's SCSI software technology since 1987. More recently, CDP's innovative SnapBack True Image backup and data-management software technology has been validated by Fortune 500 customers such as Principal Financial, 3M, AT&T GIS, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Ford Motor Co., Hewlett-Packard and 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) . The privately owned company is located in Altamonte Springs and can be contacted at 407/869-6700; fax 407/862-4725; e-mail cdp@cdp.com; Web site http://www.cdp.com . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Columbia Data Products and SnapBack Live! are trademarks of Columbia Data Products Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Columbia Data Products Inc., Altamonte Springs For sales information: 800/613-6288 Steve Guerra, 407/869-6700 sguerra@cdp.com or Kathleen Botz, 602/396-4245 kbcommun@aol.com |
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