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Cerner Corporation Deploys Connected Network Backup for System Self-Repair and Real Time Recovery.


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NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2000

Connected Corporation, an e-Support leader in PC disaster recovery, application healing, and migration solutions, today announced that Cerner Corp. has selected Connected Network Backup (CNB CNB Czech National Bank
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) to provide automatic back-up, system self-repair, and simplified PC upgrade programs for the company's laptop computers for its entire workforce. Cerner expects to deploy CNB to more than 2,000 laptops by year-end.

With more than 2,600 employees worldwide, Cerner chose CNB after an extensive pilot program. Cerner Corporation (www.cerner.com) is a leading supplier of clinical and management information and knowledge systems to more than 1,000 healthcare organizations worldwide. Cerner's mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome.

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 of mobile PCs in the work force, their common configuration problems and their susceptibility to theft increases IT departments' challenge in supporting workers who are out of reach of support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . CNB provides a highly scalable enterprise system repair and real-time recovery Real-Time Recovery (RTR) is a new market segment that has been created due to the discontent of the traditional tape based backup and recovery technology. Most traditional backup and recovery products focus on the backup process and not what is important to a customer – which is the  solution for IT and help-desk professionals that support PCs.

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 recovery. A secure and reliable system is required at Cerner as more associates become mobile," said Jerry Smith Jerry Smith may refer to the following people:
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, Director of Cerner Business Systems. "CNB substantially reduces total cost of ownership associated with crashed hard drives, stolen laptops, and lost data. CNB's ability to manage our mobile systems helps us to insure that our systems and files will be completely protected; automatically."

"Connected Network Backup has established itself as a prime solution for full system repair and recovery in the enterprise as is demonstrated by Cerner's deployment," Craig Randall, vice president of marketing at Connected. "Companies are recognizing the importance and value of a flexible and scalable solution for their growing work force."

Connected's technology enables system information, applications and data to be captured silently, securely and efficiently over IP networks. Specific benefits include automated and instant PC self-repair and PC upgrades, full-system or data recovery with 24x7 availability, security of company data, and pre-virus or configuration problem rollback A DBMS feature that reverses the current transaction out of the database, returning the data to its former state. A rollback is performed when processing a transaction fails at some point, and it is necessary to start over. See two-phase commit.  of damaged files or PCs.

About Connected

Connected is an e-Support leader, delivering disaster recovery, backup, application healing, and migration solutions for PCs. Connected's solutions are available for users and organizations of various sizes, and reduce the total cost of desktop and mobile PC support. Connected is an Application Service Provider and an infrastructure provider for eSupport solutions. Connected's solutions have garnered numerous industry awards including: PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice" and "Best of 1999;" InfoWorld's "Hot Product," "Best of Test Center, " and "Hot Companies;" CNET's "Buy It;" PC Computing's "4 Star Award;" and Upside's "Hot 100." Connected is based in Natick, Massachusetts Natick (Pronunciation IPA: /ˈneɪtɪk/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Natick is located near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 32,170 at the .

For more information visit www.connected.com or call 1-800-353-3078.

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