Columbia Data Products to unveil industry's first complete open file, backup and recovery solution for NetWare at Networld+Interop.ALTAMONTE SPRINGS Al·ta·monte Springs A city of east-central Florida, a residential suburb of Orlando. Population: 40,900. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1996--Columbia Data Products Inc. will roll out its new SnapBack 4, the first complete NetWare backup solution that seamlessly backs up all open server files and transactions, during Networld+Interop, Sept. 18-20, at the Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. in Atlanta, Booth No. 3665. The latest release of the award-winning SnapBack product line is a NetWare Loadable Module See NLM. (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. ) based on CDP's innovative image backup engine. It instantaneously backs up all open files and transactions, including NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services (NetWare Directory Services See eDirectory. (networking) Netware Directory Services - (NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services for Netware, Windows NT, and Unix. The NDS directory represents each network resource (user, hardware, or application) as an object of a certain class, where each class has ), on a NetWare server, even while the files are being used and changed, maintaining complete real-time integrity of Novell server hard disks. SnapBack 4 is the first NetWare backup product to offer integrated support for backing up open files. Other, less-complete backup products ignore open files, or they corrupt the backed-up files if changed while being backed up. The only option previously available to users of outdated backup applications was to purchase after-market backup agents, St. Bernard St. Bernard a very large (110-200 lb) dog with massive, broad head, medium-sized ears lying close to the head, and a long tail. There are two varieties, the most familiar (rough) has a long, thick coat, while the smooth variety has a shorter coat, lying close to the body. (a), DBagent (a), or Arcada's Oracle Agent (a) to handle open files. But even these combined solutions are lacking, as they often add overhead to the backup, taking up precious CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilization and resulting in poor performance. These open file agents typically need to know specifically how each application operates to properly back them up. SnapBack 4 is also immune to the problems that plague other similar backup products that actually "freeze" the NetWare volume they are backing up. As a result, any user trying to write to the frozen volume -- such as adding a contact to a database or just accessing a database that does record locking -- could lose data and will be locked out of the program until the backup is completed. Conversely, SnapBack 4 is a user-oriented solution, always giving priority to the users so server resources are always available when they are needed, and availability is not restricted by the backup software. Alan Welsh, 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, noted that even though SnapBack 4 competes in the market for NetWare backup applications, it more accurately should be characterized as the first complete NetWare backup solution, indicating that it is targeted at a backup problem that has not been solved until now. "SnapBack 4 is the only comprehensive backup solution available today that combines seamless support for handling open files with disaster recovery and simple, fast, end-user file restoration capabilities," said Welsh. "We also call it a solution because proper backup and restore operations require a complete collection of capabilities to quickly and easily backup, restore files, or even build or rebuild all or parts of a NetWare file server. No one else gives you all of this functionality in a single solution package." Fastest NetWare Restoration Available Along with its advanced backup file management capability that allows end users to access the backup tape just like a hard drive, SnapBack 4 also provides the fastest disaster recovery available. Because SnapBack can restore a complete server with any DOS boot floppy, it does not require a set of system-specific rescue disks. In a normal NetWare environment, if rescue disks are lost or unusable, the complete server environment must be rebuilt file-by-file before a restoration of backed-up files can begin. This time-consuming process can take anywhere from six hours to several days. SnapBack 4 eliminates this issue, allowing NetWare administrators to perform the complete restoration from any DOS boot floppy at the maximum data rate of the backup devices (currently 36 gigabytes per hour). Other similar solutions require system-specific rescue disks to load NetWare prior to starting the restoration, and could take three times as long to restore. SnapBack NLM for NetWare is now available. A Windows NT version is scheduled for availability during the fourth quarter of this year. The single-server, unlimited-user version is $995 and comes with unlimited free technical support, free updates for one year, and a no-nonsense 30-day money-back guarantee. 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. 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 backup and data management software technology has been validated by Fortune 500 customers such as 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 company is located in Altamonte Springs, and can be contacted at: phone: 407/869-6700, fax: 407/862-4725, e-mail: cdpi@cdpi.com, Web: www.cdp.com/. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Columbia Data Products is a registered trademark of Columbia Data Products Inc. SnapBack, SnapBack 4 and CDP are trademarks of Columbia Data Products Inc. (a) A trademark or trade name of an entity other than Columbia Data Products. To set an appointment for a private demo at Networld+Interop, contact Kathleen Botz at KB Communications at 602/545-1230 or e-mail: kbcommun@aol.com. CONTACT: Columbia Data Products Inc. Steve Guerra, 407/869-6700 e-mail: steveg@cdp.com http://www.cdp.com/ or KB Communications Kathleen Botz, 602/545-1230 e-mail: kbcommun@aol.com |
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