Comdisco and MicroAge open high-tech business recovery facility.ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1997-- New Service Provides Backup Computing Environment for Phoenix Businesses Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CDO (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based e-mail, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Enhanced MAPI library into a COM object that provides the ), the world's largest and most experienced provider of business continuity services, and MicroAge, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MICA mica (mī`kə), general term for a large group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum and potassium, often containing magnesium, ferrous iron, ferric iron, sodium, and lithium and more rarely containing barium, chromium, and fluorine. ), a global technology services provider, have combined their expertise in opening a business recovery facility in Arizona. Both companies are participating in all aspects of this initiative, from market assessment to implementation, ongoing management and service delivery. The initiative builds on an existing alliance in which MicroAge serves as an equipment supply source for Comdisco's Comprehensive Mobile Cluster disaster recovery service. This is a staged recovery solution in a preselected remote location that allows businesses to restore total functionality, including data and voice communications, as soon as the next day. As part of Comdisco's "quick ship" service, MicroAge may be called upon to deliver equipment to the remote recovery site, complementing equipment sourced from Comdisco's extensive inventory and trading expertise. Comdisco's Workarea Recovery Solutions(R) provide the industry's most technologically advanced centers built to accommodate hundreds of employees in a familiar, business environment. The new 15,000 square foot center, located in Tempe, Arizona Tempe (pronounced /tɛm.'piː/) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, with a population of 169,712 according to 2006 Census Bureau estimates. , on MicroAge's technology campus, is the region's most comprehensive business recovery facility. It offers 200 fully configured Workarea Recovery stations, with capabilities for local and wide area network recovery, and distributed and large systems recovery. All workstations are wired for voice, data and image recovery, and customers have access to laserjet printers, terminals, conference rooms, copiers and facsimile machines. Increased Need for Client/Server and LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Recovery "We've opened this facility in response to our customers' growing needs for Workarea Recovery in new geographies," said David Nolan There have been a number of notable individuals called David Nolan including;
MicroAge and Comdisco have collaborated before, forming an alliance in October 1995, to jointly market each other's services in the large account marketplace. This effort expands MicroAge's relationship with Comdisco, and reflects the company's continued focus on building its services business. "We are committed to establishing the industry's leading suite of information technology services, and we are excited to be able to extend our procurement and integration capabilities to offer businesses a computing safety net should their systems go down," said MicroAge President Robert O'Malley. "Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services is the leader in business continuity services, and we are proud to be a partner in helping them bring this service to market." Protecting the Flow of Information Comdisco's recovery model stresses the ability to protect organizations' entire flow of information, from the data center, through its networks, to the desktop. The new facility utilizes CDRS (1) (Conceptual Design and Rendering System) Software from PTC that is used to test OpenGL performance. See CDRS-03 and OPC. (2) (CDRs) (Call Detail Reports) See call accounting. Net(R), Comdisco's private, SONET-based network for remote recovery of mainframe and distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. . Phoenix-area businesses now have end-to-end business recovery capabilities in one location, without requiring out-of-state travel. The Phoenix-area facility raises Comdisco's Workarea Recovery commitment to over 6,000 workstations worldwide, and is the eighth facility in the western portion of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. dedicated to Workarea Recovery. Other western facilities include centers in Denver, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Seattle, Calgary, Alberta, and Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography . Grand Opening Planned A grand opening featuring business continuity seminars and tours of the center will be held Tuesday, January 28. MicroAge, Inc. President Robert O'Malley and Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services President David Nolan are featured speakers at the event. For more information, call 800-272-9792. MicroAge, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is a global technology services company, providing distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. solutions and ISO- iso- or is- pref. 1. Equal; uniform: isobar. 2. Isomeric: isopropyl. 3. 9001-certified multivendor integration services to large organizations and computer resellers worldwide. The company serves corporate America and government agencies through its MicroAge Infosystems Services network of branches and alliance partners spanning 29 countries, and offers computer resellers over 20,000 products from more than 500 suppliers backed by a suite of technical, financial, distribution and account management services. ECadvantage, MicroAge's new electronic commerce architecture, is utilizing the Internet to streamline the delivery of services to its customers. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, the company's annual revenues exceed $3.5 billion. Information about MicroAge is available on the World Wide Web at www.microage.com. Comdisco, Inc., a technology services company, is one of the world's leading providers of solutions that help organizations reduce technology cost and risk. These services include asset management, business continuity, network services, and equipment leasing Equipment Leasing is a financing option to lease equipment for a certain amount of time. Leasing Benefits
Comdisco, its logos, CDRS Net and Workarea Recovery Solutions are registered trademarks, and Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services is a trademark of Comdisco, Inc. Other names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Comdisco Diane Laux, 847/518-5409 djlaux@comdisco.com or MicroAge Jay O'Callaghan, 602/366-7987 jocallag@microage.com |
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