Comdisco announces joining Oracle's Alliance Program.ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1996--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 ) joins the Oracle Alliance Program. Through the Alliance Program, Comdisco will participate in a special program, Systems Management Tools Initiative (SMTI SMTI Supernatural Ministries Training Institute (London, ON, Canada) SMTI Systems Management Tools Initiative (Oracle) SMTI SAF Medical Training Institute (Singapore) ), on offering products tailored specifically to open and heterogeneous environments. ComPAS(R), the award-winning, automated business continuity planning Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is an interdisciplinary peer mentoring methodology used to create and validate a practiced logistical plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined software, is Comdisco's first product to be adopted into the program. With ComPAS, Oracle users can build plans that address availability and recoverability of their mission critical databases and network technologies. Additionally, Comdisco is assessing the synergies between Oracle and Comdisco and expects to introduce complementary services by year end. "An effective business continuity plan reflects strategies not only for technology recovery, but also for data and the underlying applications that drive the business," said David Nolan There have been a number of notable individuals called David Nolan including;
v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. our applications recovery experience to create value-added, enterprise-wide solutions for customers, the majority of which use Oracle as their database foundations." "The combination of Oracle's industry-leading technology and Comdisco's business continuity planning software will create a powerful competitive advantage for our mutual customers," stated Polly Sumner, vice president of Oracle's Worldwide Alliances. "Oracle is excited to be working with Comdisco in making disaster recovery solutions more accessible and beneficial to a wider audience." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the 1995 Vulnerability Index(SM), one in five U.S. companies have experienced a business interruption of more than 24 hours. An outage of this duration would have a dramatic impact on an organization's business process if no recovery plans were in place. "A growing number of our customers employ very large databases that are continuously accessed by business units throughout the enterprise," said Nolan. "They understand that emphasizing recoverability in media management, especially in distributed and open systems environments, is a critical element for business continuity, and look to Oracle and Comdisco to provide direction and tools to reduce their vulnerability to disaster." Comdisco will present its business continuity solutions at Oracle Open World, November 3-8 at Moscone Center The Moscone Center is San Francisco, California's largest convention and exhibition complex. The complex consists of two main underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone North and Moscone South, as well the three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street. in 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 . Founded in 1980, Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services, headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, is the world's largest and most experienced provider of business continuity services. It has a network of fully equipped computer and business recovery centers available to subscribers in the event of a disruption affecting their businesses. In addition to its network of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. recovery facilities, Comdisco operates facilities in Germany, France and Great Britain. Comdisco also provides services in Singapore and Malaysia through marketing alliances with Singapore Technology and Computer Recovery Center Malaysia. Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services is a division of Comdisco, Inc., a technology services company and one of the world's leading providers of solutions that help organizations reduce technology cost and risk. These services include asset management; equipment leasing and remarketing; business continuity and related consulting services; technology integration; and network services. Revenue for fiscal year ended September 30, 1995, totaled $2.2 billion. Disaster Recovery Services revenue totaled $267 million. Comdisco's World Wide Web address is (http://www.comdisco.com). Comdisco and ComPAS are registered trademarks and Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services is a registered servicemark of Comdisco, Inc. The Vulnerability Index is a servicemark of Comdisco, Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. NOTE TO EDITORS: The e-mail address below should contain an "at" symbol before "comdisco.com". It is possible this symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Comdisco, Rosemont Mary Moster, 847/518-5147, mcmoster@comdisco.com |
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