Concord Delivers 'Y2K Weekend' to Optimize Uptime Through the Turn of the Century.MARLBORO Marlboro or Marlborough (märl`bərō), city (1990 pop. 31,813), Middlesex co., E Mass.; settled on the site of a Native American village 1657, inc. as a city 1890. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 1999-- Complete Software and Support Package Detects and Prioritizes Disturbances in the First Few Tense Moments of the New Millennium Concord Communications(R), 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 : CCRD CCRD Colorado Civil Rights Division CCRD Clear Certainty Rundown CCRD Center for Community Research and Development CCRD Climate Change Research Division (US DoE) CCRD Certified Chiropractic Rehabilitation Doctor ), the market leader in next-generation management solutions that ensure effective e-business performance for service providers and enterprise organizations, today announced "Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 Weekend." A complete software and support package, Y2K Weekend polls network and system elements before and immediately after the turn of the century to ensure the availability of business-critical network operations and avoid interruptions in service. The package automatically prioritizes and reports on Y2K-based irregularities for Concord service providers and their customers in the first tense moments following the dawn of the new millennium. Y2K Weekend includes a customized script run on Network Health 4.5 that polls network and system devices worldwide on December 31, 1999 and through 12:15 a.m. January 1, 2000. The key deliverable is an immediate report detailing the status of business-critical elements--long before this information would be available by any other means. Specifically, in the first minutes of the New Year, Y2K Weekend eases the stress of network operations center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. (NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ) staff by evaluating and presenting reports on the status of their enterprises, as well as customer operations. In the event of an outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. , Y2K Weekend enables users to minimize delay by knowing right away if and when traffic was re-routed. In order for Concord's customers to have year-end reporting access for all of their business-critical network operations, Y2K Weekend also includes special pricing on basic licenses for those devices not currently reported on by Network Health. The Y2K Weekend package also features 24x7 customer support over the New Year's weekend as additional insurance against costly delays and to support "business as usual." "Companies need to move quickly to identify any Y2K effects on performance, so Concord has stepped in with immediate reports on the status of their networks in the first few minutes of the New Year to avoid downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. and delays," said Kevin Conklin, vice president of marketing for Concord Communications. "Y2K Weekend ensures that service providers and e-businesses can enjoy high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. as the year ends without expending unnecessary network and administrative resources." Pricing and Availability Y2K Weekend is available immediately and will be offered through December 31 from the Concord Communications worldwide sales force, including agents and selected VARs, and is available on both UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT platforms. About Concord Communications Concord Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCRD) is the market leader in next-generation performance management solutions. With the recent addition of Empire Technologies, Concord offers the only integrated performance management solution spanning systems, applications, services and networks. Only by successfully managing performance across all of these key areas can organizations truly ensure effective e-business. This end-to-end performance view provides the critical insights needed to power day-to-day business and e-commerce operations for some of today's most successful corporations and service providers worldwide. Concord is headquartered in Marlboro, Massachusetts. For more information on Concord, call 1-800-851-8725 or visit Concord's World Wide Web site at http://www.concord.com. The Total View is a trademark, and Concord, the Concord logo and Network Health are registered trademarks of Concord Communications, Inc. |
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