Corporate Profile for Cambex, dated Feb. 16, 1996.available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine, CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published date: Feb. 16, 1996 Company name: Cambex Corp.
Address: 360 Second Ave.
Waltham, MA 02154
Telephone No.: 617/890-6000 Chief Executive Officer: Joseph F. Kruy Chief Financial Officer & Public Relations Contact: Sheldon M. Schenkler Business number: 617/890-6000 x241 Investor Relations Contact: Pamela Piantedosi Business number: 617/890-6000 x243 Trading symbol: Nasdaq: CBEX Company description: Cambex Corp. is a leading supplier of direct access storage products used with IBM mainframe and client/server computers. The company's products include memory and RAID disk arrays employed by users in their highest performance 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) computing environment. The company's commitment to excellence includes ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9002 certification. The Cambex Cascade Array DASD (Direct Access Storage Device) Pronounced "daz-dee." A peripheral device that is directly addressable, such as a disk or drum. The term is used in the mainframe world. DASD - Direct-Access Storage Device enables mainframe users to store more data easily, safely and with unparalleled reliability and operating flexibility. The Cascade array operates transparently, attaching to IBM 3990 Storage Control units and is an ideal alternative to IBM's RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) The first hard disk computer, introduced by IBM in 1956. All 50 of its 24" platters held a total of five million characters! RAMAC was half computer, half tabulator. Array DASD. For clients/servers, the Centurion line of RAID disk arrays and DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. tape backup products are suitable for implementing massively parallel mainframe-class applications in clustered processing and multi-platform environments. The most recent product combines mainframe and client/server storage in a single unit. Cascade XE (cross enterprise) simultaneously attaches to IBM mainframe 3990 disk controllers and open systems, including IBM RS/6000, SUN SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and Hewlett Packard. The mainframe and open systems environments operate independently, being isolated through a "firewall," ensuring data security and integrity. For the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 1995, revenues were $35.2 million, with a net loss of $9.9 million. The stock trading range was 3-3/8 - 13. CONTACT: Cambex Corp. |
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