Covenant Hospice Deploys Winternals Enterprise Recovery and Defragmentation Solutions; Winternals Products Selected to Optimize IT Infrastructure, Improve Service Levels.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2004 Winternals Software, a leading provider of Microsoft systems infrastructure availability and performance solutions, today announced that Covenant Hospice, one of the largest and most comprehensive not-for-profit hospices in the nation, has chosen Winternals Recovery Manager and Defrag Manager to reduce time to recovery, prevent data loss, boost system performance and improve service response times on Windows-based systems. The Covenant Hospice system encompasses 16 sites in two states, emphasizing quality medical care for patients with life-limiting illnesses. "Our goal for IT is to provide an exceptional level of service and response to the end-users, in as transparent a manner as possible," states Scott Touzet, director of information services See Information Systems. at Covenant Hospice. "I've received so many comments from the staff saying that they have never before worked with such an efficient IS department. It takes a great team to merit such accolades, but it also takes the right tools. These products from Winternals benefit both our department internally and the entire organization." Covenant Hospice is deploying Recovery Manager to speed time to recovery on mission-critical computers that have 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. requirements. Defrag Manager is being deployed at multiple Covenant Hospice locations to boost application and system performance, and reduce the systems maintenance workload for IT staff. Recovery Manager is an automated, remote recovery solution for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4, 2000, XP and Server 2003 systems. It fills the gap in traditional backup and recovery by restoring computer operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. to a previously known good state, quickly and easily, without impacting the critical data that resides on each machine. Recovery Manager provides rapid, centralized system In telecommunications, a centralized system is one in which most communications are routed through one or more major central hubs. Such a system allows certain functions to be concentrated in the system's hubs, freeing up resources in the peripheral units. recovery with zero data loss -- as an alternative to time-consuming and cumbersome disk imaging or tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. procedures. Defrag Manager remotely schedules, deploys, monitors and controls defragmentation See defragment. throughout any-sized Windows network A local area network (LAN) made up of Windows clients and servers. Starting with Windows for Workgroups 3.1 in 1992, all versions of Windows have built-in networking. See Windows and NetBEUI network. from a single console -- without manual installation on client systems. It sends a low-system-overhead defrag agent to each client 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. schedules that the systems administrator designates. The agent utilizes a proprietary defragmentation algorithm that automatically completes the defrag process, and then removes itself from each system. Factors influencing the purchase were the proactive nature and transparent operation of Recovery Manager and Defrag Manager to the end-users. "If you're in an environment where all you're doing is putting out fires, rebuilding servers or reactively responding to user issues, then you're never going to have time to invest in areas that benefit the company long term," Touzet said. "Winternals' enterprise solutions give me the satisfaction of knowing that I am proactively optimizing the IT environment to prevent system problems and performance inefficiencies, before our users even notice that there is an issue." About Covenant Hospice Based in Pensacola, Fla., Covenant Hospice is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate com·pas·sion·ate adj. 1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane. 2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: services to patients, their families and their loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl during times of life-limiting illnesses. In operation since 1984, Covenant Hospice has grown at a rate of approximately 35 percent annually for more than five years. For more information see www.covenanthospice.org. About Winternals Founded in 1996, Winternals is a leading provider of systems infrastructure availability and performance solutions for Microsoft-based enterprises worldwide. Winternals solutions empower IT professionals to rapidly resolve the daily emergencies that arise when administering Windows systems and maintain high availability of mission critical systems. By accelerating recovery, improving data integrity, increasing productivity and optimizing performance, Winternals reduces the total cost of ownership for the Microsoft-based enterprise. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Winternals counts among its customers 48 of the Fortune 50 and 95 of the Fortune 100. For more information on Winternals visit www.winternals.com. |
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