DataZONE Signs Agreement with Computacenter; U.K. IT Leader to Promote and Support DataZONE Products in European Market.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2000 DataZONE Corporation, a leading developer of innovative, ruggedized storage peripherals, announced today that it has signed a reseller agreement with Computacenter U.K. Under the terms of the agreement, Computacenter will resell DataZONE products under the PROJECT brand name to European corporate and public sector companies. "Computacenter's expertise in supporting large corporations with all stages of the technology life-cycle and its pan-European network of sales and support staff make it the perfect partner for DataZONE to penetrate the European marketplace," said John Everett, Executive V.P. at DataZONE. "DataZONE products are ideal for our customers who require a solid, high capacity portable storage solution for transferring large amounts of data or simply need to implement an easy-to-use backup system Noun 1. backup system - a computer system for making backups ADP system, ADPS, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system - a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage ," explained Alex Sizeland, PROJECT Product Manager at Computacenter. "And, because the DataBook product is so versatile, we anticipate many new applications and opportunities to arise especially in the telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. and home worker markets." About DataZONE Products DataBook is a rugged, portable hard drive available in capacities of 5 to 30GB that allows users to easily transport large amounts of data, files, and applications in a single, compact footprint. DataBook has been designed to survive a fall from desktop height -- a spec unparalleled by any other storage device! Because it's interface independent, you can transfer the same DataBook from notebook to desktop through a variety of interfaces simply by changing the cable, or slide it into a DataBay 5.25" device bay and transform it into an internal drive in seconds. Primary drive crashed? Don't worry, you can boot from DataBay. Or, use it to boot different 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. on a single PC. DataRAID is the ultimate RAID solution incorporating removable hard drive architecture in a traditional RAID 0 (striping Interleaving or multiplexing data to increase speed. See disk striping. striping - data striping ) or RAID 1 (mirroring) environment. Once the DataRAID components are installed, slide in a DataBook of any capacity and quickly implement a fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. RAID system in any desktop PC. About Computacenter Computacenter is the largest UK-owned IT company that specializes in the provision of client-server systems Client-server system A computing system that is composed of two logical parts: a server, which provides services, and a client, which requests them. The two parts can run on separate machines on a network, allowing users to access powerful server resources and related services to large corporate and public sector organizations in the U.K., France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The company provides its customers with a range of services covering all stages of the technology life cycle, from the planning and requisition A written demand; a formal request or requirement. The formal demand by one government upon another, or by the governor of one state upon the governor of another state, of the surrender of a fugitive from justice. The taking or seizure of property by government. of appropriate technology, through its implementation within an organization's infrastructure, to its subsequent support and management. More information about Computcenter is available at http://www.computacenter.com. About DataZONE Founded in 1998, DataZONE is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. that develops fast, rugged, portable storage solutions that allow users to easily transport large amounts of applications and data from notebook to desktop in a single, compact format through a variety of industry standard interfaces. Its products are used for a variety of applications such as system backup; large file transportation; fast-and-simple storage capacity upgrades; downloading Internet, MP3, and digital files; and data archive. DataZONE partners include 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) , Apple Computer, Dantz Development, Maxtor Network Systems Group, MusicMatch, NovaStor, Phoenix Technologies, Promise Technology, RioPort.com, and Solectron. More information about DataZONE is available at http://www.datazonecorp.com. Note to Editors: All trademarks are registered with their respective companies. |
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