Defense Information Systems Agency Selects Evaluator Group Database.DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 1998-- DISA 1. (body) DISA - Defense Information Systems Agency. 2. (standard) DISA - Data Interchange Standards Association. is First Federal Agency to Use On-Line Database Noun 1. on-line database - (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers computer database, electronic database, electronic information service to Help in Disk Vendor Selection Evaluator Group, a Denver-based computer industry analysis organization, announced today that the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will become the first Federal agency to use its Evaluator Series On-Line (ES/OL) database. ES/OL provides worldwide access to technical information about enterprise storage subsystems and their manufacturers, as well as objective opinions of industry experts. It is designed to provide computer storage purchasers and vendors with ready access to the most up-to-date information needed to compare alternative product offerings. ES/OL is organized in a multiple-level hierarchy to enable a "peel the onion" method of access to increasingly detailed levels of information. All documents are stored in Adobe Acrobat Document exchange software from Adobe that allows documents to be displayed and printed the same on every computer. The Acrobat system created the Portable Document Format (PDF), which is widely used in commercial printing and on the Web. See PDF. PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. format. The database contains information about disk products from Amdahl, Compaq, Data General, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Hewlett Packard, Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , 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) , Storage Technology, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Symbios, Inc. DISA has subscribed to the ES/OL service to provide decision support information about competitors' on-line storage products. The service went "live" on August 20th for DISA personnel. "In the highly competitive, fast-changing enterprise storage market, it is vital for us to stay as current as possible. ES/OL supplements our research capability and enables us to remain up to date with vendor changes within 24 hours, thereby enabling us to define our requirements to take advantage of the latest technology," 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. G. Kevin Schultz, Manager of Acquisition Requirements for DISA's SMART Consolidation Program. "In addition, we have access to Evaluator Group's extensive library and knowledge." "ES/OL is an extension of our popular family of Evaluator Series product publications and seminars used by most major vendors and a growing number of sophisticated users," said Jack Scott, Evaluator Group's Managing Partner. "The material is more focused and detailed than that available from any other organization. Structuring it the way we have and putting it on the Web solves a number of problems for vendors and users. Not everyone needs the same level of detail, and now anyone with access privileges, anywhere in the Web-world, can see the same very current information. This is something that can best be outsourced because product analysis is difficult and very expensive to do in house." ES/OL is available for vendors now. It will be generally available for users in September. About Evaluator Group Evaluator Group is a Denver-based industry analysis organization that specializes in on-line storage subsystems including data management software. Evaluator Group publishes The Evaluator Series product publications and conducts seminars for users and vendors. In addition, the company provides The Evaluator Series announcement analyses of significant disk announcements for most of the large U.S. vendors and a variety of white papers on disk-related subjects. For more information about Evaluator Group, please visit its website at http://www.evaluatorgroup.com. Evaluator Series and ES/OL are trademarks owned by Evaluator Group, Inc. All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies.
CONTACT: Evaluator Group Inc.
Jack Scott, 303/221-7867
Jack@evaluatorgroup.com
or
Defense Information Systems Agency
G. Kevin Schultz, 303/676-1776
schultzk@den.disa.mil
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