Diamond Head's Tempest Server Version 2.1 to be Used to Store Over Twenty Million Images.RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999-- Radian's Deployment of Tempest Proves that it is Highly Suitable for Production Imaging System Diamond Head Software, the industry leader in software components for document imaging, workflow, document management and storage management, today announced the deployment of version 2.1 of its Tempest Storage Management Server 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. to support a system with over twenty million images. The Tempest Server provides high performance storage management and retrieval services for document imaging and document management applications. The Tempest Server addresses the need for fault-tolerant storage management that is natively integrated with Windows NT, and which can scale from departments all the way to enterprises with tens of thousands of users across the enterprise. It provides easy integration with customized solutions, vertical software applications, and several EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM. EDM - Electronic Data Management applications. It also works off-the-shelf with DOCS Open from PC DOCS, an industry leader in document management, and it has also been integrated with DOCSFusion 3.0, which is scheduled to ship next year. "The demand for Tempest has exceeded our projections because integrators and ISV's who have used drive letter interface products, have immediately recognized the features and performance advantages that we offer over these other products," says William L. Burke William Lionel Burke (b. 1941 July 5, d. 1996 July 22) was an astronomy, astrophysics, and physics professor at UC Santa Cruz. He is also the author of Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology (ISBN 0-935702-01-6), and of Applied differential geometry , president of Diamond Head Software. "When Tempest is deployed with DOCS Open, or with a custom imaging or EDM application, the integrated system quickly and cost-effectively solves the needs of users that formerly required an expensive 'production imaging' system." Radian ra·di·an n. Abbr. rad A unit of angular measure equal to the angle subtended at the center of a circle by an arc equal in length to the radius of the circle. International Lauds Lauds is one of the two "major hours" in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. It is to be recited in the early morning hours, preferably near dawn. Structure of the hour Superior Performance And Ease Of Administration Radian International is one of the first companies to deploy Tempest in a production setting. It is using Tempest to provide very efficient storage management services See SMS. (storage) Storage Management Services - (SMS) Software that enables network administrators to route backup data from various devices on a network to another device such as a server or a magnetic tape backup unit. for a DOCS Open system that is in use by the Department of Real Estate of a Western state. Radian is in the process of converting an existing A.B. Dick microfiche Pronounced "micro-feesh." A 4x6" sheet of film that holds several hundred miniaturized document pages. See micrographics. system with over twenty million images, into a DOCS Open /Tempest system. "Tempest is the only storage management product available with the features and performance that would help our client succeed," says Ken Hill, Director of Radian's Solution Integration Group. "This installation demonstrates that a document management system with integrated storage management capabilities can solve image management issues of statewide proportions." Windows NT Integration The Tempest Server takes full advantage of the Windows NT operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and is implemented as a native NT Service, providing security at the console and tight integration with Windows NT not found in other optical servers. The Tempest Server fully supports Windows NT's Performance Monitor and Event Viewer Event Viewer is a component of Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems that lets administrators and users view the event logs on a local or remote machine. With Windows Vista, the event system was overhauled and renamed to Windows Event Log. , providing the network administrator with standard Windows NT tools for monitoring the server's activities and logging of all error events. The Tempest Server offers the price and open systems advantages of a Windows NT-based system with the scalability and advanced features that customers have expected only from FileNET and similarly higher priced solutions. Scalability Diamond Head employs technologies such as server clustering See clustering. and intelligent, dynamic data management techniques to dramatically increase the number of concurrent users that can access the server. The Tempest Server is appropriate for departments with 50 users or can be configured to support enterprise systems with tens of thousands of users. "The demand for scalable, distributed image and electronic document storage management is increasing dramatically as companies deploy compound document management services across business functions," said David Yockelson, vice president of META Group. "Diamond Head's Tempest Server addresses this requirement while leveraging NT platform features and ImageBASIC's robust customizability." Tempest Integration with DOCS Open Creates FileNET Panagon Competitor Working closely together with PC DOCS, Diamond Head has natively integrated Tempest with DOCS Open v.3.7.2. The combination of DOCS Open, DOCS Imaging (developed by Diamond Head for PC DOCS using its ImageBASIC development environment) and Tempest not only is a direct competitor to FileNET's Panagon IDM (1) See identity management. (2) (Integrated Device Manufacturer) A company that performs every step of the chip-making process, including design, manufacture, test and packaging. Examples of IDMs are Intel, AMD, Motorola, IBM, TI and Lucent. Services and Panagon Document Services, it offers functionality not available from FileNET now or in the foreseeable future. For example, Tempest provides storage management services for both electronic documents and digitized documents, and both are managed by a single index, DOCS Open. Panagon IDM has an index for image documents and manages optical jukeboxes. Panagon Document Services uses an entirely different index to manage electronic documents, and does not support optical jukeboxes. With DOCS Open / Tempest there is a single unified system. Doculabs Declares Tempest Sets Benchmark for Performance and Architecture Doculabs, an independent analyst firm based in Chicago, published a report on Near Line Storage in May 1998. In this report, Doculabs evaluated and compared Tempest with other market leaders in the storage management arena. Of the vendors that participated in the study (including Optical Technology Group and Micro Design International), Doculabs determined that Tempest set the benchmark in the areas of architecture and performance. In one test scenario A set of test cases that ensure that the business process flows are tested from end to end. They may be independent tests or a series of tests that follow each other, each dependent on the output of the previous one. The terms "test scenario" and "test case" are often used synonymously. measuring performance with 10 concurrent users on the system retrieving 1 MB files, Tempest took 1 minute seconds, OTG (1) See USB OTG. (2) (The OBJECTive Technology Group, Ltd., Alexandria, VA) An organization that was devoted to distributed computing and object technology. Founded in 1994, it augmented the object and Internet standards community and served as an intermediary between DiskExtender took 5 minutes 0.16 seconds and MDI's SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. Express for NT took 8 minutes 6.29 seconds. Tempest was also the only product in the study that successfully completed a 20-client scenario without the aid of caching." Tempest represents a significant step forward both in the size of systems that can be efficiently supported under Windows NT, and the levels of performance that can be achieved using optical jukeboxes as near-line storage," Says Dhaval Joshi, analyst at Doculabs. The complete Tempest section from the Doculabs report and various comparison charts are available for download from Diamond Head's Web site: www.dhs.com. The complete Doculabs report is available directly from Doculabs: www.doculabs.com. Diamond Head Targets ISV's and Integrators Who Have Used Other Products Tempest was developed to meet the needs of developers who require the fastest performing, and most highly scalable storage management services, in a package that is easily integrated into their custom vertical solutions. Many ISV's and systems integrators who have previously used drive letter emulation products are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a product like Tempest that addresses and solves the limitations that drive letter products share: inability to natively integrate with applications, poor and inconsistent performance, plus the inability to scale to large numbers of users on the same NT server. Tempest offers native integration with custom solutions using an ActiveX Control A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It enables a program to add functionality by calling ready-made components that blend in and appear as normal parts of the program. or DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. , provides superior security at the file and folder level and is massively scalable. Diamond Head has instituted a Tempest 911 Program in conjunction with its distributor, Law Cypress, offering high levels of support, integration and customization services, to system integrators currently in trouble with a project that has significant storage management requirements. Pricing and Availability Tempest 2.1 is available now from authorized distributors and resellers, and from Diamond Head Software directly. Tempest 2.1 is priced in accordance with the amount of storage that is being managed; there is no separate client access license. Tempest Server costs $7.500 and includes support for up to 100 GB of storage. The Tempest Development Toolkit costs $5,000 and includes the ActiveX Controls necessary to integrate Tempest into custom applications. The Tempest Toolkit also includes a jukebox A storage device for multiple sets of CD-ROMs, DVDs, tape cartridges or disk modules. Using carousels, robot arms and other methods, a jukebox physically moves the storage medium from its assigned location to an optical or magnetic station for reading and writing. emulator that enables users to test Tempest with their application without an optical jukebox. Future releases will add support for large tape libraries, distributed cache management and advanced RAID management. About Diamond Head Diamond Head Software, Inc. is the industry's leading provider of ActiveX Controls, customizable applications and storage management solutions for document imaging, document management, COLD, and workflow. Diamond Head's ImageBASIC development environment has been named Product of the Year by Imaging Magazine four years in a row, and has been used to develop applications currently in use by over 200,000 users. The company is headquartered in Richardson, Texas Richardson is a suburb in Dallas County and Collin County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 91,803, while according to a 2006 estimate, the population had grown to 99,200. , and has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and California. About Radian Radian International LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control provides an array of integration services and technologies to industries and governments worldwide. For more information about the project described in this release, please contact Radian Solutions Integration Group -- Ken Hill at 423/220-8120 or via e-mail at ken_hill@radian.com. Note to Editors: Tempest is a trademark of Diamond Head Software, Inc. Other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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