Diamond Head Ships Tempest Storage Management Server; New Server Provides Unprecedented Scalability and Performance with Tight Windows NT Integration.RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1998--Diamond Head Software, Inc. announced today commercial shipment of its new Tempest Storage Management Server for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT. The Tempest Server provides high performance storage management and retrieval services for information management applications. The Tempest Server addresses the need for fault-tolerant storage management that is natively integrated with 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. 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 and vertical software applications and intelligently manages combinations of magnetic and optical storage. "The Tempest storage management server is designed to address the many storage issues that are encountered by IT departments as they move to scale up their NT-based line of business and document management solutions," said Bill Burke, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Diamond Head. "Tempest is much more than an archiving solution -- it intelligently manages multiple data types on different media, providing high levels of data integrity, performance, and fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. . As corporations move towards larger NT and SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. based information management systems, they need the confidence that a well architected, wrap around data management system can offer. We also expect Tempest to have great appeal for vertical developers using products like the FileNET IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. server since Tempest's price/performance characteristics are much better." Windows NT Integration Diamond Head has a strong history of providing developers with the components they need to build highly efficient, custom solutions and the Tempest Server furthers that tradition. 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 such as FileNet's Image Management Services. The Tempest Server fully supports Windows NT's Performance Monitor and Event Logger, 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 advanced features that customers have expected only from much 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 and enterprise systems with up to 25,000 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." Fault Tolerance The Tempest Server was designed to ensure consistent reliability by supporting full server mirroring. Server mirroring allows two servers that are each supporting a group of users to replicate their documents to each other without a significant loss of system performance. This mirroring process is designed to be completely transparent to the user and results in complete, real-time replication of all documents between the servers. In the event that a media element or server fails, the mirrored server automatically reacts to satisfy document requests until the media can be replaced or restored from the mirrored server. Application Integration In keeping with Diamond Head's mission to provide high-level components for the document imaging and workflow markets, the Tempest Server is easily integrated into client applications using a 32-bit 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. . The Tempest Server can be integrated with legacy systems on existing mainframes or minicomputers, or with any client-server system 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 utilizing Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. or other leading databases. Integration has been achieved with PC DOCS' DOCS Open, and other leading products. Availability The Tempest Server is available through Diamond Head Software, or through Law Cypress. It will support clients running under any version of Windows; Windows 3.x Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
About Diamond Head Diamond Head Software, Inc. is the industry's leading provider of programming tools and foundation applications for document imaging, document management, COLD, storage management and workflow applications, and is the only imaging vendor that is a Microsoft Enterprise Development Partner The Diamond Head solution, marketed as the ImageBASIC development environment, has been named Product of the Year by Imaging Magazine for the past four years, and has been licensed by more than 1,500 corporate and government developers, OEMs, system integrators and vertical software developers. Diamond Head has been chosen to supply ActiveX Controls to leading companies including 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) , Hewlett-Packard, BancTec, PC DOCS and others. The company is headquartered in Richardson, Texas, 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. CONTACT: Diamond Head Software, Inc., Richardson William Burke, 972/479-9205 E-mail: bburke@dhs.com |
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