ECCS Completes Largest Segment of Army Personnel Data Storage System.Business Editors TINTON FALLS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2001 ECCS ECCS abbr. emergency core cooling system , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ECCS) today announced the successful completion of the largest segment of U. S. Army's new data storage system for personnel records, in an integrated system that provides for significant cost savings and direct control by government personnel. The 3.6 TB installation at Fort Benjamin Harrison Fort Benjamin Harrison was a U.S. Army post located on the northeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana, named for the 23rd United States President Benjamin Harrison. Land was purchased in 1903, with the post officially being named for President Harrison in honor of Indianapolis being (Indianapolis, IN) for enlisted personnel records is the latest successful implementation of the Army's new Personnel Electronic Records Management System (PERMS perms permissions PERMS Personnel Electronic Records Management System PERMS Process & Effluent Radiological Monitoring System PERMS Planning Execution Resources Monitoring System PERMS Personnel Election Records Management System ), which utilizes ECCS' Synchronix(TM) fully redundant RAID data storage engines. The three operating installations - the Enlisted Records Evaluation Center (Indianapolis, IN) for enlisted personnel; the National Guard Bureau (Arlington, VA) for National Guard officers; and the Management Service Records for Army officers (Alexandria, VA) - store a total of 5.6 TB of data. "ECCS succeeded with a truly massive challenge - assisting us with this highly complex system that's so vital for maintaining and the safeguarding of Army personnel information," said James Riggs, Program Manager, PERMS Office, Personnel Command, U. S. Army. "A lot of people need fast, trouble-free access to this data, perhaps as many as 500,000 soldiers and individual support agencies, in order to process the records and assist our Army personnel who served or are still serving their country so courageously." "Our successful implementation of this large data storage network for the Army is especially important because of the fault-tolerant need to access this data," said Gregg M. Azcuy, 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. of ECCS. "Our data storage engines have to store, protect and make these vital service records available in the most secure and cost effective way. We succeeded because of the dependability of our Synchronix(TM) appliances, the expertise of our service organization, and the effectiveness of our technology." The Synchronix(TM)'s NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular Star(TM) 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. delivers key user advantages: The operating system's Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) An open standard for backing up data in a heterogeneous environment. Developed by Network Appliance and IntelliGuard Software, NDMP uses a common data format which is written to and read from drivers for the specific disk and ) provides for rapid data backup and restore and direct tape-to-disk backup for disaster recovery; and the NAS Star(TM) operating system's Automatic Network Processor Failover (ANPF) module delivers full redundancy with automatic failover, with no downtime. The Army is using the ECCS systems to enhance data protection and accessibility. The personnel records are converted from paper files by scanner and from optical platters in large media libraries to disk format for faster, easier and less expensive access to the data. Then, the ECCS Synchronix(TM) RAID storage engines make the data easily available to agencies, like Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. and the Department of Education, and to the military personnel themselves. The ECCS systems deliver two additional advantages for the Army: Users have the option of maintaining ECCS appliances with their own personnel, granting the Army cost savings, independence of operation and the ability to train its personnel in key high-tech areas; and the ECCS systems can operate in different environments, such as 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. , Windows 2000, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and the http web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , which grants greater flexibility and means military personnel can view their own personnel records on the world wide web. "ECCS has worked successfully with the Army and other military branches to meet expanding and increasingly critical requirements," said Azcuy. "Now, as our military moves forward to be upgraded and further modernized, ECCS will be there, ready to serve in any way possible." ECCS, Inc., an innovative high-technology company based in Tinton Falls, NJ, serves e-commerce, major corporate, government, and other customers by supplying fault-tolerant systems Fault-tolerant systems Systems, predominantly computing and computer-based systems, which tolerate undesired changes in their internal structure or external environment. and software that store, protect, and manage data in complex networks with greater ease and cost savings. ECCS data storage systems - including Synchronix 1000(TM), Synchronix 2000(TM), Synchronix 2500(TM), Synchronix 3000(TM), Synchronix SAN(TM) and the Synchronection 2(TM) systems - are modular units that can be tailored and stacked to meet customer's specific and expanding data storage requirements. This release contains forward-looking statements under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could vary materially. Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially include, but are not limited to: component quality and availability, changes in business conditions, changes in ECCS' sales strategy and product development plans, changes in the data storage or network marketplace, competition between ECCS and other companies that may be entering the data storage host/network attached markets, competitive pricing pressures, continued market acceptance of ECCS' open systems products, delays in the development of new technology, changes in customer buying patterns, one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time-to-time in ECCS' filings at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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