IBM BROADENS NETVISTA FAMILY WITH NEW BUSINESS DESKTOPS.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) announced the new NetVista A Series of desktop business computers, combining new standards for simplicity, ease of use, and smaller footprints with the security and manageability features required by large enterprise businesses. The new NetVista A Series is designed for large and medium-sized enterprises in segments such as retail, health care and banking that require highly managed computers with proven processor and chip technologies; stable, unchanging un·chang·ing adj. Remaining the same; showing or undergoing no change: unchanging weather patterns; unchanging friendliness. platforms for long-term deployments; and a secure network environment. The NetVista A20, A40 and A40p models provide new mainstream business choices for a NetVista family that already includes X Series all-in-one computers See all-in-one. , S Series legacy-free devices, and N Series Thin Client network computers. Of interest to many business customers is a relatively new IBM manageability tool called Rapid Restore, available as a free download for NetVista A Series customers. In response to the most commonly experienced system failures, the Rapid Restore software will, through a hidden partition of the hard drive, allow a PC to be quickly restored to its original software configuration. Rapid Restore is just one of the many manageability tools IBM provides for its business PCs. NetVista A Series desktops include small, slim form-factor designs that free up desk space; covers and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). adapter cards See adapter and expansion board. that can be removed and replaced without tools for faster, easier configuration and modification; and hinged "cages" that simplify the removal and replacement of floppy drives See floppy disk. floppy drive - disk drive , hard drives and CD-ROMs. They also add "Access IBM" keys that provide rapid access to help, service and support, product information and software tools. Another feature allows for software recovery even if software disks have been lost. This feature includes a separate, hidden partition on the hard drive holding software recovery files, and eliminates the need for building a recovery diskette The official name for the floppy disk. See floppy disk. diskette - floppy disk or reconfiguring the system to boot first from a particular drive. |
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