IBackup.com Releases a Suite of Products and Services Aimed at Net Enabling Standard Office Applications, Extending the Scope and Meaning of ASP.Business Editors WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept 28, 2001 IBackup (http://www.ibackup.com), a division of Pro Softnet Corp., has released a suite of products and services aimed at net enabling standard office applications extending the scope and meaning of ASP. IBackup is a Web Based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. Online Storage, Collaboration and Sharing services provider. IBackup's desktop tools now include IBDrive, an advanced form of network drive technology implementation that maps users IBackup space as a network drive. What differentiates IBDrive from competing Network Drive implementations is its ability to do concurrent operations using standard office applications. Now common business office applications such as Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Access, Excel and others can be used to seamlessly access and execute concurrent operations on files stored on IBackup accounts. IBackup.com also offers an advanced form of IBDrive that can be used to net enable advanced office applications such as QuickBooks or ACT!2000 with multi-user options. In addition, IBackup.com's professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. division offers custom solutions to net enable advanced database based applications. A special customized version of IBDrive even supports streaming. Businesses would find this feature very valuable, combining the ease of network drive and streaming technology instead of a browser based interface. Businesses could use this to 'push' multimedia broadcast messages directly onto users' desktops. "'Net Enabling' of standard office applications is a relatively new field, and IBackup has made more advancements than anyone else in this field proving the technology leadership of IBackup in the Web Based Storage arena," said Raghu Kulkarni, president and Chief Execute Officer of Pro Softnet Corp. Now users can use their familiar desktop applications and simply net enable them using IBDrive. Net enabling technologies are expected to gain popularity as the cost of Bandwidth goes down, and at least for simpler office applications, IBDrive provides a great alternative to the traditional ASPs with a key advantage, the users knowledge of the applications. IBackup's storage costs are significantly less compared to a standard ASP. Also, since the applications used such as Access, Excel and QuickBooks have been around for a long time, they are more mature and bug free compared to the newer ASP based applications. "Net enabling standard office applications is a clear ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). winner as long as you have a high Bandwidth Connectivity," said Raghu Kulkarni. In addition, IBackup has updated its IBCM IBCM International Bathymetric Chart of the Mediterranean IBCM India Bible Camp Ministries IBCM Infiniband Communications Manager (IBackup Content Management) offering and now supports HTTP, FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to , SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. , CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. , WEBDAV and WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. protocols, and customers can now choose all or a combination of tools using these protocols to access data. IBCM is a licensable form of IBackup's storage offering and is targeted towards businesses and ISPs. With its range of services and products, the IBCM offering clearly beats out rival offerings from Oracle (Oracle IFS) and Xythos in speed, performance and features. About IBackup IBackup is a division of Pro Softnet Corp., a software consulting and SSP (1) (Service Switching Point) The local exchange node in an SS7 telephone network. The SSP can be part of the voice switch or in a separate computer connected to it. on the Internet, based in Woodland Hills. Pro Softnet Corp. was established in April 1995 and has successfully executed software consulting assignments for many Fortune 100 companies. IBackup is the technology leader in providing an open, highly customizable secure backup, data storage, access and data sharing solution with several possible interfaces and options to backup, retrieve and manipulate data on the Web, using any Web-enabled device. Contact: Pro Softnet Corp., Woodland Hills, Calif. 91367, IBackup Division, 21300 Victory Blvd., Suite 1230 Raghu Kulkarni, 818/594-5972, Ext. 104. E-mail: publicrelations@pro-softnet.com. |
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