Stock100.com is Bullish On Procom's NetFORCE; Company's Network Attached Storage Appliance Chosen By High-Volume Investment Web Site.Business/Technology Editors SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2000 Procom Technology (Nasdaq:PRCM PRCM Power, Reset and Clock Management PRCM Master Chief Parachute Rigger (Naval Rating) PRCM Passive Radiation Countermeasures PRCM Parallel Relay Channel Model ) today announced that Stock100.com has chosen its groundbreaking NetFORCE(TM) Network Attached Storage (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 ) appliance to power file service requests for the high-traffic Stock100.com Web site. Stock100.com is the first company on the Web to offer highly sophisticated yet easy-to-use investment intelligence tools for professional and individual investors. The Stock100.com site features a five-day forecast on all major U.S. markets and validates the impressive accuracy of its forecasts by posting the results. By standardizing the NetFORCE to handle all file I/O Input/Output operations such as open, close, read, write and append, all of which deal with standard disk or tape files. The term would be used to refer to regular file operations in contrast to low-level system I/O such as dealing with virtual memory pages or OS tables of contents. operations for its Web site, Stock100.com is part of a growing trend among e-businesses and ISPs to relocate file service operations from Web servers to dedicated appliances in order to deliver faster and more reliable Web site performance and an improved Internet experience for site visitors. Procom's NetFORCE has performed flawlessly for Stock100.com, providing high-speed file access for 12,000 registered users who generate more than 500,000 requests on the site each day. Adding the NetFORCE filer to the company's Web site infrastructure adds an extra level of reliability to ensure that the company's customers have uninterrupted access to the vital forecasts and investment tools the company offers, said Bijan R. Kian, President and Chief Executive Officer of Stock100.com, who added that the NetFORCE has functioned exactly as expected with no problems and perfect reliability. "We feel great about it," said Kian. "We considered other Network Attached Storage devices but decided NetFORCE was the best product for us. The NetFORCE capabilities matched our needs, especially for reliability, which was of utmost importance for us. We need to have that reliability factor that NetFORCE provides. For any mission critical operation such as ours, it's an absolute must." In addition to Procom's reliability factor, NetFORCE enjoys other NAS benefits that e-businesses value, such as scalability, stability, speed, shareability and simplicity. NetFORCE minimizes downtime when adding capacity and can recover easily from hardware failures. It provides sustained throughput, offers resource sharing on a cross-platform basis and ease of management. A recent report by the GartnerGroup said that there are significant and immediate total cost of ownership benefits to Internet-based businesses that employ network attached storage. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report, NAS devices "provide plug-and-play simplicity without commanding a premium in price." And with the explosion of online companies 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. the benefits that NAS devices offer, the future growth of the market promises to expand. International Data Corporation predicts that the number of NAS units shipped will grow from 109,000 in 1999 to more than 1 million in 2003, with an increase in revenue from $781 million to approximately $6.7 billion during the same time period. Stock100.com produces forecast information on more than 3,000 of the most commonly traded securities on the U.S. stock exchanges on a daily basis. Stock100.com's highly accurate forecasting is the result of a breakthrough technology based on proprietary predicative pred·i·cate v. pred·i·cat·ed, pred·i·cat·ing, pred·i·cates v.tr. 1. To base or establish (a statement or action, for example): I predicated my argument on the facts. algorithms. In addition to the sophisticated forecasting tools, the site offers a broad menu of both free and subscription services to registered users, with specific products designed for institutional fund managers as well as for the consumer market and individual investors. Procom Technology's revolutionary NetFORCE is a plug-and-play high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. network storage appliance that delivers high performance, high reliability and low cost of ownership. With the NetFORCE, Procom has established a new standard for affordability and ease of use in NAS devices, with models available for as low as 10 cents per megabyte. NetFORCE offers the very latest in NAS technology with very fast and highly reliable storage management software and full fault-tolerant hardware design -- including RAID-5 plus hot spare disk architecture -- required for high-volume, transaction intensive Web environments such as Stock100.com. NetFORCE is designed to exceed customer requirements for 24x7 data delivery responsibilities. About Procom Technology Procom Technology is a pioneer in the development of Network Attached Storage (NAS) products and technology. The Company has leveraged its position as market leader in CD-caching appliances to address the needs of workgroup and enterprise applications, including ISPs and e-business. Procom appliances feature proprietary, embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. for seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of NAS into all major networking environments. Technological breakthroughs include a plug-and-play protected data appliance for workgroups, plus "virtual zero downtime" symmetric fault In power engineering, specifically three phase power, a symmetric or balanced fault is a fault which affects each of the three phases equally. This is in contrast to an asymmetric fault, where each of the phases is not affected equally. tolerance for enterprise filers. Major corporations and government agencies worldwide using Procom appliances for access to network-stored data include AT&T, Coca Cola Noun 1. Coca Cola - Coca Cola is a trademarked cola Coke cola, dope - carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States) , DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Pfizer, Xerox, GE, CitiGroup, Merrill Lynch, Pacific Bell, Sprint, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , the United States Air Force United States Air Force (USAF) Major component of the U.S. military organization, with primary responsibility for air warfare, air defense, and military space research. It also provides air services in coordination with the other military branches. U.S. and the Department of Defense. The Company is headquartered at 1821 East Dyer Road, Santa Ana, CA 92705-5700, and can be reached by phone at 949/852-1000; by fax at 949/852-1221; by email: info@procom.com; or on the Internet at http://www.procom.com. Procom is publicly traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "PRCM." |
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