Sutmyn Increases Customer Benefits With New Enhancements To Its Library Management Software.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1998--

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- LMS/ACS(tm) feature delivers DFSMS(R) extensions for Automatic

Class Selection routines, allowing a single point of control for

tape resources.

- New CacheXpander(tm) increases amounts of effective Scimitar/VTS

Tape Cache, enabling users to gain improved VTS efficiency at any

given cache size.

Sutmyn Storage Corporation (Sutmyn) today announced a series of new features for its Library Management Software (LMS(R)) Release 3.4, for use with the Scimitar(R)/Virtual Tape Server (VTS) and automated tape libraries (ATL). These new features will enable customers to leverage their existing IT investment, while obtaining the superior performance and added capabilities of Virtual Tape. These enhancements to LMS provide improved transition ease, user control options, tape cache migration, and various other features that support additional flexibility for systems administrators to direct data to Virtual Tape. LMS Release 3.4 will begin shipping in the first quarter of 1999.

With the release of LMS 3.4, Sutmyn offers LMS/ACS, an optional feature that provides users with DFSMS extensions for ACS routines to direct data set allocation requests for both Virtual and ATL environments. Sutmyn's new LMS/ACS feature provides DFSMS users with the added benefit of utilizing their existing investment in ACS routines, while obtaining the benefits of LMS and Scimitar/VTS Virtual Tape solutions. As a result, customers gain a single point of control for tape resources and an easy transition from TMM to virtual tape.

Additionally, LMS Release 3.4 now includes CacheXpander, a feature that increases the amount of effective Scimitar/VTS tape cache by utilizing more sophisticated cache control and migration algorithms. The CacheXpander feature provides customers with the benefits of: user-selectable parameters to control default tape cache migration operations, effective utilization of Scimitar/VTS tape cache and a simple user interface that prevents the unwanted migration of key data sets. Users will see dramatic improvements in performance with LMS Release 3.4, as important data remains resident in cache.

"While we continue to enhance our Virtual Tape offerings, Sutmyn continues to pursue the goal to allow users to reap more benefits from Virtual Tape technology easier than ever before," said Flavio Santoni, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Sutmyn Storage Corporation. "These latest LMS software enhancements showcase our commitment and delivery on our promise and continue to make LMS the leader in ease of use, scalability, performance and customer satisfaction."

Scimitar 2000(tm) is a family of virtual tape storage solutions that provides the image of multiple tape drives and allows enterprise data to be recorded and retrieved at disk speeds while conforming to standard tape protocol. Scimitar is the world's only virtual tape solution that is fully interoperable, working with any MVS-defined cartridge tape and/or robotics technologies currently installed at customer sites and supporting a choice of best-of-breed disk storage from leading disk suppliers.

LMS is the recognized worldwide leader in library management software and the premier automation software for Fujitsu-manufactured Automated Tape Libraries (ATL) and the Sutmyn Scimitar 2000 Virtual Tape Server family. LMS is an MVS host based program that provides a comprehensive set of key functions that facilitate the installation, customization, initialization, optimization, operation and management of the Scimitar 2000 family of virtual tape solutions and traditional ATL solutions.

About Sutmyn

Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, Sutmyn Storage Corporation specializes in providing software-enhanced storage solutions for virtual tape systems. Sutmyn's Scimitar family of products, together with its tape automation software, connect to mainframe and open systems environments. The corporation develops, markets and supports innovative storage solutions backed by technical training, marketing and sales expertise. Sutmyn America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sutmyn Storage Corporation, distributes Sutmyn products as well as tape and tape automation products from Fujitsu and other manufacturers directly in the U.S. and through distributors elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere. Scimitar Virtual Tape Solutions are distributed by Hitachi Data Systems via its direct operations in Denmark, France, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, COMPAREX Informationssysteme GmbH in Germany and all other countries where COMPAREX operates, including South Africa, and by IPM (Internacional Perifericos y Memorias) in Spain and Portugal. Sutmyn partners, Fujitsu Limited(R), a key development and manufacturing partner, and Kanematsu Corporation(R) are also distributors of Sutmyn's products.

Scimitar is a registered trademark and Sutmyn, Scimitar 2000, LMS/ACS and CacheXpander are trademarks of Sutmyn Storage Corporation. All other trademarks and product names are property of their respective owners. Technical data and specifications on the Scimitar family of products and further information about Sutmyn Storage Corporation and Sutmyn America can be found at: http://www.sutmyn.com and http://www.sutmynamerica.com.