SystemSoft's PCCardAccess Now Listed On Government Services Agency -GSA- Advantage! Site; Productivity Utility for Government IT Professionals.Business/Technology Editors NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2000 SystemSoft Corporation's PCCardAccess(TM), a new software productivity utility for IT professionals, is now listed on the Government Services Agency (GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. ) Advantage! site, www.gsaadvantage.gov, along with many other SystemSoft products and services. The GSA Advantage! site is the official source on the Web for government purchasing, and details special pricing available to purchasing agents for the federal government. More than one million products and services can be purchased directly through this site. Besides PCCardAccess(TM), other SystemSoft Windows(R) utility products and product/services bundles listed on the GSA Advantage! site, include: CardWizard(TM), Plug and Play connectivity for PC Cards; PowerProfiler/SE(TM), complete power management for notebooks running in the 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. environment; and SmartMonitor-Plus(TM), Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) to scan any IDE hard drive and report potential disk failure so users can back up data. PCCardAccess(TM), and other SystemSoft products and services, can be purchased at GSA pricing: Through the GSA listed contractor, DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. Solutions, Inc., 360 Herndon Parkway, Suite 700, Herndon, VA 20170 (Contract No. GS-35F-4543G, and Web site www.dlt.com); from the Government pages on SystemSoft's Web site, www.systemsoft.com; or ordered by phone at 800-796-0088, or 508-651-0088. PCCardAccess(TM), introduced by SystemSoft at PC-EXPO-2000 this summer, allows users in the Windows environment (1) (upper case "W") Refers to computers running under a Microsoft Windows operating system. (2) (lower case "w") Also called a "windowing environment," it refers to any software that provides multiple windows on screen such as Windows, Mac, Motif and X Window. to boot PCs from a floppy and use PC Cards (formerly known as PCMCIA cards) to do IT administrative tasks, such as 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. (OS) downloads, disk cloning See cloning software. , operating system recovery, and large file transfers and backups. "PCCardAccess(TM) is a must for the government IT professional's toolkit," says Sherri Way, SystemSoft Business Unit Manager. "Government IT professionals will save time, labor, and expense with PCCardAccess(TM), so they can focus on more important systems management issues." Government IT professionals can use PCCardAccess(TM) to facilitate OS downloading and disk cloning to standardize multiple new PCs. Government lab and training center managers can use PCCardAccess(TM) to help reset PCs to a known configuration. Government IT professionals can also use PCCardAccess(TM) for fast and easy operating system recovery under a variety of conditions when a PC's hard drive has been corrupted, damaged or wiped clean. PCCardAccess(TM) is an essential tool when the only option for downloads for recovery is via a network PC Card, and PC Card services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. within the Windows 98/NT/2000 operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. do not function because the Windows operating system is not running. Or, when the only option for OS recovery is to use a SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. device, attached to a SCSI PC Card, PCCardAccess(TM) is essential. "PCCardAccess(TM) is a useful tool for many government notebook users," Ms. Way stated. "When a notebook user has complex programs, files, and a wealth of data, losing these to a drive failure or virus would be devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. . Using PCCardAccess(TM) to facilitate routinely imaging everything from one drive to another, via a removable media, provides quick recovery, if the PC is damaged, or lost," Ms. Way noted. About DLT Solutions, Inc. DLT Solutions, Inc. of Herndon, VA was founded in 1991 with a commitment to help its government and business customers overcome real world challenges by providing the best solutions in the marketplace. As a result, DLT has teamed with some of the most prominent IT software and hardware manufacturers in the world. DLT is a Premier GSA Schedule Reseller and Federal Systems Integrator providing knowledgeable sales representatives, ordering ease and outstanding customer support to the government marketplace. About SystemSoft Corporation SystemSoft Corporation, a subsidiary of Rocket Software, Inc., develops Windows Utilities software solutions. Our Windows NT solutions, CardWizard(TM) and PowerProfiler/SE(TM), have respectively earned Best-of-Breed status for PC Card Plug and Play and Advanced Power Management. SystemSoft offers its own and other third-party products through multiple sales channels including OEMs, direct to corporate, direct to government, resellers and direct to users via our eCommerce site. SystemSoft's OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and clients include 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) , Toshiba, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , and Micron. Corporate headquarters are located at Two Apple Hill Drive, Natick, MA 01760. For more information on SystemSoft, visit the Company's Web site at: www.systemsoft.com. PCCardAccess(TM), CardWizard(TM), PowerProfiler/SE(TM), and SmartMonitor-Plus(TM) are trademarks and SystemSoft(R) is a Registered Trademark of SystemSoft(R) Corporation, a subsidiary of Rocket Software, Inc. Microsoft and Windows may be trademarks and registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. |
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