SystemSoft Enters Contract with GTSI Corp.; GTSI to Bring SystemSoft's Windows Utilities to Government Market.Business/Technology Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001 At FOSE FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition , SystemSoft Introduces new Utilities for Productivity in Disk Cloning See cloning software. and for Flash Card Management SystemSoft(R) Corporation, a leading provider of Windows(R) Utilities for the mobile and wireless computer marketplace, announced today it has entered into a reseller agreement with GTSI GTSI Government Technology Services, Incorporated GTSI Greyhound Travel Services, Inc. (former subsidiary of Greyhound Lines) GTSI Government Technology Services Inc. (R) Corp., the leading business-to-government (B2G (Business to Government) Refers to commercial enterprises selling to government agencies. See B2B. ) marketer of information technology solutions to Federal, state and local government customers worldwide. GTSI will bring SystemSoft's complete line of Windows Utilities - including two new utilities - to the government marketplace. It will join SystemSoft in introducing this line today in GTSI's booth #1140 at FOSE 2001. Held March 20-22 at the Washington D.C. Convention Center, FOSE is the largest information technology exposition serving the government marketplace. SystemSoft will demonstrate two new products at the show: PCCardAccess(TM) Release 2.0, a productivity utility for the IT professional's toolkit and FlashManager(TM), a software utility to manage linear Flash cards in the Windows 2000 environment. SystemSoft's complete line of Windows Utilities, which will be on display in the GTSI booth, also includes: CardWizard(TM), PowerProfiler/SE(TM), CardWizard-Plus(TM), ShutDown(TM), and SmartMonitor-Plus(TM). PCCardAccess, a software productivity utility for IT professionals, 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 OS downloads, disk cloning, 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. recovery, and large file transfers and backups. Earlier releases of PCCardAccess supported network, ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment and 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. PC Cards. Release 2.0 adds support for modem and combo cards so that they can be used in a boot-time environment. The PCCardAccess toolkit creates a bootable floppy which supports Card and Socket Services. For novice users who do not want to create their own floppies, SystemSoft will create the floppies directly. FlashManager manages linear Flash cards in the Windows 2000 environment. It coexists with the Windows 2000 PC Card (PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. ) subsystem to provide the widest range of support for linear Flash cards in the industry today. This includes Flash cards from Intel, Centennial and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. . "With GTSI reselling our products, we are extending our reach into the government marketplace -- making our products more easily accessible to the hundreds of thousands of government users who can now employ SystemSoft utilities to facilitate a wide variety of IT administrative tasks and mobile computing housekeeping chores," Sherri Way, SystemSoft Business Unit Manager, said. "In an ever growing mobile environment, SystemSoft's tools provide government customers with an entire solution to complement GTSI's extensive line of laptop computers and servers," said Mark Zelinger, GTSI's Vice President of Vendor Relations and Product Marketing. "For example, CardWizard allows for a "hot swap" of PCMCIA cards in an NT environment eliminating the need to reboot To reload the operating system, which restarts the computer. See boot. (operating system) reboot - (From boot) A boot with the implication that the computer has not been down for long, or that the boot is a bounce intended to clear some state of wedgitude. See warm boot. each time, while PowerProfiler/SE optimizes performance and productivity." "We will work closely with GTSI's sales force to introduce our new products to government agencies," Felix Tsatskis, SystemSoft Business Development Manager, said. "SystemSoft's products will not only benefit GTSI's government customer base, but will also benefit many of the notebook hardware and PC Card vendors that GTSI represents - making it easier for the end user who purchases these vendors' products to use them more effectively with the help of SystemSoft Utilities." Besides its extensive direct sales force, GTSI also offers its product line for sale via the GTSI web site at www.gtsi.com. For detailed descriptions of SystemSoft's utilities, visit the SystemSoft Web site at: www.systemsoft.com About GTSI GTSI is the most experienced business to government (B2G) marketer of information technology solutions to Federal, state and local government customers worldwide. Profitable and growing, GTSI is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and offers access to 150,000 products from more than 2,100 manufacturers. GTSI also offers customers multiple integration services and partners with globally recognized service providers to bring customers a wide selection of more complex integration options. Further information about GTSI is available at: http://www.gtsi.com About SystemSoft Corporation SystemSoft Corporation, a subsidiary of Rocket Software, Inc., develops Windows Utilities software solutions. Its 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. Company 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 CardWizard, PowerProfiler/SE, PCCardAccess, CardWizard-Plus, ShutDown, FlashManager and SmartMonitor-Plus are trademarks and SystemSoft(R) is a registered trademark of SystemSoft(R) Corporation, a subsidiary of Rocket Software, Inc. GTSI Reg. U.S. Pat & Tm Off. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Intel, Centennial and AMD may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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