T3 Technologies' New Solution Suite Cuts Disaster Recovery Costs by 60-70%; Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses to Benefit from VSE and OS/390 Solutions.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2002 T3 Technologies, the second-largest mainframe integrator in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , today announced a suite of affordable Disaster Recovery solutions for the VSE See DOS/VSE. VSE - Virtual Storage Extended and OS/390 markets. This solution suite includes VSE Data Vaulting Transmitting data to a computer in a different location for backup. & Recovery which features virtual backups to a secure data center; the Disaster Replacement Option (DRO DRO Digital Readout DRO Detention and Removal Operations (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) DRO Domestic Relations Order DRO Department of Radiation Oncology DRO Dielectric Resonator Oscillator DRO Destructive Read Out ) which provides a pre-configured replacement 8-40 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. FLEX-ES based tServer within 24 hours; and Disaster Recovery Planning with three affordable planning options. Studies conducted by Mainframe Week, 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) and The Wall Street Journal found that statistically, virtually all businesses without disaster recovery planning that experienced unexpected down time ranging from 2-5 days went out of business within five years. (a) However, in spite of the widely acknowledged need for Disaster Recovery (DR), high costs and lack of in-house expertise have put effective DR out of reach for most small- to medium-sized businesses ($100 million to $1 billion in annual revenue). For these reasons, these companies have remained particularly vulnerable, leaving the viability of the company and the jobs of employees in jeopardy. "The response from our customers has been tremendous. For the first time, they're finding Disaster Recovery solutions ideally suited to the needs and budgets of the smaller MIPS market," stated Steven Friedman, president of T3 Technologies. "Within six hours, we can restore their critical business processes residing on their mainframe, and can affordably provide a permanent replacement option that's up and running within 72 hours -- protecting both their business and their job." T3's three complementary Disaster Recovery offerings are now available, and include VSE Data Vaulting & Recovery, Disaster Replacement Option, and Disaster Recovery Planning. Pricing begins as low as $399 a month. VSE Data Vaulting & Recovery This VSE oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. solution features Barnard Software's OPTI-TAPE(TM) Software. With this offering, normally scheduled backups are copied over a secure Internet connection to the customer's own dedicated storage server at T3's hosted data center in Tampa. In the event of an emergency, data can be quickly migrated from the storage server to a stand-by Multiprise at the T3 data center. The recovery system can be up and running the last night's backup data within 6 hours! Disaster Replacement Option Thanks to its new, state-of-the-art tServer Integration and Development facility located in St. Petersburg, Fla., T3 offers "quick ship" capabilities for 8-40 MIPS FLEX-EX based tServers. These units are pre-configured to match or exceed a customer's current production system's specifications. Within 24 hours of notification, the replacement unit and a T3 installation engineer are at the customer's site to restore data files and get them back up and running. This program is available to replace virtually any IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. in the less than 40 MIPS range. By combining DRO with VSE Data Vaulting & Recovery, a complete replacement mainframe is pre-loaded with the customer's latest backup data prior to shipping. Disaster Recovery Planning T3 offers three levels of Disaster Recovery Planning: a Mainframe-Based Disaster Recovery plan priced at $4,950(b) will address a company's entire mainframe environment; a Total Data Center Disaster Recovery plan priced at $14,950(b) reviews and plans for a company's entire data center. A Total Workplace Disaster Recovery plan is available to examine and provide recommendations for the company's entire workplace environment. All T3 disaster recovery planning is conducted by IBM-trained Disaster Recovery Specialists using proven, industry-standard methodologies. T3 DR Specialists are experienced in balancing protection of critical business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets with affordability. For more information about T3 Technologies and their Disaster Recovery solutions, please call 800/871-9500, or visit them on the Web at www.t3t.com. About T3 Technologies T3 Technologies, the second-largest mainframe integrator in the United States, offers a full range of IBM-based solutions supporting the needs of the S/390 community. An IBM Premier Business Partner, T3 is a leader in providing IBM's small-middle sized mainframes, including the Multiprise and z800 product families. T3 provides services including needs analysis, sizing determination, systems programming specialists, and implementation, and offers virtually the entire IBM S/390 product line. Their client base includes Fortune 500 companies, small- and mid-sized firms, higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. institutions, and state and local governments. Founded in 1992 and based in Tampa, T3 is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with offices in New York, Texas New York is a hamlet in Henderson County, Texas, USA, about 11 miles east of Athens. Geography New York lies at the intersection of FM 804 and FM 607 in a stereotypically flat portion of East Texas, surrounded mostly by farm land. , Ohio, Nebraska, and Munich, Germany. For more information about T3 Technologies and their solutions, please visit them on the Web at www.t3t.com or call 800/871-9500. (a) Source: Mainframe Week, IBM and Wall Street Journal Research on the 1994 Earthquake, the 1995 Flood in Verb 1. flood in - arrive in great numbers arrive, come, get - reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" Netherlands, and the 1993 bomb attack on the World Trade Center. Published on Mainframeweek.com on March 27, 2002. (b) Introductory pricing available until 12/31/02. |
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