UniTrends Announces Reseller Agreement with Rave Computer Association; UniTrends Crash Recovery and Backup Products Will be Part of Rave Computer's Backup and Restore Solutions.Business Editors MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2002 UniTrends Software Corporation and Rave Computer Association Inc. today announced that Rave Computer will resell UniTrends crash recovery and backup products, providing customers with superior disaster recovery solutions. "We could not be more thrilled with this relationship," said Steve Schwartz Dr. Schwartz founded Unitrends in 1989 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Schwartz is considered the initial developer of a data recovery and restoration technique known as bare-metal restore and is recognized in the software industry as the developer of CTAR (Compressing Tape Archiver) and , President of UniTrends. "To have our product represented as a core component in Rave Computer's solutions portfolio and to be associated with a great partner in the Sun environment for our Solaris crash recovery product is truly a win-win for the customers, Rave Computer and UniTrends." UniTrends grants Rave Computer resale rights for the complete suite of backup, restore and crash recovery products. The products offer disk-to-disk and tape file by file backup, complete bare metal 1. bare metal - New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools integrated crash recovery, agents and lights out scheduling, and are easy to use for virtually every 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. (Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Free BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. , Linux, BSDI BSDI - Berkeley Software Design, Inc. , NetBSD, Novell, SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. Open Server, UnixWare 7, Solaris, HP, Alpha, RS6000 and more). UniTrends recently announced Solar Shield(TM), a complete crash recovery system for Solaris allowing for full bare metal recovery without re-installing the operating system and carefully preserving device drivers, security patches, file system sizes and mount points, permissions and kernel boot straps. Solar Shield completely rebuilds an identical Solaris operating system on a new hard disk and, in most cases, enables a totally automated recovery in less than one hour. "UniTrends products are competitively priced, easy to use, install and support and we are very excited to be the first Sun authorized reseller to offer the UniTrends crash recovery product for Solaris SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill ," said Tony Scicluna, Director of Sales at Rave Computer. "By including UniTrends software with our proven disk and tape products we will offer our customer base a very attractive and robust solution." About Rave Computer Association Inc. Rave Computer Association, Inc., based in Sterling Heights, Michigan Sterling Heights is a city in Macomb County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 124,471, making it the fourth largest in Michigan. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 95. , designs custom IT solutions for the ever-changing business requirements for today and the future. Our extensive technical knowledge and expertise in the high-tech arena enables Rave Computer to leverage leading edge IT vendors to devise optimal custom-engineered products for our customers. Rave Computer has successfully delivered high density, application specific solutions among the following industries: medical, government, manufacturing and telecommunications. More information about Rave Computer and its services can be found at www.rave.com or by calling 1-800-966-7283. E-mail inquiries may be sent to sales@rave.com. About UniTrends Software Founded in 1987, UniTrends is committed to the availability and safety of data. UniTrends provides powerful backup, recovery and complete data availability software applications that are cross-platform, scalable and simplistic sim·plism n. The tendency to oversimplify an issue or a problem by ignoring complexities or complications. [French simplisme, from simple, simple, from Old French; see simple to use as well as a full suite of data disaster recovery services. Information on UniTrends suite of guaranteed data available products is available at www.unitrends.com or by calling 800/648-2827. |
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