Little Falls, NJ, May 13, 2003 -- INNOVATION
Data Processing, Inc. today announced that its enterprise software solutions
for non-disruptive and instant storage management are currently shipping
with support for the new IBM eServer zSeries mainframes introduced this
week by IBM.
According to the company, all components of its FDR Storage Management
Suite, FDR(Fast Dump Restore), ABR, and FASTCPK, FDRINSTANT,and ABRINSTANT
for non-disruptive z/OS storage management, FDR/UPSTREAM
for UNIX, Linux and Windows, IAM the VSAM application accelerator, as
well as FDRPAS the solution for non-disruptive installation of new storage
hardware and real-time data migration, will work on the new z990 servers.
Current releases contain full support for the z990 models with general
availability expected in June. Versions [V5.4L24 and above] exploiting
the larger, higher capacity z990 systems expected in October, are currently
shipping as normal maintenance.
"The growth of real time Internet e-business information is driving
up the amount of data stored on mainframe, UNIX, LINUX and LAN servers,"
said Thomas J. Meehan, Vice President of Advanced Technology. "INNOVATION
is actively testing its products on the software release that will accompany
the new z990. Given customers' need for higher performance and
high capacity processor systems to be able to keep pace, we are delighted
to be able to work with IBM to deliver solutions capable of helping
customers non-disruptively consolidate to meet the growing requirements
of an on-demand computing environment."
"Our customers significantly benefit when a company like INNOVATION
announces non-disruptive management solutions supporting our new z990",
said Rich Lechner, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, IBM Enterprise
Servers.
INNOVATION FDR, FDRInstant and IAM storage management solutions are
available through the IBM SystemPac offerings. The FDRPAS solution for
non-disruptive installation and disk capacity upgrades is available
through IBM Global Services and IBM Business Partners, whose specialists
employ the FDRPAS data migration engine for non-disruptive zServer disk
storage hardware installation and I/O load balancing.
INNOVATION Data Processing, Little Falls NJ,
is the leading independent software vendor in the world today, providing
Non-Disruptive Business Protection and Enterprise Storage Management
solutions for IBM eServer z/OS, zLinux, UNIX on zServers, OS/390 and
S/390 Linux attached enterprise storage, as well as for Windows, UNIX
and Linux, SAN, NAS and LAN distributed storage.
For additional information on INNOVATION "INSTANT" technology
and its ability to meet your demand for non-stop processing with non-disruptive
solutions, call 973-890-7300, e-mail questions to sales@fdrinnovation.com
and register for "News via e-mail" at http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com
FDR, FDR/UPSTREAM, IAM and FDRPAS are trademarks or registered trademarks
of INNOVATION Data Processing. IBM, z/OS, S/390, eServer, FICON, ESCON
and PAV are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation.
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