Syncsort's Backup Express Integration with Vertices Certified by B&L Associates, Inc.
Provides greater control and management for large tape installations.
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey - April 8, 2003 - The integration of Backup Express, the enterprise backup and restore product from Syncsort Incorporated, with Vertices®, the comprehensive media management tool for open systems' removable media, has been certified by B&L. The new interface allows Backup Express to easily share information with Vertices. Customers will now be able to ensure accurate logging of all their media and detailed tracking of all their data during backup.
"By integrating our two products, we provide our customers with a seamless backup and management alternative," says Winston W. Hait, senior product manager at Syncsort. "Backup Express gives you the reliability to ensure your data is saved. And Vertices gives you comprehensive control over how all that data is managed once it is backed-up."
"By teaming with Syncsort, we broaden our ability to offer comprehensive data center management," says Mike Kramer, B&L's Vice-President of Sales and Marketing. "Vertices will now be able to automatically log all media generated by Backup Express."
About Vertices
Vertices, the versatile and comprehensive media management tool for both open and legacy systems, is the smart way to control all the data in your organization. It instantly lets you know where your tapes and removable media are, what's on them, where they need to be moved and when you can re-use them. And best of all, it seamlessly integrates with the backup system you are already using. Plus, with features like bar code scanning, you are always assured of accurate vault reconciliations. For more information about Vertices, please call toll-free 877-Vertices (877-837-8423) or visit our Web site at www.vertices.net.
About B&L Associates, Inc.
Since 1975, B&L Associates, Inc. has been at the forefront of technology for designing and implementing data center related software. With installations in over 26 countries, B&L offers the most powerful, flexible and robust data center operations automation products and storage management solutions available for open and legacy environments. That’s why some of the world’s leading companies look to B&L for solutions, including AOL Time Warner, Credit Suisse|First Boston, QUALCOMM, and SBC Services. For further information, contact B&L at 877-VERTICES (877-837-8423) or through the corporate Web site at www.bandl.com.
About Backup Express
Backup Express is an enterprise-wide backup and restore solution designed for UNIX, Windows, and NetWare environments and provides support for the broadest range or technologies and platforms. Backup Express is the only solution that supports any combination of UNIX, Windows, NetWare, and NDMP/NAS in a SAN, performs backup of all data directly across the fibre network, dynamically shares all tape drives, and controls this single enterprise environment with a single catalog and easy to use GUI. Backup Express also supports all eight NDMP incrementals. This provides for complete flexibility when backing up NDMP/NAS devices.
Backup Express' distributed architecture allows it to backup up to any device in the network whether it is running UNIX, Linux, Windows, or NetWare, while maintaining a single central catalog for the entire enterprise. Backup Express can attach tape drives, including large automated libraries, at any server on the enterprise; dynamically allocate drives within a SAN; keep sensitive data off the network; and allow on-line backups of large database servers such as Oracle, SAP, MS Exchange, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 and Lotus Notes.
About Syncsort
Syncsort Incorporated is a leading developer of high-performance data management and data warehousing software for mainframe, UNIX, and Windows environments. For more than 30 years, Syncsort has built a reputation for superior product performance and reliable technical support. An independent market research firm has named Syncsort as one of the top Data Warehouse 100 Vendors for five years in a row and the company was recently chosen as the leading provider of Data Acquisition and Integration products. Over 95 percent of the Fortune 100 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries to back up and protect data in distributed environments, speed data warehouse processing, improve database loads and speed query processing. For more information, visit the Syncsort web site at www.syncsort.com.
Editors - for further information contact:
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B&L Associates, Inc.
781/444-1404
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Victor Werner
Syncsort Incorporated
201/930-8259
vwerner@syncsort.com
Kathy Berkowitz
914/666-8119
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