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Hardware

Software

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Hardware

Product: 7450 Media Manager - automated tape library
Company: Hitachi Data Systems (Santa Clara, CA)
Telephone: (408) 970-4318
E-mail: lewis@hdshq.com
URL: http://www.hdshq.com
Platforms: most
Description: Dual, redundant robots service from 2,103 to 8,751 cartridges per library. Depending on the model, up to 32 drives and 8 controller paths can be supported. ESCON(a) support is available immediately.

Product: InRoute - T1/E1-class IP router family (InRoute/D: $500; InRoute/DL: $700; InRoute/R: $800)
Company: Sourcecom Corp. (Santa Clarita, CA)
Telephone: (805) 294-0555
URL: http://www.sourcecom.com
Platforms: T1/E1
Description: The InRoute family includes three models: the InRoute/R T1/E1 19` rack-mountable router with one T1/E1 port and one back-up port; the InRoute/D, the standalone T1/E1 router ideal for desktop environments; and the InRoute/DL, which has one T1/E1 interface and an integrated 56 kilobits per second DSU/CSU. InRoute's Frame Relay is compliant with Frame Relay standards (Q.920, Q.921 and Q.922) and interoperates with private and public Frame Relay networks, supporting up to 24 simultaneous Permanent Virtual Circuits. InRoute fully saturates WAN links at T1 (1.544 Mbps) and E1 (2.048 Mbps), independent of its host system. InRoute supports SNMP and telnet while simplifying system software upgrades by providing on-board FLASH memory and supporting Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). Comes complete with Internet Firewall support through sophisticated IP filtering mechanisms to ensure the security of Internet access links.

Product: Nebula 2000 - Ethernet Switch (from $3,995)
Company: Performance Technologies, Inc. (Rochester, NY)
Telephone: (716) 256-0200
E-mail: ljw@pt.com
Platforms: ethernet, WAN, LAN, IP, Novell IPX, DECnet, AppleTalk
Description: Eight-port switch combining store-and-forward switching technology coupled with sophisticated protocol filtering software. A wide area network (WAN) port provides remote office access and Internet access. Designed for LAN applications, including remote office connectivity, Internet access, and virtual LAN configurations. In addition, the Nebula 2000 has an optional hot-swapable redundant power supply for users with mission-critical applications. The intelligent network management software has protocol filtering functionality, intuitive GUI, and heightened visibility into network configurations via the advanced network information presentation.

Product: Strategy S-Series - storage servers
Company: Maximum Strategy, Inc. (Milpitas, CA)
Telephone: (408) 383-1600
Fax: (408) 383-1616
E-mail: info@maxstrat.com
URL: http://www.maxstrat.com
Platforms: Solaris, SGI, AIX, HPUX, Windows NT
Description: Support concurrent multiple heterogeneous Unix or NT platforms from a single enclosure and allocate storage resources among attached systems as needed. Delivers an aggregate data transfer rate of over 200+ megabytes per second across up to eight Fast-Wide or Ultra-Wide SCSI host connections. Offers over 400 gigabytes of user storage space in a single cabinet occupying less than one square meter of floor space. Storage can be partitioned for up to 24 independent arrays connected to multiple independent hosts, or partitioned into one or more large arrays shared by clustered clients. Mission-critical data is maintained and centrally managed via an easy-to-use graphical user interface and is protected by a highly fault-tolerant architecture.

Product: hyperSTATION Motherboard Upgrade - motherboard upgrade kits
Company: ROSS Microcomputer (Austin, TX)
Telephone: (800) 774-ROSS
URL: http://www.ross.com
Platforms: SPARCStation 5
Description: SPARCStation 5 motherboard upgrades offering integer performance improvements of up to 9 times -- and floating-point performance improvements of up to 13 times -- over that delivered by factory-configured systems. Maintains absolute compliance with SPARC standards, including SPARC SCD, SPARC Version 8 Architecture, and Level 2 (multiprocessing) MBus. A SPARCstation 5 system, upgraded with a ROSS hyperSTATION motherboard and dual 150-MHz ROSS hyperSPARC microprocessors with a tightly coupled 512-kilobyte secondary cache, delivered SPECrate--int92 performance of 8187 and SPECrate--fp92 performance of 9809.

Software

Product: AutoCAD Release 13c4 for UNIX - computer-aided design ($3,750)
Company: Autodesk, Inc. (Sausalito, CA)
Telephone: (800) 964-6432, (415) 507-5000
URL: http://www.autodesk.com
Platforms: Sun, SGI, IBM, HP
Description: Object-oriented computer-aided design. Includes ASILISP, Common Desktop Environment (CDE) with drag and drop, Direct Distance Entry, DSVIEWER, Graphical Install, Single-line MTEXT editor, Solid Profiling, Viewing, and Drawing Layout for AutoCAD R13 solids, and Universal Naming Convention (UNC) pathnames, true multitasking and multiple sessions, long file names, customizable toolbars, and True-Type fonts. Optimized for various RISC processors, improved operating system support, object snap, regeneration, and scalability.

Product: Final Exam Internet Load Test - performance analysis of clients and servers ($2,995)
Company: PLATINUM Technology, Inc. (Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
Telephone: (800) 442-6861 (708) 620-5000
E-mail: info@platinum.com
URL: http://www.platinum.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 & 2
Description: Advanced system tool which analyzes the performance of clients and servers in Internet applications in response to various Web-user load levels. Generates and monitors load stress tests, assessing Web application performance under user-defined variable system loads. From its Internet Load Console users can schedule, run, and control various load scenarios including unlimited numbers of virtual users on the load server, as well as real users on multiple client workstations. All clients, load servers, and Web servers participating in the test session can reside anywhere on the Internet. Reports provide statistical analysis and graphs illustrating the performance results superimposed over the load status and also allow for comparison of previous and current results.

Product: ILOG Solver 3.0 - resource-optimization component (two-user license: Unix & OS/2: $40,000; Windows & Windows NT: $26,000)
Company: ILOG, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (800) FOR-ILOG, (415) 390-9000
E-mail: info@ilog.com
URL: http://www.ilog.com
Platforms: Unix, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2
Description: Object-oriented, constraint-based reasoning application component allowing post-deployment application users to edit solutions, override assignments, set priorities, and weigh alternatives. Delivers up to ten-fold performance gains over the previous version, and greatly reduces memory requirements for global optimization problems. Solver 3.0 can now manage larger and more complex problems on platforms that range from PC to mainframes.

Product: ILOG Views 2.2 - GUI development tool kit (two-user license: Unix & OS/2: $20,000; Windows & Windows NT: $13,000)
Company: ILOG, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (800) FOR-ILOG, (415) 390-9000
E-mail: info@ilog.com
URL: http://www.ilog.com
Platforms: Unix, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2
Description: Data visualization component for rapid graphical user interface development. Allows developers to present critical information using a variety of graphical tools. Includes a network grapher, Gantt chart, spreadsheets, hypertext presentations, OLE 2.0 interoperability, and an enhanced graphic gadget library. Includes Studio, a new flexible GUI design tool for rapid application building with minimal C++ coding. Studio manages all ILOG Views panels within a single application, allowing for greater depth of data representation, and is fully customizable. The Views class library is fully extensible and offers integration into any object architecture, legacy application, or database, from PCs to Unix workstations.

Product: MainWin XDE 1.3 - cross-platform development tools with true Windows API ($5,000)
Company: Mainsoft Corporation (Sunnyvale, CA)
Telephone: (408) 774-3400
Fax: (408) 774-3404
E-mail: info@mainsoft.com
URL: http://www.mainsoft.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 & 2, DEC Alpha AXP, Digital Unix, SGI, AIX, SCO, HPUX
Description: Enables original Windows source code, MFC, resource files, and help files to be re-hosted across all major Unix platforms. MainWin XDE is a component of MainWin Studio, the complete set of cross-platform development tools that enable a software developer to extend an application written to the Microsoft Windows API onto Unix platforms. Features Windows95 Common Controls like Tree Control and ListView. Supports the major Windows95 Common Controls on Unix and offers Unix support for additional Windows NT APIs including File and Memory Mapping APIs.

Product: PLATINUM AutoAction - manages distributed heterogeneous systems (from $5000)
Company: PLATINUM Technology, Inc. (Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
Telephone: (800) 442-6861 (708) 620-5000
E-mail: info@platinum.com
URL: http://www.platinum.com
Platforms: Unix, Windows NT, OS/2, OS/400, MVS, and VSE
Description: Solution for handling up to 99% of system and application messages and events without human intervention. This solution instantly recognizes, prioritizes, and acts on events based on predefined criteria. Maximizes control over the enterprise by peer-to-peer, multiplatform communication so systems can talk directly to one another worldwide, yet operate independently. Exploits advanced event management and resolution facilities to capture, correlate, analyze, and graphically represent alerts and events that occur in applications, systems, networks, and elsewhere, throughout the enterprise.

Product: PLATINUM CIMS - integrated chargeback and resource management (from $12,000)
Company: PLATINUM Technology, Inc. (Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
Telephone: (800) 442-6861 (708) 620-5000
E-mail: info@platinum.com
URL: http://www.platinum.com
Platforms: MVS, VM/VSE, UNIX, Windows, NetWare
Description: Integrated chargeback and resource management solution available with a powerful Executive Information System. Provides easy and accurate cost monitoring, resource accounting and critical chargeback of information resources. Provides Job Accounting, Chargeback, Cost Analysis, and Resource Utilization Reporting, in addition to reports, graphics, and files for Capacity Planning, and Resource Monitoring. Standard reports for Capacity Planning and Resource Monitoring show tape storage, and resource usage of MVS, TSO, Client/Server, IMS, AS/400, DB2, CICS, IDMS, VSE, print, and external disk space. CIMS processes information from the standard usage log files which are created by virtually every system.

Product: PLATINUM DBVision 3.0 - enterprise performance management
Company: PLATINUM Technology, Inc. (Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
Telephone: (800) 442-6861 (708) 620-5000
E-mail: info@platinum.com
URL: http://www.platinum.com
Platforms: Informix, Oracle, and Sybase
Description: Provides monitoring of performance metrics for relational database management systems in distributed Unix environments. It provides graphical and tabular displays of performance measurements, which help database administrators analyze potential problems, and tune systems before problems reach end users. If problems occur, DBVision can send alarms by onscreen message, e-mail or pager, and can automatically initiate corrective actions. Supports automatic Oracle reorganization upon locating disorganized subsections.

Product: PLATINUM ServerVision 3.0 - enterprise performance management
Company: PLATINUM Technology, Inc. (Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
Telephone: (800) 442-6861 (708) 620-5000
E-mail: info@platinum.com
URL: http://www.platinum.com
Platforms: Unix
Description: Provides monitoring of performance metrics for Unix servers in distributed Unix environments. It provides graphical and tabular displays of performance measurements, which help database administrators analyze potential problems, and tune systems before problems reach end users. If problems occur, DBVision can send alarms by onscreen message, e-mail, or pager, and can automatically initiate corrective actions. Monitors over 175 different measures of performance. Usable independent of database installations.

Product: Verilog Compiled Simulator v 3.0 - Verilog Simulator ($30,000 for a node-locked license.)
Company: Viewlogic Systems Inc. (MARLBORO, MA)
Telephone: (508) 480-0881
URL: http://www.viewlogic.com
Platforms: most
Description: Runs up to twice as fast as the previous version, offers ASIC sign-off features, source protection, and enhanced debugging capabilities. VCS is certified as a sign-off simulator, and designs are accepted for fabrication following successful simulation using VCS.

Product: Visual SourceSafe for Unix 4.0 - version control system ($500)
Company: Mainsoft Corporation (Sunnyvale, CA)
Telephone: (408) 774-3400
Fax: (408) 774-3404
E-mail: info@mainsoft.com
URL: http://www.mainsoft.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 & 2, DEC Alpha AXP, Digital Unix, SGI, AIX, SCO, HPUX
Description: Multiplatform, project-oriented version control system compatible with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for the PC and Mac platforms. Features an intuitive GUI, drag-and-drop file and project configuration capability, visual file and project difference displays, custom-configurable options for personalized user environments, and central code repository for easy back-up and restore. Provides complete multiplatform support.

Books

Title: PERL 5 DESKTOP REFERENCE - perl pocket reference ($6.95)
Author: Johan Vromans
ISBN: 1-56592-187-9
Company: O'Reilly & Associates (Sebastopol, CA)
Telephone: (707) 829-0515
Fax: (707) 829-0104
E-mail: sara@ora.com
URL: http://www.ora.com
Platforms: perl
Description: Provides a complete overview of the language, from variables to input and output, from flow control to regular expressions, from functions to document formats--all packed into a convenient pocket reference. Companion to O'Reilly's "Learning Perl."

Conferences

Product: EMA '96 - Annual Conference and Exposition
Company: Electronic Messaging Association (Arlington, VA)
Telephone: (703) 524-5550
E-mail: agraham@ema.org
Platforms: electronic messaging
Description: Specific issues to be addressed at EMA '96 include electronic commerce, security, creating messaging networks and directories, groupware, portable messaging and fax, and voice messaging among others. There will be live demonstrations of the efforts of the '88 Challenge, the group of vendors that have agreed to compliance on standards known as '88 X.400. Marc Andreessen from Netscape will be featured as a keynote speaker and will discuss the genesis of the World Wide Web - inspiration and its impact on current and future business communications. Over 100 corporate exhibitors including AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Lotus, MCI, Microsoft, Oracle, and fast-emerging specialty companies.

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