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Product:
DLT 4000 and 7000 Tape Library Systems
- DLT Tape Library Systems
($10,999 for DLT 4000, $16,499 for DLT 7000)
Company: Imation Corp.
(Oakdale, MN)
Telephone: (888) 466-3456
E-mail: info@imation.com
URL: http://www.imation.com
Platforms: Netware, Windows NT, IBM, AIX, SCO, Unix, HP-UX, Sun OS, Solaris, Digital Unix and more.
Description:
Imation's DLT 4000 library offers network server users the
ability to back up, archive and restore data on 15-40 GB DLT
tape cartridges. Including one DLT 4000 drive, the system
delivers 600 GB (compressed) storage capacity and system
transfer rates of up to 1.5 MB/sec (native) or 5.4 GB per
hour.
Imation's DLT 7000 library offers network server users the ability to back up, archive and restore data on 15-70 GB DLT tape cartridges. Including one DLT 7000 drive, the system delivers 1050 GB (compressed) storage capacity and system transfer rates of up to 5 MB/sec (native) or 18 GB per hour.
Features include a menu driven LCD control panel for ease of use, a removable tape magazine for easy off-site storage, an optional bar code scanner, and greater than 1,000,000 MCBF. Additionally, the libraries offer operating system and platform software compatible with all leading software packages.
Product: LoaderXpress - DLT storage system ($4995.)Product: Memory for Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 Workstations - memory upgrades (64MB/$335 to 512MB/$2957)
Product:
Custom Connect Server Suite
- integrate television and the Internet
(Contact vendor for price)
Company: Network Computer, Inc.
(Redwood Shores CA)
Telephone: (650) 631-4600
E-mail: info@nc.com
URL: http://www.nc.com
Platforms: Solaris, Windows NT
Description:
Build and deploy Enhanced TV applications, integrating television and the
Internet. Create services such as e-mail, interactive television guides,
interactive chat, news tickers, and Web browsing. Built on open standards such
as HTTP, SMTP, ODBC and SSL. As a result, Custom Connect fits seamlessly into
existing network environments, ensuring compatibility and minimal up-front
investment.
Integrated servers, tools and applications deliver a compelling experience to any NCI-enabled client device. Service providers can take advantage of Custom Connect's customizable features to create content and services using their brand, look-and-feel, and existing content. Custom Connect includes ready-to-go content applications such as TV-ready Registration, Tutorial, Help, Favorites, Address Book, User Settings and Home Page.
Product: Dialogic CT Media - Computer Telephony Integration for call center applications (contact vencor for price)
Based on the open Signal Computing System Architecture (SCSA) model, CT Media is resource management software that makes it possible for multiple telephony and media processing applications to share a common server. With support for standard interfaces like the S.100 media APIs and Microsoft TAPI, CT Media enables more flexible computer telephony systems that can economically support an array of services including switching, messaging, IVR, and call center applications. By supporting multiple open interfaces, developers are not limited to the technical constraints of writing applications to a specific piece of hardware, but are free to concentrate on applications development.
Product: PIPES View - monitor, manage PIPES Platform networks, applications ($2500/system)
Product:
HYPERtape Open Media
- Unix media management software
(contact vendor for price)
Company: SCH Technologies
(Cincinnati OH)
Telephone: (513) 579-0455
E-mail: info@sch.com
URL: http://www.sch.com
Platforms: Unix, NT, VMS
Description:
Provides a central point of media management control for all data,
regardless of environments and applications, including NT and VMS. Share
valuable library resources amongst multiple platforms. This requires fewer
tape volume or slots, allows dynamic device allocation and is easily
extendable to new platforms, devices, and data management systems.
Product: NFR Version 1.5 - network monitoring and auditing software server (contact vendor for price)
A Java interface allows administrators to perform real-time queries on the available data and presents the results in both text and graphic formats.
Product: NetWorker BusinesSuite Module for Informix - backup and recovery solution for Informix database servers ($5000/server)
Product:
CPLEX 5.0
- Parallel Optimizers for Sun Ultra HPC Servers
(contact vendor for price)
Company: ILOG S.A
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (650) 390-9000
E-mail: info@ilog.com
URL: http://www.ilog.com
Platforms: PC (Windows 95, NT or Solaris), Cray, Digital Unix, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX
Description:
CPLEX 5.0, in conjunction with Sun's recent parallel
processing and math library developments, delivers major
performance advantages for end users and ISVs developing
resource allocation applications such as supply chain
planning.
CPLEX mathematical software is used in applications for nearly every industry with complex resource allocation problems, including: manufacturing scheduling and planning, logistics planning and route optimization in the transportation industry, call routing optimization and network planning in the telecommunications industry, financial planning and portfolio optimization, utility planning and dispatch, supply chain management, agriculture, health care, and defense.
Product: U/WIN - Unix-like environment for Windows-based systems ($199 for Windows NT clients, $99 for Windows 95)U/WIN comes bundled with more than 150 POSIX-compliant shell commands and utilities. It runs in the Microsoft native Win32 processing mode and permits you to integrate Win32 API calls into your Unix code, where it makes sense.
A powerful component of the U/WIN® product is the KornShell command and programming shell interface. The KornShell is already available on most Unix platforms. (KornShell is also available from GTL for Unix operating systems.) U/WIN provides a mechanism for building and running Unix applications on Windows NT and Windows 95 with few, if any, changes necessary.
Product:
JSQL Version 2.5
- Java/JDBC for the Ingres and OpenIngres
(contact vendor for price)
Company: Caribou Lake Software
(St. Paul, MN)
Telephone: (612) 688-9470
Fax: (612) 688-9580
E-mail: Info@CaribouLake.com
URL: http://www.CaribouLake.com
Platforms: Java
Description:
JSQL family of products provides connectivity between a Java
application/applet and the RDBMS using Sun's industry
standard Java Database Connectivity interface.
Available on a wide variety of popular midrange
and desktop computing platforms. The All-Java client is
very fast, and supports both JDK 1.0.2 and JDK 1.1.x. A
free, full-functioning evaluation copy can be downloaded
from the above website. First JDBC connectivity solution
for OpenIngres on Solaris and NT.
Aimed at enterprise-wide distributed application development, JSQL sports a Type 3 connection server to interface directly with Ingres/OpenIngres, a pass- through server to bridge connections from a firewall to the RDBMS host, and a remote user authentication server. Jtunnel provides Internet connectivity even through DNS-disabling firewalls and reverse-proxies, allowing seamless application deployment to the general Internet user community.
Product: NetDesk - portable, virtual desktop (initially available via free download)
Product:
CasePoint WebServer
- Multi-Layer, Self-Service Support system
($1,495 per concurrent user)
Company: Inference Corp.
(Novato, CA)
Telephone: (415) 893-7200
E-mail: info@inference.com
URL: http://www.inference.com
Platforms: NT, Solaris
Description:
Inference's multi-layer self-service support model empowers
users to support themselves, reducing the volume of calls to
a call center but retaining the centralized knowledge base,
making the entire customer service department smarter and
more efficient.
CasePoint WebServer Version 3.0 supports Inference's Case Based Reasoning (CBR) Content Navigator case bases, and includes features such as multiple attachments and expanded question types. It also supports Javascript to enhance customization of the user interface, making it even easier for companies to provide end users with the information they need in a timely matter.
Users can solve queries on their desktop, on the Web or with a call center representative more effectively. On the first layer, end users can solve a query by first using a knowledge base contained on their own PC. If the answer is not available on a user's local knowledge base, then the query is escalated to the Web, the second layer, to search the most up-to-date knowledge base for the answer. Finally, the query along with the knowledge from the first two layers is escalated to the call center, the third layer, to be resolved.
Product: Desktop Utilites for EtherShare 2.5 - cross-platform support for Unix and Mac users (contact vendor for price)
Product: N-PLEX Global v2.0 for Solaris - large scale Eail system for ISPs (contact vendor for price)
Message store allows for load balancing, as well as distributed message processing and storage among multiple servers with single domain addressing.
The Global Directory Server supports LDAP and is required for distributed configurations. Anti-Spamming: Full support for anti-relay and access control features to secure against "spam" and "unfriendly" domains. Address verification using reverse DNS lookup in SMTP to prevent SMTP spoofing. Allows and prevents user logins based on an access control list (ACL) using IP addresses with separate ACLs for authorizing message store access and relaying. May be configured with a list of included or excluded addresses; also includes an extension mechanism to allow for customized spam filters.
Product:
Arbor Essbase OLAP Server 5
- platform for enterprise OLAP
(Contact vendor for price)
Company: Arbor Software
(Sunnyvale CA)
Telephone: (800) 858-1666
E-mail: info@arborsoft.com
URL: http://www.arborsoft.com
Platforms: HP-UX, AIX, IBM OS/2, Windows NT, Windows 95, Splaris
Description:
Allows integration of OLAP applications across the enterprise. Typical
applications include sales analysis, profitability analysis, EIS, financial
consolidations, budgeting and forecasting. Provides breakthroughs in
scalability, performance, distributed architecture.
Product:
System Security Scanner (S3)
- security vulnerability detection and analysis software
($495 for a single server license or $3,500 for a 10-server license)
Company: Internet Security Systems Inc
(Atlanta, GA)
Telephone: (770) 395-0150, (800) 776-2376
Fax: (770) 395-1972
E-mail: sales@iss.net
URL: http://www.iss.net
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Irix, and Linux
Description:
System Security Scanner (S3), is an integral component of
the ISS SAFEsuite product family. It operates on each
computer to provide a detailed internal system security
assessment. A centralized console provides simplified
security policy management and enforcement of individual
agents and enterprise-wide reporting.
S3 systematically compares an organization's stated security policy with the actual configuration of host computers for potential security risks, including easily guessed passwords, user privileges, file system access rights, service configurations, data integrity, and the existence of Trojan backdoors and suspicious activity that indicates an intrusion.
Product:
CTIntegrator
- automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) tools
($30,000 per seat)
Company: Mentor Graphics
(Wilsonville, OR)
Telephone: (503) 685-1301
E-mail: info@mentorg.com
URL: http://www.mentorg.com/
Platforms: HP-UX, Solaris, Windows NT
Description:
Design-For Test (DFT) software solution for integrating
multiple core test methodologies within a system-on-chip
design. Solves the problem of effective test reuse for
complex core-based designs, accelerating customers' creation
of next-generation computer, multimedia and telecom
products.
Industry demands for small, high frequency-low power consumption devices are driving the need for more accurate modeling and traditional prototype and test methods used by power electronic designers are no longer sufficient. PEmag accurately accounts for the frequency effects of magnetic components on waveforms in devices used in high frequency power supplies and power amplifiers. The effects of winding strategy, skin, proximity and end effect, conductor type, material and core shape are included to assure fast, efficient and accurate product designs.
Product:
Java Teaching Kit
- Java courseware
($3,995 for an unlimited-use license per classroom or per instructor)
Company: Blue Horse Software
(Seattle, WA)
Telephone: (206) 675-1451
Fax: (206) 675-8949
E-mail: barryb@bluehorse.com
URL: http://www.learnjava.com
Platforms: none
Description:
Provides instructors with a complete and effective set of
Java training material. Organization can teach the
fundamentals of Java programming to its employees or clients
in a three to five day course.
Includes slides, instructor notes, lots of ideas for classroom discussions, student handouts, quizzes, a large collection of in-class exercises -- even diplomas.
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