New or updated products for advanced systems computing.
September 1995
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New or updated products for advanced systems computing.
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September 1995
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Product:
CDcreation
(875 GBP)
Company: K-par Systems Limited
(United Kingdom/Bristol)
Telephone: +44 117 942 1141
Fax: +44 117 942 0564
E-mail: sales@k-par.co.uk
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, Solaris X86, DG/UX, Windows NT
Description:
A CD mastering package intended for commercial Unix and NT users. The
product promises support for ISO 9660 as well as Rock Ridge and Apple
HFS extensions, multi-session recording, and a drag-and-drop GUI. The
product works with major CD recorders including Philips, Kodak, Yamaha,
Plasmon, Pioneer, and Sony.
Product:
CDfactory
(6,800 GBP)
Company: K-par Systems Limited
(United Kingdom/Bristol)
Telephone: +44 117 942 1141
Fax: +44 117 942 0564
E-mail: sales@k-par.co.uk
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, Solaris X86, DG/UX, Windows NT
Description:
Allows users to produce multiple copies of different CDs without the
need for human intervention. CDfactory uses the latest CD recorder
jukeboxes containing blank CDR discs to provide a
"lights-out" configuration for CD mastering. Includes ISO
9660 mastering, explicit verify/confirm and a "blank pool"
facility. CDfactory sports GUI and command-line interfaces.
Product:
CDsafe
(875 GBP)
Company: K-par Systems Limited (United Kingdom/Bristol)
Telephone: +44 117 942 1141
Fax: +44 117 942 0564
E-mail: sales@k-par.co.uk
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, Solaris X86, DG/UX, Windows NT
Description:
Makes the multiple CDs in an autochanger or jukebox appear individually
as single sides, or configured to appear as "one large, slow
disk" thus allowing the software to work unchanged with existing
applications. All directory information about discs and files on the
CDs are stored on-line, further improving system performance. The
software works with most jukeboxes including Pioneer Kubik, and NSM.
Product:
FYI Planner Version 4.0
Company: Think Systems
(Parsippany, NJ)
Telephone: (201) 299-7177
Fax: (201) 299-7166
Platforms: Solaris, Windows NT, HP-UX, IBM AIX
Description:
An OLAP tool designed to help logistics, sales, and marketing
professionals to better forecast and plan demand cycles, and to analyze
and evaluate actual performance. It provides unattended continuity such
that even if the user reboots or loses the connection, the server
continues to process an update or calculation to completion.
Product:
GUARDIAN
Company: DataLynx, Inc.
(San Diego, CA)
Telephone: (619) 560-8112
Fax: (619) 560-8114
E-mail: datalynx@netcom.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, DG Aviion DG/UX, DEC 5000 Ultrix, DEC Alpha OSF/1, HP 9000/7xx & 8xx HP-UX, Fujitsu DS/90 UXP/DS, IBM RS/6000 AIX, ICL DRS/6000 DRS/NX, Motorola 88000 SVR4, NCR 3000 SVR4, Novell Unixware SVR4, Sequent DYNIX/ptx, SCO Unix 3.x & ODT, Siemens-Nixdorf SINIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Stratus FTX, Unisys SVR4 and DYNIX/ptx.
Description:
GUARDIAN enhances access control for 20 versions of Unix and promises
security management for all sizes of systems, including complex
heterogeneous Unix networks. Features include:
Product:
OnliNet V3.1 for Solaris
(Basic $189; Network $299)
Company: Exide Electronics (Raleigh, NC)
Telephone: (800) 554 3448, (919) 870-3403
Fax: (919) 870 3031
E-mail: info@exide.com
URL: http://www.exide.com/exide
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2
Description:
OnliNet V3.1 UPS-controller software offers unattended, graceful shutdown,
rapid notification of power events via SNMP communications, real-time
network-wide power monitoring of power across both a LAN/WANs, and a
GUI.
Product:
PIPES Platform
(From $200)
Company: PeerLogic, Inc.
Telephone: (800) PEER-601 (733-7601), (415) 626-4545
E-mail: info@peerlogic.com
URL: http://www.peerlogic.com/
Description:
Message-oriented middleware that promises communications
services for distributing applications across mixed operating
systems, hardware, and networks. These services
include asynchronous, process-to-process messaging; dynamic name
services; session management services; and cross-platform and
multiprotocol support.
PIPES Access for CICS provides a direct link between PIPES Platform and
IBM MVS/CICS mainframe environments.
PIPES Access for Visual Basic (bundled w/PIPES Platform for Windows
3.1 SDK at no extra charge) applications can communicate via PIPES
Platform with other applications written in CICS COBOL (using PIPES
Access for CICS) or C (using PIPES Platform), over any network
protocols that PIPES Platform supports -- without writing any
networking code.
Product:
PROtectOR
Company: Seek Systems
(Kirkland, WA)
Telephone: (206) 822-7400
Fax: (206) 822-3898
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, Solaris X86
Description:
Failover management software for building high-availability,
SPARC-based client/server environments. It provides fully automatic
fail-safe systems management for NFS file servers, DBMS/transaction
processing servers and related applications, including support for
multi-ported disk arrays and mirrored disk subsystems.
Product:
Paradigm Plus 3.0 with Enterprise Component Modeling (ECM)
($3995 and up)
Company: ProtoSoft
(Houston, TX)
Telephone: (713) 480-3233
Fax: (713) 480-6606
E-mail: richard@protosoft.com
URL: http://protosoft.com/home.html
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, AT&T/NCR 3000
Description:
An object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) tool that supports
Enterprise Component Modeling (ECM), code generation, and reverse
engineering. Using ECM, developers can identify business requirements,
model and build reuseable application components, and manage information
systems. Paradigm Plus makes ECM possible through its support for all
leading OO methodologies, incorporation of a distributed object
repository for large teams of concurrent users, and synchronization of
models, source code, and documentation.
Product:
PowerBroker
(From $500)
Company: FSA
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Telephone: (403) 264-4822
Fax: (403) 264-0873
E-mail: info@fsa.ca
URL: http://www.fsa.ca
Platforms: Unix, PC, Macintosh
Description:
A security product that controls and audits the activities occurring in
the root account, providing a record of activities, keystrokes, and
output occurring during system administration activities. It also gives
security administrators the ability to selectively grant or deny the
power of root to system administrators, programmers, users and
consultants, storing a central replayable record of all such activities
as they occur.
Product:
PowerLogin
(From $500)
Company: FSA (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Telephone: (403) 264-4822
Fax: (403) 264-0873
E-mail: info@fsa.ca
URL: http://www.fsa.ca
Platforms: Unix, PC, Macintosh
Description:
PowerLogin provides network-wide, NIS-compatible password aging,
password quality assurance, one-time passwords, and fine-grained
account control. The account control includes such constraints as who
can log in where, when and from where, and what happens to the user
once logged in. Account expiry and lockout, centralized tracking of
valid/invalid logins, and password histories are also supported.
Product:
PowerTelnet
(Daemon is priced at $495; client is $99.)
Company: FSA
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Telephone: (403) 264-4822
Fax: (403) 264-0873
E-mail: info@fsa.ca
URL: http://www.fsa.ca
Platforms: Unix, PC, Macintosh
Description:
PowerTelnet provides a cross-platform, secure, encrypted channel for
users who must remote-login across untrusted networks. Keystrokes and
data generated at each end of the channel are encrypted before
transmission.
Product:
SPATCH
(From $125)
Company: The Hyde Company, Inc. (Atlanta, GA)
Telephone: (770) 495-0718
E-mail: spatch@cy.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, SCO, AIX, HP-UX, Linux
Description:
SPATCH allows Unix users to send text messages to alphanumeric pagers
from a user, an application, an operating system, or e-mail. SPATCH is
used primarily for event monitoring and e-mail forwarding.
Product:
XFaceMaker 3.1
(XFaceMaker/IDT $2,000 (interface design tool) XFaceMaker/IL $3,500 (intermediate User Interface Mgmt System) XFaceMaker/UIMS $5,000 (advanced UIMS) XFaceMaker/Widget Factory $9,250 (dynamic graphics/class builder))
Company: QualSoft Corp.
(Palo Alto, CA)
Telephone: (800) 814-6372 (415) 494-6100
Fax: (415) 494-6099
E-mail: info@qsoft.com
URL: http://www.qsoft.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, OSF/1, SCO
Description:
XFaceMaker's developer claims the product is the only scalable,
upgradable, and fault-tolerant family of Motif builders available.
Version 3.1 has enhanced, dual-process architecture that shields the
GUI builder from Motif programming errors, and increases productivity
by supporting quick recovery to a "trusted" state of the
application under development.
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