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Ottawa ON, Canada – January 1, 1998
KOM Networks is pleased to announce the latest release of its industry-leading product, OptiStorm™ 2.5, an optical storage manager designed exclusively for Windows NT. OptiStorm™ was built on KOM Networks’ 15 years of specialization in optical storage technology and its experience with more than 6000 site installations. From its initial release in mid-1997, OptiStorm™ set the performance standard for optical jukebox software. This latest release incorporates important new features that improve OptiStorm’s™ ease-of-use and boost performance even further:
Partition caching
Enhanced interface
These additions plus numerous minor enhancements make OptiStorm™ the fastest, most stable device driver in the industry. In addition to the many advanced features not found as a single package within the industry, OptiStorm™ has some additional features in its design that makes it unique. ONLY the KOM optical storage management software is integrated at the device drive level and is the only one that is 100% NTFS (WinNT File system) compliant. KOM Networks does not use a proprietary file system, hence integration of this software is completely transparent and seamless. Some of the advanced features that OptiStorm™ 2.5 optical storage manager includes are:
- Support of all major brands of 3.5”, 5.25”, 12” & 14” optical rewritable and ablative WORM for jukeboxes and stand-alone drives
- Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0
- Advanced Windows GUI results in an easy installation, configuration & management
- Native file system for NTFS and FAT including attributes such as security and data integrity and supports FAT
- The most intelligent and highly sophisticated caching system providing optional magnetic (RAID) caching for level 2 HSM functionality
- Standard network access from all clients including PC, Mac, UNIX and PowerMac
- Volume spanning within the jukebox
- API interface library “SDK” for developers
- Multithreaded – the ability to manage and manipulate multiple drives
- Provides volume labeling
- Backward compatibility to all KOM software products.
About KOM Networks
KOM Networks, founded in 1969, is the world leader of innovative storage management software solutions. Pioneers of Data Protection & Retention, KOM Networks' products provide Compliance, Archiving and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) to over 10,000 installations globally. KOM Networks products are delivered through a worldwide network of value-added resellers, strategic partnerships and alliances.
KOM Networks' easy-to-integrate products let you Simply Manage, Protect, and Serve STORAGE, The Way You Want It. For more information please visit www.komnetworks.com.
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