Amdahl Software's Storage Product Awarded U.S. Patent

Amdahl Software announced that its industry leading data migration and replication storage management product, TDMF (Transparent Data Migration Facility) software, has been awarded a U.S. patent.

"The patent award combined with our recent market successes are proof that we are continuing to build mind share, as well as market share, as the leader in replication and migration storage management market," said Amdahl Software president Steven F.X. Murphy. "This data migration and replication product leader has, in a short time, generated more than $100 million in revenue, making it one of the top 10 software revenue generating mainframe products in the industry. Some 40 percent of the world's largest corporations are using TDMF software with an unprecedented degree of satisfaction."

Carey Atkin, Amdahl Software senior consulting architect and architect of the TDMF product, comments upon its success in the marketplace.

"Customers indicate that the impact of the product is immeasurable in providing a mechanism to facilitate the phenomenal growth that has occurred in the storage capacity of most data centers within the last three years. It's changed the way that customers plan for and implement these changes, allowing the customers, rather than the vendors, the ability to control this growth. In many cases, the product has given storage administrators their life back, eliminating lengthy migration outages, thus approaching true 24 x 7 availability."

Introduced in 1997, TDMF software is the industry's first independent, non-disruptive data migration tool. It is a software-based storage management product that moves data from one storage volume to another allowing simultaneous read/write access and unimpaired response time.

TDMF software has been successfully installed and utilized by a number of businesses and institutions, in almost every industry, including government, financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, transportation and manufacturing. In addition, Amdahl Software has licensed TDMF software for resale to two other information technology companies.

In mid-November, Amdahl Software announced the TDMFOpen software product, which provides open systems support to the TDMF software suite and enables users to move and store large volumes of data on open systems platforms while ensuring the availability of critical e-business application data.

TDMF was awarded patent number 6,145,066.

About Amdahl Software

Amdahl Software provides leading-edge software solutions to companies that demand e-business performance and application availability across the enterprise. Amdahl Software is the vendor of choice in the areas of data protection, migration, replication, performance, application availability, disaster recovery, SAN management and business continuance.

As a global independent software provider, Amdahl Software has the support of Amdahl Corporation, a recognized leader in IT innovation and customer support, and the backing of the $50 billion Fujitsu Corporation. For additional information about Amdahl Software go to: www.amdahl.com/software.

Contact for Amdahl Software, Dave Scott, 770-493-9664, dnscott@attglobal.net or Amdahl Software, Mary Rittle, 770-541-5643, mary_rittle@amdahl.com.