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INNOVATION DATA ANNOUNCES EXPANDED SUPPORT FOR S/390 LINUX

Innovation Data Processing, a market leader in storage management products, recently announced that FDR/UPSTREAM has expanded its support for S/390 Linux to now include new online agents for the Oracle and DB2 database management systems.

FDR/UPSTREAM is a complete storage management solution for corporate data distributed across a heterogeneous network. FDR/UPSTREAM provides enterprisewide storage management for a variety of platforms including: Novell, Windows, Linux, UNIX servers and workstations using the z/OS or OS/390 MVS mainframes as the backup server. Complementing its extensive support, UPSTREAM can also be used for companies adding applications and servers using OS/390 UNIX and S/390 Linux. UPSTREAM provides comprehensive features such as backup/restore, file transfer, file migration and disaster recovery vaulting with centrally administered profile policy management.

FDR/UPSTREAM provides extensive support for S/390 Linux implementations; including S/390 Linux for Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux and Marist operating system variants. The attraction of S/390 Linux is that corporations can easily consolidate servers into the S/390 Linux LPAR or virtual machine thereby making the application less administrative intensive and more cost-effective. UPSTREAM complies with and expands on that goal with rock solid mainframe reliability and an impressive arsenal of tools to help the storage administrator deal with the management of this data.

FDR/UPSTREAM's database agents provide online backup capability, thereby giving the organization maximum protection for the data without having to impact the bottom line by having to bring the database down in order to do the administrative function of backing up. UPSTREAM is fully integrated into Oracle's Recovery Manager (RMAN). The Oracle Recovery Manager is an extremely full-featured backup facility and can be used with FDR/UPSTREAM to perform online and offline, full, incremental and tablespace backups of databases, tablespaces and data files. Some of the features supported include multichannel backups, backup sets, image copies, stored scripts, Recovery Manager reports, tags, integrity checking and more.

UPSTREAM fully integrates with IBM's DB2 Universal Server. This full-featured facility includes online and offline, full support of complete databases, or individual tablespaces. UPSTREAM can operate as a user exit that allows on demand or system generated transaction log backups which act as incrementals and result in reduced data transmission. Advanced UPSTREAM features provide high performance multi-channel operations for backups and restores and interaction with DB2 scripts that result in seamless operations with additional benefits of reduced training costs.

UPSTREAM supplies extensive support for S/390 Linux including advanced UNIX file system. Specific features include hard links, symbolic links, owners, single file system support, support for Reiser file system as well as ext2, ext3 and remote NFS attachments. UPSTREAM provides a variety of user interfaces including the 'Director', an Explorer like graphical management and administrative interface that can be run from virtually anywhere in the enterprise.

Innovation with this release once again demonstrates its superiority in product design and implementation. With a worldwide customer base and 30 years experience in backup, restore, hierarchical storage management and disaster recovery, Innovation is internationally recognized for non-disruptive backups and its inventiveness in this market segment.

Further information about Innovation can be obtained from the Innovation home page at www.innovationdp.fdr.com.