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INNOVATION ANNOUNCES NEXT-GENERATION UPSTREAM RESERVOIR

Innovation Data Processing, a market leader in storage management products, has released a powerful addition to the FDR/UPSTREAM Storage Management family of products. FDR/UPSTREAM is a complete backup and restore solution for corporate data distributed across a heterogeneous network.

For more than 10 years, FDR/UPSTREAM has been protecting corporate data for a variety of organizations while providing reliable and verifiable, and affordable protection for applications and databases for a variety of systems and platforms. FDR/UPSTREAM was originally designed to use a OS/390 mainframe system exclusively as its data storage server, but now the UPSTREAM Reservoir extends the power of UPSTREAM so organizations can now utilize UPSTREAM either in mixed z/OS mainframe, open systems environments or entirely non-mainframe environments.

The UPSTREAM Reservoir supports a wide variety of disk, tape and robotic devices. Backup devices can be a single tape drive, tape library, silo or disk arrays. The UPSTREAM Reservoir Backup server can use any tape drive or library such as 9840, Magstar, DLT, LTO, AIT and Ultrium. In addition, the UPSTREAM Reservoir provides the ability to backup to disk or tape and provides the option for data to be backed up to disk, staged from disk and automatically moved to tape.

The UPSTREAM Reservoir has extensive multi-platform support that includes agents for Intel Linux, as well as zLINUX. Also supported are Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003, Novell, OS/2, AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX and Tru64. In addition, there are a wide variety of database agents supported that include Oracle, DB2 UDB, Lotus Notes Domino, SQL Server, MS Exchange and Novell GroupWise.

UPSTREAM's Reservoir provides the highest degree in flexibility by allowing logically interchangeable tapes generated with the FDR/UPSTREAM product for media that is compatible. 3590 tapes on the UPSTREAM Reservoir system can be imported and read on the FDR/UPSTREAM mainframe system and vise versa. The UPSTREAM Reservoir solution provides enhanced functionality, automation and reliability for open systems storage, while offering low resource and system utilization. The UPSTREAM Reservoir provides a centralized solution for managing LAN/UNIX/SAN/NAS distributed data, making it a perfect fit for all types of organizations.