Intelliguard to Demonstrate New Open-Standards Approach Combining Java, SIDF and NDMP at InfoStor '98

March 3, 1998 -- Dublin, CA -- Intelliguard Software, Inc., a leader in network-attached storage management solutions, will demonstrate a new high performance, open-standards approach to data protection during the InfoStor Conference, March 3-5, at the San Jose Convention Center. This new approach uses a Java application downloaded over the network and runs inside a Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) Server. The NDMP Server is managed by Intelliguard's BudTool and writes a System Independent Data Format (SIDF or ECMA 208) tape format. The NDMP/Java/SIDF combination provides additional functionality in a standard format without installing software on the data server.

The demonstration uses a Solaris host configured with BudTool acting as the NDMP control station. The workstation is connected over a local area network (LAN) using NDMP, to a Solaris server acting as the backup client with a locally attached DLT 7000 tape drive. To perform the backup, a Java application is downloaded to the backup client and runs inside the NDMP server. The Java application controls the movement of data from the file system to tape, in SIDF format.

"With Java, you can write your applications once and run them practically everywhere," said Glenn Gabriel Ben-Yosef, president of Clear Thinking Research, Inc., a Boston-based consultancy. "With NDMP, you can easily protect large amounts of data independent of platform. Intelliguard's demo proves that you can benefit today from protecting your corporate data using three important industry-standard enablers: SIDF, Java and NDMP."

NDMP separates the control of backup and recovery from the data transfer operations. This provides very high performance for backup protection in a networked environment.

"The application of these three standards, SIDF, NDMP and Java, together is another storage industry first from Intelliguard," said Bob Wilson, senior vice president, marketing for Intelliguard. "This application also continues to strengthen our commitment to standards-based disaster recovery solutions that insure business continuity by providing optimized high-speed, centrally managed data protection."

This demonstration uses Intelliguard's flagship product, BudTool, the leading standards-based solution for backup and recovery in a mixed UNIX and Windows NT environment to manage the demonstration. BudTool provides all of the user interface, scheduling, management and file history for the backup event.

Intelliguard's Software products are optimized for today's ultra high-speed networked storage environments to provide backup and restore services for both local machines and multiple networked hosts and tape drives. Using industry-standard NDMP, users are able to automate and control the data protection of a large, heterogeneous network without bogging down the network with backup data.