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PR: New releases of Warp Server and WorkSpace On-Demand
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Sat May 30 23:38:41 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 30 May 1998 13:08:00 -0400
From: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-To: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
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Some of you may not have seen this yet...
IBM OUTLINES ROADMAP FOR OS/2 SERVER FAMILY
Plans Include New Versions of Both OS/2 Warp Server and WorkSpace On-Demand
AUSTIN, May 5, 1998 . . . IBM today announced several enhancements for the
OS/2* Warp Server family of products improving system management and back-up
and recovery capabilities. In addition, IBM has outlined plans for a new
version of OS/2 Warp Server and the next release of WorkSpace On-Demand,
IBM's server-managed client operating system. IBM plans to introduce this
next release into the OS/2 Warp Server family of products in early 1999 and
will serve as IBM's entry level server platform for running e-business
applications. In addition, IBM's new release of WorkSpace On-Demand is also
targeted for early 1999 and will offer customers support for a broader range
of hardware devices. "We continue to strengthen the OS/2 Warp Server
platform as a true enterprise solution to meet our customers needs today,"
said Jeff Smith, director of IBM's OS/2 Business Unit. "As more companies
become e-businesses, we want to offer an entry-level server platform that
will provide all of the features and functionality needed to build a network
computing architecture that can grow to meet customer's expanding e-business
demands in the future."
New Features for Today's OS/2 Warp Server
OS/2 Warp Server systems management provides network administrators with a
highly flexible tool that allows them to configure, monitor and manage local
and remote systems in a heterogeneous environment. This new update offers
administrators management of Windows NT 4.0 clients, expanded hardware
support, and added functionality such as continuous resource monitoring,
utilization reports for all servers, and report generation ranging from
hourly to monthly. IBM's backup and recovery feature in OS/2 Warp Server
provides users with non-stop system backup and recovery functionality
through an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) or a new command-line
interface. This enables users to schedule backups to run with minimum
intervention and allows for lost files to be restored in minutes with its
unique indexing facility. New features included in OS/2 Warp Server's
backup and recovery include: Large Network Administration and Backup -- In
addition to the easy-to-use graphical interface, the new command-line
interface now offers network administrators flexibility to automate and
customize the backup process for large networks.
Dual Device Backup Set and Removable Media Support -- Administrators can now
backup data on one or more different backup devices allowing for full system
backups to a tape drive, with incremental backup on a quick access drive.
The tape drive can be used for disaster recovery while the removable drive,
such as IOMEGA JAZ and ZIP drives, can be locally available for quick
recovery. This allows an administrator to take advantage of the price,
capacity and speed characteristics of different storage devices, minimizing
the time needed to recover an up-to-date system.
The new systems management and backup and recovery functionality that has
been added to OS/2 Warp Server is available today from Software Choice,
IBM's Internet software delivery site, at
http://www.software.ibm.com/os2warp. Roadmap Includes New Version of OS/2
Warp Server and WorkSpace On-Demand
The next release of OS/2 Warp Server is planned for beta availability in
late 1998 and will be IBM's entry level e-business server and an ideal
platform to help reduce the total cost of management with WorkSpace
On-Demand. In addition to all of the feature and functionality found in
today's OS/2 Warp Server, the new release will offer customers out-of-box
support for Year 2000 and Eurocurrency -- two critical issues businesses are
facing today. It will also include a high-performance Journaling File
System offering faster performance, improved scalability, and enhanced Web
serving capabilities. General availability is planned for early 1999.
The plans for the new release of WorkSpace On-Demand include support of a
broader set of hardware using standard IP Protocols allowing customers to
continue to build upon their existing hardware investments. IBM also plans
to provide additional pre-configured machine classes for hardware that has
broad appeal to today's customers. One example of the extended
pre-configured machine class support, will be WorkSpace On-Demand's support
for select IBM Network Stations. Additional planned enhancements will
focus on continued ease-of-use for administrators by enhancing WorkSpace
On-Demand's application installation and machine class creation tools. This
release will also include Java 1.1.6 with support for additional releases as
they become available. General availability is planned for the fourth
quarter of 1998.
IBM Software
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information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking
systems, storage devices and microelectronics. IBM offers information about
the company and its products through the World Wide Web. The fastest,
easiest way to get information about IBM software is through the IBM
software home page at http://www.software.ibm.com.
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* IBM and OS/2 Warp are registered trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation.
** Windows 95 and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.
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