Innovation Data Processing Announces FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS Major Product Release
Little Falls, NJ, December 3, 2002 - Innovation Data Processing, a market leader in storage management products, recently announced a major product release, FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS 3.2.0 with new bi-directional operations. UPSTREAM/SOS is the only storage management product on the market that provides open systems backups/restores and file transfers operations through the EMC Symmetrix DASD arrays across the FICON and ESCON channels to z/OS or OS/390 mainframe managed DASD or tape.

The FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS Product Suite provides file level support for LAN/SAN servers that are SCSI or FIBRE attached to an EMC Symmetrix DASD array with Enterprise Storage Platform (ESP) enabled. UPSTREAM/SOS is the companion product to FDRSOS, a physical volume solution, which provides extremely high performance and reliability, along with support for TimeFinder BCV volumes.

UPSTREAM/SOS also uses the channel connection to provide maximum reliability and throughput with reduced network overhead. It uses the unique UPSTREAM TRANSFER VOLUME to perform bi-directional operations for backups/restores and file transfers across the channel. The results of this "in storage" data transfer is that data traffic does not go across the network, therefore its performance is not limited by the network. By leveraging this connection, ultra high-speed backup and restore operations with virtually no impact on the LAN/SAN are achieved. Additional benefits that are provided by UPSTREAM/SOS processing are extremely low CPU and resource utilization.

This release contributes further to UPSTREAM/SOS being the tool of choice for shops that have open systems data resident on EMC Symmetrix DASD arrays. The FDR/UPSTREAM suite provides a centralized solution that exploits the existing OS/390 or z/OS tape management, Security and Scheduling systems, to allow multiple simultaneous backup and restore operations. One more UPSTREAM/SOS asset is its flexibility and the variety of user interfaces offered. A distributed storage administrator can perform operations from a graphical management and administrative interface or the mainframe backup server administrator can work with familiar TSO ISPF panels. Additionally support for pre- and post-processing capabilities empower the unified storage administrator team with seamless operations and coordination between the mainframe backup server and the open systems client.

To add to an already extensive feature set, UPSTREAM/SOS comes bundled with a robust suite of non-disruptive database agents for DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes Domino, and Novell GroupWise to provide a state of the art solution.

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, its products and services, can be obtained from the Innovation home page at http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com or e-mail us at sales@fdrinnovation.com