sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Information/Product Digest SunFLASH Vol 62 #61 February 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62.61 Sun Information/Product Digest This digest contains brief descriptions of Third Party products or informative announcements. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more article numbers (e.g. 62.32) in the Subject line. This is the fourth 'daily digest' style article that I have posted to SunFlash. If you have any comments about this style please send your comments to flash@sun.com -johnj (6 articles, 32kb, 626 lines, about 10 US Pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb lines 62.55 6 100 Tivoli Technology Selected by X/Open Systems Management Committee 62.56 6 118 Tivoli Expands With New Products, Services and Alliances 62.57 2 53 Fujitsu's IBM-compatible 3480/3490/3490E tape drives 62.58 8 147 Grand Junction Networks and Sun Demo Fast Ethernet Products 62.59 4 94 12 Port Sbus Terminal Server from Mesa Ridge 62.60 6 114 Centralized Unix Systems Administration (TRIView Manager) Totals: 32 626 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 62.55 Tivoli Technology Selected by X/Open Systems Management Committee From: Janice Brown <0003548141@mcimail.com> Technology from Tivoli Systems, Inc., of Austin, Texas, has been adopted by X/Open, the international standards organization, as the foundation for a new standard for distributed systems management. Tivoli has also been named as the editor of the specifications document describing the new standard, which will be modified and extended over the coming months to define additional services and incorporate feedback from members of X/Open's Systems Management Committee. Tivoli also announced today that it endorses the new standard and will modify Tivoli products to incorporate any changes and modifications made to the standard over the coming months. (100 lines) 62.56 Tivoli Expands With New Products, Services and Alliances From: Janice Brown <0003548141@mcimail.com> Tivoli Systems, Inc., a market leader in software for distributed client/server management, today announced aggressive new plans to better serve customers with large, geographically dispersed computing enterprises. The strategy includes new alliances, products and services that meet critical systems management needs of companies deploying large numbers of client/server systems. These needs include: - management support for all major client and server platforms, including PC LANs, PC desktops, and UNIX systems; - a single-source supplier of solutions for all management tasks, all the way from system configuration and setup to mainframe-quality operations management; and - assistance in integrating and deploying distributed systems management and operations management solutions for the enterprise. (118 lines) 62.57 Fujitsu's IBM-compatible 3480/3490/3490E tape drives From: Mike Gamerl (408) 894-3784 Fax (408) 894-3907 Fujitsu Computer Products of America (FCPA) would like to call attention to the benefits of their 1/2 inch IBM-compatible 3480/3490/3490E tape drives - the M2483X Rackmount and the M2485X Desktop. BACKUP - When Time Is At A Premium INTERCHANGE - When Multiple Platforms Use The Same Data (53 lines) 62.58 Grand Junction Networks and Sun Demo Fast Ethernet Products From: billr@fastlan.Grandjunction.Com (Bill Rossi) Interoperability of two 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet products was demonstrated at ComNet in the Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation booth. This demonstration showed the viability of Fast Ethernet products in a multi-vendor environment and the performance advantage of 100 Mbps Ethernet versus 10 Mbps Ethernet. (147 lines) 62.59 12 Port Sbus Terminal Server from Mesa Ridge From: ed@magma.COM (Ed Romascan) Mesa Ridge Technologies Announces a12 Port Sbus Terminal Server for only $595. The MAGMA LC 12 Sp is a low cost SBus Terminal Server designed to connect up to twelve terminals to Sun computer systems. It is specifically designed to connect to new or existing three-wire installations. Each port's receiver includes noise suppression circuitry that eliminates login cycling while the terminal is powered off. It can be used to connect to terminals, printers, plotters or any other RS-232 device that uses a three-wire connection. (94 lines) 62.60 Centralized Unix Systems Administration (TRIView Manager) From: terry@tactix.rain.com (Terry Furman) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Tactix ReEngineering, Inc. of Lake Oswego, Oregon has announced the availability of the TRIView Systems Manager for Unix Systems. System Administrators from Ontario, Canada to Oregon are using TRIView to manage remote Unix systems from a central location. Retail stores use TRIView to pro-actively monitor their systems, and upload/download receipts and inventory data. TRIView communicates over TCP/IP LANS or low cost UUCP async dialup lines. (114 lines) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. 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