HARBOR Systems Management and Polaris Communications Introduce HARBOR Channel Express with Support for Polaris

Business Wire, August 31, 1998

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HARBOR and Polaris Deliver First PCI ESCON Direct Data Backup/Transfer Solution for Windows NT-to-Mainframe

HARBOR(R) Systems Management, and Polaris Communications Inc. of Beaverton, Oregon, today introduced HARBOR Channel Express 5.1 with support for Polaris, the first solution to provide storage backup of Windows NT open system servers to a mainframe over ESCON.

HARBOR Channel Express is a new storage management solution that enables backup and recovery, file transfer, gateway, and data sharing functionality between Windows NT and mainframes.

Ultra-high-speed data movement provided by the HARBOR Channel Express is achieved by moving data over native 17MBps ESCON channels, rather than over slower backbone networks. The HARBOR Channel Express can reach transfer speeds in excess of 50 gigabytes per hour. In addition to dramatically reducing the time needed to transfer gigabytes of data, this new solution relieves congestionon backbone networks freeing them to do other work. This is a direct result of HARBOR software utilizing mainframe I/O channels and CPU cycles on the mainframe being reduced.

Combining HARBOR Gateway with HARBOR Channel Express allows many clients and agents to use a single ESCON channel concurrently.

"HARBOR is committed to delivering solutions for increased speed of data movement in multiplatform systems," said Ben Dulley, president of HARBOR Systems Management. "By expanding our relationship with Polaris, we're able to deliver t' to the storage management industry -- backup bandwidth between mainframes and Windows NT, the real value to our customers comes from well designed appliuch performance."

HARBOR Channel Express is available both in a board level solution using Polaris's Mo mainframe connectivity solution providing SNA, ations, e-mail, and groupware applications. HARBOR File Transfer provides an easy-to-use, non-disruptive mea Pricing & Availability

HARBOR Channel Express is available at a U.S. list price of $10,000 per host and $3,000 per client. The Polaris hardware starts at a Uor StarGate(tm). HARBOR Channel Express is availy held company headquartered in Beaverton, OR, is the pre-eminent supplier of high-performance mainframe charovide an ESCON channel interface in 1992. Produom.

About HARBOR Systems Management

HARBOR Systems Management Ltd. develops, markets, and suppARBOR Agent Suite, and HARBOR File Transfer. HARBOR's product line provides a scalable solution-set of backuBlue Cross, McDonald's Corporation, and SHL Syss for more than 10 years. HARBOR's home page address on the world wide web is http://www.harborsys.com

n the United States and other countries. StarGaborsys.com jennifer@polariscomm.com

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