HP First to Offer Data Protection for Microsoft Windows 2000 With HP OpenView OmniBack II

Business Wire, March 22, 1999

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 1999--

Also Demonstrates Fastest Backup Performance

with Least Transaction Impact Using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0

Continuing its leadership in providing comprehensive storage-management solutions for the Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) environment, Hewlett-Packard Company today announced HP OpenView OmniBack II support for the Active Directory directory service in the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. HP OpenView OmniBack II is the first solution to provide highly reliable data-protection services for Windows 2000 server environments.

"Microsoft is pleased that HP is adding support for Windows 2000 and its Active Directory in the proven HP OpenView OmniBack products," said Edmund Muth, group product manager, Windows NT Server & Infrastructure, at Microsoft Corp. "Customers will benefit from high-quality backup and recovery solutions for their Windows 2000 server environments, especially as they deploy Windows 2000 in more and more mission-critical environments."

HP OpenView OmniBack II reliably protects the Active Directory, Certificate and File Replication services for Windows 2000 environments. It also provides backup and restore of the Windows 2000 file system, including support for volume mount points, directory junctions and the encrypted file system. HP currently offers high-performance storage-management solutions for distributed Windows NT servers and Windows NT server clustering environments.

HP and Microsoft Benchmarks Produce Industry-leading Results

HP also announced completion of backup tests with HP OpenView OmniBack II and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, evidence of the company's high-availability capabilities and leadership in low-impact backup technologies. Results, posted today at www.openview.hp.com/omniback and www.microsoft.com/sql, show backup transactions of 622GB/hour, the industry's fastest throughput with the least impact on the transaction-processing rate of the database. The results prove backing up and restoring large Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 databases can be accomplished with minimal disruption to database productivity at the high data rates required in mission-critical applications.

In addition to record-breaking backup speed, HP OpenView OmniBack II implements all backup and restore features of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, including full, differential and parallel database backups, and backup of single databases on multiple devices. It also provides key enterprise features, including multiplatform support; centralized backup and media management; and Java(TM)-based notification, reporting and monitoring.

"More and more enterprise customers are using SQL Server 7.0 in mission-crith HP OpenView OmniBack II. These tests confirm HP OpenView OmniBack II's position as one of the industry's fastest, most comprehensive, proven solutions for meeting these important requirements."

About HP OpenView OmniBack II

HP OpenView OmniBack II is HP's leading data-management solution for reliable, high-performance data protection of Windows NT and UNIX(R) system environments. It offers comprehensive backup and restores management across a single or multisite enterprise, enabling customers to decrease administrative overhead and operational cost while increasing staff productivity. HP OpenView OmniBack II ensures the highest degree of data accessibility for a 24x7 business environment through the integration with Microsoft Cluster Server, proactive error-recovery features, and comprehensive and easy-to-use disaster recovery.

About HP OpenView

HP is one of the world's largest providers of integrated network-, application-, storage-, security-, deployment- and service-management solutions. HP OpenView solutions are at work in more than 100,000 multivendor distributed computing environments worldwide. Together with offerings from more than 200 partners, HP OpenView offers a complete portfolio of services and management solutions on all major platforms.

Information about HP OpenView and its solutions can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.openview.hp.com.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 122,800 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.

Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.

Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.

Java is a U.S. trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.