Software tracks and analyzes backup and restore operations.

Attensity group Sep 30, 2004

Press Release Summary:

Helping companies ensure that business-critical data is safe, Time Navigator Reporter(TM) automatically compiles data across heterogeneous, geographically-dispersed systems comprising multiple backup servers and catalogs. Suite of reports helps administrators identify and address problems before they cause interruptions. Auditable record of backup and restore operations demonstrates compliance with audit, risk management, and regulatory requirements.

Original Press Release:

Atempo Delivers Time Navigator Reporter(TM)

New reporting software tracks and analyzes backup and restore operations across the enterprise

PALO ALTO, Calif., September 22, 2004 - Atempo, Inc., a leader in information lifecycle strategies for data protection, today announced the release of Time Navigator Reporter(TM), a powerful software tool for tracking and analyzing backup and restore operations across the enterprise.

As part of the Time Navigator(TM) data protection platform, Time Navigator Reporter helps companies ensure that all their business-critical data is safe, whether that data is stored across the room or across the globe. Its comprehensive suite of reports gives administrators the insight to identify and address problems before they cause costly interruptions or hurt productivity. And it creates an auditable record of backup and restore operations to demonstrate compliance with increasing audit, risk management and regulatory requirements.

"Time Navigator Reporter helps companies conduct capacity planning and storage provisioning for data protection, enabling them to proactively address bottlenecks and capacity shortages," said Frangois Gauthier, Atempo's chief technology officer. "It helps IT managers direct data protection spending where it is most needed and cut spending on underused systems. It gives companies the information they need to deliver utility computing services, and provides the performance tracking they need to fulfill Service Level Agreements."

Reporting Functions:
Time Navigator Reporter automatically compiles data across heterogeneous, geographically-dispersed systems comprising multiple backup servers and catalogs. The software's global summary reports cover backup activity, restore activity, media usage and much more. The software lets administrators zoom in for a closer view, reporting historical activity by library, catalog, pool, drive and user. It identifies backup and restore failures, and tracks the number and severity of alarms. And it can track backup times to ensure that backup operations fit within backup windows.

Capacity Planning, Storage Provisioning and Maintenance Scheduling:
The software's historical reports enable administrators to forecast usage and perform provisioning, anticipating problems such as shortage of media and performance bottlenecks before they damage business performance. It reports the number of spare and full tape cartridges in a library, the number of media mounts on a tape drive, and the percentage of busy time for a drive. And it tracks usage by drive, helping companies ensure maintenance at proper intervals in order to reduce drive failure.

Facilitates Service Level Agreements and Utility Computing:
By tracking backup and restore success ratios and other key metrics of service quality, Time Navigator Reporter gives companies the information they need to design and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Reporter also makes the Time Navigator data protection platform a more powerful tool for delivering utility computing; it lets companies track usage of storage resources by platform or application, allowing them to charge costs to the heaviest users by department or application.

Flexible Data Access and Display, Easy to Install:
Time Navigator Reporter is easy to use and flexible. Administrators can define and run reports either through a Java-based graphical user interface or remotely via a web browser. Output can be viewed in graphical or tabular form using Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other analysis tools. The software can be easily and non-intrusively installed in minutes. No agent is required for setup.

Works with Heterogeneous Systems:
As part of the Time Navigator platform, Time Navigator Reporter helps companies protect their data across a complete range of hardware platforms, operating systems and networking technologies. The software is compatible with Time Navigator versions 3.6, 3.7 and future versions, so customers can follow historical data even after upgrading Time Navigator.

Availability:
The product will be available in October 2004.

About Atempo
Founded in 1992, Atempo enables practical, comprehensive and flexible information lifecycle management strategies with a suite of business continuity and compliance solutions based on Atempo's Time Navigator platform. With an established network of value-added resellers and strategic alliances, Atempo empowers 2000 companies and partners worldwide with the fastest backup and restore, disaster recovery, archiving, and regulatory compliance solutions in this time of unrelenting data growth. For more information please visit www.atempo.com or call (866) 417-0200.

Atempo and the Atempo logo are trademarks, and Time Navigator is a registered trademark of Atempo S.A. and Atempo, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

Contacts:
Atempo, Inc.
John Dean, 650-494-2600, X1011
john.dean@atempo.com

or

Atempo S.A.
Laurent Fanichet, 33.1.64.86.84.08 (Europe)
laurent.fanichet@atempo.com