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Iomega, Symantec, Unveil Zip Drive DR Technology
Newsbytes - February 20, 1998 14:04
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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 1998 FEB 20 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. Symantec [NASDAQ:SYMC] has teamed up with Iomega International, the European arm of Iomega [NYSE:IOM], to develop a disaster recovery (DR) system basedaround its PC recovery software and the Iomega Zip drive system.
To be known as Norton Zip Rescue (NZR), the bundle will be Windows 95- specific, with the software drawn from Symantec's forthcoming Norton Utilities v3.0 application, which is due to ship in Europe this spring.
According to Symantec, NZT will offer Windows 95 users a powerful disaster recovery (DR) system that quickly and easily fixes common Windows 95 problems.
Officials with Symantec's European operation claim that NZR will provide Windows 95 users with valuable recovery capabilities from Windows registry corruption, partition table damage, missing or damaged system files, boot record damage, lost or damaged CMOS (non volatile) memory and virus attacks.
Enrique Salem, vice president of Symantec's security and assistance business division, said that the DR bundle is the result of a
partnership with Iomega International. "With Norton Zip Rescue users will have state-of-the-art disaster recovery capabilities," he said.
The idea behind NZR is that users can create a Zip disk with their own system settings on a blank disk, in much the same way as PC users are advised to keep a DOS bootup disk for their PC if the hard disk ever fails. Since the Zip drive system cam store up to 100 megabytes per disk, however, the backup disk can contain a lot more data than simple Windows Registry settings.
According to Symantec, NZR's software is set up so that, when (if) a system disaster occurs, the user simply inserts the NZR disk into the Zip drive, restarts the computer, and a simple-to-use Wizard automatically attempts to fix the problem, guiding the user through the rescue process step-by-step. Once the problem is fixed, the user simply restarts the computer and continues working.
"The Zip drive is emerging as the standard that is succeeding the floppy drive," noted Randy Scott, European Zip product manager at Iomega International.
"NZR provides a compelling reason for corporations both large and small to standardize on systems with Zip drives built in," he said.
According to Symantec, the NZR software has been designed exclusively for use with Windows 95 based systems that include either an internal or external Iomega Zip drive.
The good news is that Symantec plans that NZR will be included free of charge with Zip drives that ship in Europe from Q2 of this year. Plans are in hand to extend the deal worldwide, and Iomega is also planning to offer the software for free download for existing Zip drive users from the company's web site at iomega.com .
Plans call for a Windows NT version of the software to ship some time during Q2 of this year. According to company officials, both firms have filed for patent protection covering various features and aspects of the recovery system.
Reported by Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com .
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