EP and ALL, is the Norton Zip Rescue old news?...Here it is and it sounds significant to me. GM
IOMEGA, SYMANTEC, UNVEIL ZIP DRIVE DR TECHNOLOGY
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 based around 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 . |
