ECCS Completes Largest Segment of Army Personnel Data Storage System
February 08, 2001 3:58:00 PM ET
TINTON FALLS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2001--ECCS, Inc. ECCS today announced the successful completion of the largest segment of U. S. Army's new data storage system for personnel records, in an integrated system that provides for significant cost savings and direct control by government personnel.
The 3.6 TB installation at Fort Benjamin Harrison (Indianapolis, IN) for enlisted personnel records is the latest successful implementation of the Army's new Personnel Electronic Records Management System (PERMS), which utilizes ECCS' Synchronix(TM) fully redundant RAID data storage engines.
The three operating installations - the Enlisted Records Evaluation Center (Indianapolis, IN) for enlisted personnel; the National Guard Bureau (Arlington, VA) for National Guard officers; and the Management Service Records for Army officers (Alexandria, VA) - store a total of 5.6 TB of data.
"ECCS succeeded with a truly massive challenge - assisting us with this highly complex system that's so vital for maintaining and the safeguarding of Army personnel information," said James Riggs, Program Manager, PERMS Office, Personnel Command, U. S. Army. "A lot of people need fast, trouble-free access to this data, perhaps as many as 500,000 soldiers and individual support agencies, in order to process the records and assist our Army personnel who served or are still serving their country so courageously."
"Our successful implementation of this large data storage network for the Army is especially important because of the fault-tolerant need to access this data," said Gregg M. Azcuy, President and CEO of ECCS. "Our data storage engines have to store, protect and make these vital service records available in the most secure and cost effective way. We succeeded because of the dependability of our Synchronix(TM) appliances, the expertise of our service organization, and the effectiveness of our technology."
The Synchronix(TM)'s NAS Star(TM) operating system delivers key user advantages: The operating system's Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) provides for rapid data backup and restore and direct tape-to-disk backup for disaster recovery; and the NAS Star(TM) operating system's Automatic Network Processor Failover (ANPF) module delivers full redundancy with automatic failover, with no downtime.
The Army is using the ECCS systems to enhance data protection and accessibility. The personnel records are converted from paper files by scanner and from optical platters in large media libraries to disk format for faster, easier and less expensive access to the data. Then, the ECCS Synchronix(TM) RAID storage engines make the data easily available to agencies, like Veterans Affairs and the Department of Education, and to the military personnel themselves.
The ECCS systems deliver two additional advantages for the Army: Users have the option of maintaining ECCS appliances with their own personnel, granting the Army cost savings, independence of operation and the ability to train its personnel in key high-tech areas; and the ECCS systems can operate in different environments, such as Windows NT, Windows 2000, UNIX and the http web browser, which grants greater flexibility and means military personnel can view their own personnel records on the world wide web.
"ECCS has worked successfully with the Army and other military branches to meet expanding and increasingly critical requirements," said Azcuy. "Now, as our military moves forward to be upgraded and further modernized, ECCS will be there, ready to serve in any way possible."
ECCS, Inc., an innovative high-technology company based in Tinton Falls, NJ, serves e-commerce, major corporate, government, and other customers by supplying fault-tolerant systems and software that store, protect, and manage data in complex networks with greater ease and cost savings. ECCS data storage systems - including Synchronix 1000(TM), Synchronix 2000(TM), Synchronix 2500(TM), Synchronix 3000(TM), Synchronix SAN(TM) and the Synchronection 2(TM) systems - are modular units that can be tailored and stacked to meet customer's specific and expanding data storage requirements. This release contains forward-looking statements under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could vary materially. Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially include, but are not limited to: component quality and availability, changes in business conditions, changes in ECCS' sales strategy and product development plans, changes in the data storage or network marketplace, competition between ECCS and other companies that may be entering the data storage host/network attached markets, competitive pricing pressures, continued market acceptance of ECCS' open systems products, delays in the development of new technology, changes in customer buying patterns, one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time-to-time in ECCS' filings at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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