Press Releases for New Products
February 2001

Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc. announced the January 2001 release of Starfire Titan, the Network Computing Manager. Starfire Titan provides browser-based, centralized administration for OS/2, WorkSpace On-Demand, AIX, Windows NT/2000, and Linux environments. Starfire Titan enables an administrator to launch tasks by answering only a few questions via a Web browser interface.

Starfire Titan allows complex, multi-step tasks to be defined once and delivered to multiple customers. Then the IT staff responds to a few questions and Starfire Titan completes the task for them. It provides browser-based, cross-platform management of network computing resources enterprise-wide. Starfire Titan is built on a foundation of open standards including Java, TCP/IP, HTML, XML, and SSL/TLS.

Starfire Titan "stores" the intellectual property required to accomplish a task, and therefore enables anyone with the proper access to perform even the most complex tasks. The IT staff is freed from the need to research, develop, and test solutions to the same problems repeatedly. Titan activities can be customer built to extend and customize the Starfire Titan investment. Additionally, Titan activities can be purchased from the Starfire Titan Partners. Starfire Titan can be further extended to support additional environments and vendor products.

Starfire Titan will be generally available in January 2001. For additional information, contact: Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc., 2429 Iowa Street, Suite K, Lawrence, KS 66046-4075; Phone: (785) 842-1111; Fax: (785) 842-8811; WWW: http://www.starfire.net.

ADVA Optical Networking announced SCSI over IP capability to its DiskLink SAN interconnect gateway. The new Gigabit Ethernet interface added to DiskLink as an alternative to existing ATM OC-3 and OC-12 wide area interfaces allows customers to build storage networks over IP backbone networks, such as intranets and Virtual Private Networks.