The technology has passed rigorous product compatibility testing requirements through Novell, Microsoft, Hummingbird Communications, IBM authorized testing centers, as well as through Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and St. Bernard Software. As a result, the DS-SystemTM has earned product compatibility certification for the backup and recovery of a number of industry-standard networking, VPN, and server-related products, ensuring your peace of mind.

The DS-Client^TM application software has been tested and certified compatible with:

• The Microsoft® BackOffice® integrated family of server software
  
• Novell® NetWare and Novell NDS Network Directory Services under the Novell "Yes, Tested & Approved^TM" and the "Directory Enabled^TM" marks, respectively
  
• Hummingbird Communications NFS Maestro Gateway for UNIX under the "Flying with Hummingbird" mark
• Nortel® Networks Contivity^TM VPN
  
• Cisco® Access^TM VPN and Cisco® Secure^TM VPN Client
  
• Lucent Netcare® VPN
  
• St. Bernard® Software, Open File Manager^TM

Unlike other client-server-based products, the DS-System^TM uses a Platform-Transparent Client^TM. This means the software can back up any number of platforms, including Windows NT^TM/95/98, Novell NetWare^TM, all common UNIX^TM environments, and VMS^TM with just one client software installation. This is a significant administrative advantage.

In addition, the DS-System^TM is "agentless". This unique feature means the software needs to be installed only on one node. This simplifies installation, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrades, providing a simple yet feature-rich solution for backing up and recovering very complex heterogeneous LAN environments to an off-site on-line secure data center.

With product compatibility certification by Microsoft, Novell, Hummingbird Communications, and IBM, you can rest assured that the DS-System^TM can back up and restore distributed databases, directories, files, configuration, security, and applications across multiple networks, platforms, and protocols in your LAN environment.