Cheyenne Software Inc has announced an optical storage management system for OS/2 workstations and local networks. The Roslyn Heights, New York company says that its optical storage management automates the storage and retrieval of files on optical drives and jukeboxes and offers interoperability with MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2 clients. According to Cheyenne, after local network administrators have established migration rules for files and directories, optical storage management handles the management and movement of files transparently, either from a stand-alone workstation or local network server hard drive, to optical drives and/or jukeboxes. The offering supports three levels of disaster recovery: Dynamic Platter Back-up, said to perform real-time platter mirroring with the optical storage management automatically writing to two disks simultaneously; Periodic Platter Back-up, performing incremental platter back-up; and Platter Copy, which creates full copies of complete platters. Optical storage management is said to install on any OS/2 compatible workstation or local network server running under OS/2 version 1.3 or 2.X. Up to 10 logical optical storage management drives can be configured per system, and multiple SCSI adaptor boards per server can be installed on each server or workstation, says the company; each SCSI adaptor board can support up to seven optical drives. The Optical Drive Version sells for $1,000, with the Optical Jukebox Version, supporting up to 5Gb of storage capacity, listing for $3,500; both are out now.
