BRANCHES (from Acorn Software) Storage in a Nutshell Software Product Description Branches provides an "operator in a box" to service your tape and optical disk drives during "lights-out" and "hands-off" operations. For a wide variety of tape, optical and CDROM data libraries, Branches provides unsurpassed ease of integration into your existing archiving and data management applications. Branches requires no end-user training. Users simply issue a DCL MOUNT or DISMOUNT request, programs issue calls to SYS$MOUNT and SYS$DISMOU and Branches takes care of moving the requested media in the proper orientation into the requested drive. Branches integrates transparently with a wide variety of hierarchical storage management and archiving products, including: * Backup (Digital) * BAC/Plus (Professional Software Associates) * Tapesys (Software Partners/32) * Hierarchy (Software Partners/32) * SLS (Digital) * Others Management of the data libraries is done through a small number of simple DCL commands. Only the system manager need ever be aware of these commands. Product Availability Branches V2.8-4 is available for a 45-day free trial and may be freely downloaded and installed via FTP or Gopher. Documentation, supplied in machine readable form with the installation kits, may be printed at will. If this is not convenient, then hard copies of the documentation are available from Acorn Software. If downloading is not possible or is not convenient, then Branches may be ordered from Acorn Software on TK50. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c) 1996 Acorn Software, Inc. All rights reserved