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Tokyo, Japan and Islandia, New York July 18, 2000 - Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) today announced an agreement enabling Fujitsu clients to utilize CA's advanced enterprise storage management solution. Existing Fujitsu customers can easily convert to an eBusiness environment while leveraging their existing IT resources.
Under this agreement, Fujitsu will offer CA's Virtual Tape System technology with its flagship 'GS8000 Series' enterprise platform supporting the MSP operating system. CA-Vtape allows the emulation of tape drives to transmit the data on disk devices and stacking of virtual tape volumes on any automated tape library, increasing efficiency of I/O operations as well as tape media utilization. CA-Vtape performs these actions transparently without requiring modifications to existing application programs.
"CA and Fujitsu have been cooperating in the development and marketing of advanced products like, Jasmine - the Web enabled eBusiness application platform, and ARCserveIT - the de facto standard for storage management" said Takashi Mitsumori, President of Computer Associates Japan. "Today's announcement significantly defines another new dimension to the CA/Fujitsu partnership by enabling Fujitsu's customers to utilize CA's powerful enterprise storage management solutions to be competitive in today's eBusiness marketplace."
CA-Vtape extends eBusiness storage functionality in heterogeneous environments that characterize the rapidly changing IT landscape of the eBusiness marketplace. This combination allows Fujitsu's customers to fully exploit the new storage paradigm with the GS8000 platform.
"Our customers require a comprehensive and reliable storage system environment to implement their eBusiness applications," said Junji Maeyama, SVP and group president, File System Group for Fujitsu Limited. "CA's technology delivers a solution with the proven experience and technical know to make our customers successful in eBusiness."
- [About Computer Associates]
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Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) the world's leading business software company, delivers the end-to-end infrastructure to enable eBusiness through innovative technology, services and education. CA has 20,000 employees worldwide and had revenue in excess of $6 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. For more information, visit www.ca.com.
- [About Fujitsu]
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Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of Internet-based information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates worldwide -- including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting -- it had consolidated revenues of 5.26 trillion yen ($49.6 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. Fujitsu's pace-setting technologies, world-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and global corps of over 60,000 systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has 188,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries. Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/
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