In the continued
effort to provide you with Year 2000 remediation tools, Microsoft
offers a list of companies that offer Year 2000 remediation tools
and may be able to assist you in your Year 2000 remediation efforts.
For this tool to be listed on this site does not indicate an
endorsement or recommendation on the part of Microsoft for either
the manufacturer, its products or the underlying technologies being
used. You will need to do your own assessment to determine if the
tools offered meet your needs. For information regarding this
company or its Year 2000 solutions, please contact the company
directly.
Matt Barton
mbarton@vinca.com
http://www.vinca.com/
800-934-9530
Y2K TimeLab for Windows
Safely see today what will happen to your server or workstation
in the new Millenium.
Vinca's Y2K TimeLab is a low-cost solution that creates an
environment for to safely see how a server or workstation will
perform through the Year 2000 date change. Y2K TimeLab is
specifically designed for small and medium-sized organizations that
have done little or no testing, or for organizations that want an
accurate, easy-to-use tool that provides a second opinion about Y2K
readiness.
Y2K TimeLab enables users to view the effects of the Y2K date
change on an entire system by testing the interdependencies between
production data, hardware and applications in a production-like
environment. It tests an entire system by creating an exact virtual
copy of production data, locking the live data against modification
and corruption. Once the testing is completed, the virtual copy is
discarded and original data is restored.
Y2K TimeLab may be used on systems that have not undergone any
Y2K testing, or as a final confirmation for systems where component
diagnostic tools and vendor certification was used to determine Y2K
preparedness. As a second opinion, Y2K TimeLab provides a way to do
final testing to make sure that all hardware, application and data
interdependencies have been tested together on the production
system.
Y2K TimeLab provides the missing link---complete final
validation.
Although other tools may have been used to test components of a
system, it is hard to know if the fixes applied are actually going
to work. Y2K TimeLab allows you to use your production hardware and
your production data while running tests while your original data is
fully protected.
Using Vinca's patented and proven SnapShotServer technology, Y2K
TimeLab creates an ad hoc test bed on your production system,
allowing you to see all components of the system working together.
First, the user selects which drives on a system need to be tested.
Next, point-in-time copies of these drives and the TimeLab data
buffers are created. The point-in-time copies are also used to lock
away a safe copy of the original data during testing. The TimeLab
buffers are used to store all system updates while in testing mode.
Users then select a known critical date from a menu, or other
dates can be manually entered to test against. Once the data buffer
location and test dates are configured, the system is put in test
mode and the date is rolled forward. Users can now verify the
readiness of their system by running through critical business
processes such as printing out payroll, order entry, distribution,
etc. to identify any problems. Once final validation is complete and
the user is satisfied or the testing is complete, the system is
rolled back to the current date and time. With the system now rolled
back, the test data is discarded and the original production data is
unlocked and ready for regular business.
