Advanced Mechatronic Services

Developers of CDAS, the hybrid CD-ROM InfoSystem that grows with your needs
Networked solutions from 3.9 Gigabytes to over 1 Terabyte!

Access Kodak Photo CDs in CD-ROM Jukeboxes via the World Wide Web using CDAS!

Houston, Texas, February 5, 1996 - Advanced Mechatronic Services, Inc., a Houston, Texas based computer mass storage software development and engineering support company, will unveil CDAS/WEB-PCD on February 26, 1996. CDAS/WEB-PCD is an extension of the company's hybrid three-tiered CD-ROM cataloging and retrieval software package. CDAS runs on Sun Microsystems servers and provides TCP/IP, NFS or IPX/SPX access to DOS, Windows, Macintosh, DEC VMS or Unix clients. Its hybrid three-tiered architecture overcomes the problem of relatively slow CD-ROM and jukebox access times by ensuring that regularly accessed data is always available in fast magnetic cache.

Like other CDAS software products, CDAS/WEB-PCD allows the user to start small with as few as 6 CD-ROM drives in a tower enclosure and offers a growth path to large configurations: multiple 49 drive CD-ROM arrays, multiple CD-ROM jukeboxes containing up to 240 CD-ROMs each and Terabytes of magnetic caching disk in a common repository that is accessible via a common interface.

CDAS/WEB-PCD, unlike other CDAS products, offers users running standard Netscape (or compatible) WEB browsers access to a virtually unlimited number of Kodak Photo CD images via either internal corporate networks (intranet) or the world wide network (internet). CDAS/WEB-PCD's intuitive management interface allows the system's administrator to easily import/export CD-ROMs, manage caching, or add additional CD-ROM drives and jukeboxes (Kubik Enterprises or NSM). Clients, whether local or remote, may view thumbnails of Photo CD images via standard WEB browsers and, after making a selection, click and download the images. Because CDAS/WEB-PCD works with standard WEB browsers (Netscape or compatible), it brings the convenience of a networked Photo CD library to Windows, Windows95, Macintosh and Unix clients.

The target markets for CDAS/WEB-PCD are OEMs, VARs, application developers and inhouse implementors that are addressing requirements for centralized storage of Photo CD archives for hetergenous networks in high-demand environments.

CDAS/WEB-PCD is the first of a line of CDAS products that will implement HTML, Java and computer mass storage mechatronics.

Advanced Mechatronic Services, Inc.
5610 Guhn Rd, Suite 100 * Houston, TX 77040 USA
voice: 713-460-5544 * fax: 713-460-5651
http://www.mechatronics.com

Developers of Networked, High-Availability CD-ROM Solutions

CDAS, CDAS/WEB and CDAS/WEB-PCD are trademarks of Advanced Mechatronic Services, Inc.
Photo CD and Kodak Photo CD are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company.
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