Mango's Medley97 Achieves Best of COMDEX Honors
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Mango's Medley97 Achieves Best of COMDEX Honors
Breakthrough Pooling Technology Surpasses Microsoft, NDC and TDK for Best Connectivity
Westborough, MA - November 24, 1997: At the world's largest
high-technology trade show, Mango's innovative networking software
solution, Medley97, was honored the Best
of COMDEX 1997 award in the Best Connectivity Solution category. An
emerging, forward-thinking company, Mango edged finalists Microsoft,
NDC Communications, and TDK Systems to take the prize with the Medley
product line.
This year, nominees in each Best of COMDEX category were evaluated by a
team of judges consisting of a PC Week technical analyst and a PC Week
corporate partner, who represents buyers in the IT community - combining
the testing expertise of the analysts with a real-world perspective. The
PC Week judges for Best of COMDEX cited Medley's fully distributed,
fault-tolerant storage without a dedicated server as the primary reason
for the selection.
Nearly 600 out of the 10,000 new products featured at COMDEX were
considered in 12 categories for the awards, which have become an important
assessment for companies participating in the colossal COMDEX trade show.
According to PC Week, entries this year were 60 percent higher than last
year's show.
"By providing enterprise-level power, scalability, and reliability
at a fraction of the cost of client/server networks, we believe Medley is
the first truly "new" networking technology to be released in
the last decade. Our receipt of this award underscores Mango's commitment
to providing revolutionary networking technologies that will change the
way companies connect their people and systems," said Steven Frank,
CEO and president of Mango. "We're delighted that Medley has achieved
recognition as a breakthrough in connectivity solutions and expect this to
be the first of many such accolades."
An ideal small business tool designed to pool up to 25 systems running
on any combination of Windows95, Windows NT or NT Server, Mango's Medley97
seamlessly pools and harnesses the storage and memory resources on the
network it creates. Simple to install and maintain, cost efficient, and
completely transparent to the user, Medley97 takes small business
networking to the next level by pooling PCs - enabling them to share disk
space, memory and peripherals.
Medley97 Small Business Edition supports Windows NT workstation, along
with Windows95, and Medley97 NT Server Edition allows NT servers to be
added to a Medley pool. The Medley97 NT Server Edition also allows users
to pool multiple NT servers, providing powerful clustering benefits with
enterprise-level performance, scalability and fault-tolerance in a simple,
affordable solution that fits small business needs.
"Best of COMDEX Awards are designed to recognize the innovations
that point the way for the rest of the IT marketplace in the year ahead
and beyond, according to PC Week magazine, the host of the Best of Comdex
1997 Awards. The Best Connectivity Solution category recognized progress
in speed, reliability, flexibility, manageability, and price/performance.
Judges for the Best Connectivity Solution category included Michael
Surkan, technical director, West Coast for PC Week and Salvatore Collora,
systems engineer for Sony Pictures Imageworks. The criteria for the Best
Connectivity Solution category were usability, capability,
manageability/interoperability, level of innovation, audience reaction,
and overall impression.
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