Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based Alphatronix which just opened for business in Birmingham, West Midlands, has announced what it calls the industry’s first open hierarchical storage management environment. Coming out in stages, it provides Emissary, a user-managed client-based archival application, and a separate automated system-managed hierarchical file migration application, both of which integrate with the firm’s Inspire II optical jukeboxes and library management software. The latter is still under development and due next quarter for Sun Microsystems Inc Network File System networks, and will be followed by RS/6000. Emissary, which works on TCP/IP networks across DECstations, RS/6000s, HP 9000s and Suns, is out now at from $15,000.
