For Immediate Release





For more information contact:
Carol Payne (301) 698-1900




Cirrus Technology Announces the Release of Unite Storager (TM)
An OS/2 Warp Optical and CD-Recordable Jukebox Toolkit   

Frederick, MD --- September 24, 1995 --- Cirrus Technology, an
OS/2 software developer, today announced the launch of 
Unite Storager, a hierarchical storage management product 
supporting optical and CD-recordable jukeboxes. 

The SOM-based Unite Storager provides native OS/2 device driver support 
for a variety of SCSI-based storage devices.  A complete set of 32-bit 
APIs is included to develop flexible and efficient jukebox management 
applications.  Unite Storager can be integrated into development environments
 such as IBM's VisualAge. A graphical user interface is provided to start, 
control, tune, and stop Unite Storager; and administrative functions such 
as the importing, labeling and exporting of platters can be performed 
using this interface.  Dynamic, user-defined tuning parameters are also 
available for optimizing performance.

Unite Storager takes full advantage of OS/2's multitasking capabilities 
to manage thousands of store and retrieve requests while simultaneously 
reading and writing to all drives in the jukebox.   Unite Storager's 
multi-threaded design is so efficient, it can even burn CD-recordable 
discs while under the heaviest retrieval loads.  Unite Storager began
shipping in September, 1995.

Cirrus Technology is a Maryland corporation specializing in document 
imaging and storage management technology for the OS/2 environment.   
Since 1985 we have been dedicated to providing quality products and services. 


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OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.                         
Unite Objects, UniteLite, Unite Storager and Unite CD-Maker are trademarks 
and Unite is a registered trademark of Cirrus Technology, Inc.
All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks 
of their respective owners.