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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
Editorial contact:

Brian Duggleby
UNIX Product Marketing
(603) 881-1216


                 DIGITAL'S DECsafe FAILOVER ENHANCES
                  HIGH AVAILABILITY, DATA INTEGRITY
                      FOR ULTRIX RISC COMPUTING


MAYNARD, Mass. -- January 26, 1993 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
today announced the immediate availability of DECsafe Failover, 
version 1.0 for ULTRIX RISC, software which provides automatic 
failover, restart and recovery of ULTRIX services and applications 
in a DECsystem computing environment. In addition, DECsafe Failover 
software enhances the already powerful ULTRIX networking environment 
by providing transparent Network File System (NFS) failover, giving 
both Digital and non-Digital users high availability to mission-
critical, enterprise-wide data.

     "One of the many strengths of an enhanced UNIX operating system 
like ULTRIX is its powerful networking ability in a distributed 
client/server environment," said Vickie Farrell, Digital's UNIX 
Product Marketing Manager. "Now, DECsafe Failover increases high 
availability and data integrity across the network, preserving user 
productivity by quickly restoring access to services and 
applications without manual intervention. In this way, DECsafe 
Failover can be a powerful foundation in an enterprise-wide, 
distributed computing environment, adding value to a proven, robust 
operating system," added Farrell.

     While DECsafe Failover software is designed to minimize the 
impact of system interruption, customers also benefit from increased 
application availability and improved computing power. Featuring 
dual path access, DECsafe Failover software enables two DECsystems 
to provide the same resources, i.e., the allocation of one system 
(slave) for non-critical application processing and the allocation 
of a master system to perform critical processing. In the event of a 
master system failure, the slave is able to perform both the 
critical processing and restart the failed system automatically, 
minimizing the interruption to users.

     In addition, duplicate copies of critical disk data can be 
maintained and recovered from disk drive and controller failures 
through Digital's optional ULTRIX Disk Shadowing product.

     DECsafe Failover is available now with license prices beginning 
at $8364.

     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked 
computer systems, software and services.  Digital pioneered and 
leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor 
computing.  Digital and its business partners deliver the power to 
use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center - 
in open information environments.
                                ####

Note to Editors:  DECsafe, DECsystem and ULTRIX are trademarks of 
                  Digital Equipment Corporation.

     		  NFS is a trademark of SUN Microsystems, Inc. 

     		  UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System 
                  Laboratories, Inc.

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