Radhika Bhuyan
KOLKATA: Wipro will bundle ‘Intelli-SMART’ with all Wipro Computers. The
deal was worked out by Kolkata-based Signotron (India) Pvt Ltd, who are the
country-wide distributors of LC Technology Inc., Clearwater Florida, USA.
Wipro intends to purchase 25,000 copies of Intelli-SMART during this year.
This will be in addition to the 8,500 copies so far. Earlier, HCL Infosystem
which had purchased 30,000 copies for bundling with the HCL range of PCs now
intends to procure another 100,000 copies this year. The orders demonstrate the
growing need for predictive failure analysis utilities like Intelli-SMART in the
OEM Community.
Intelli-SMART, the first (Self-Monitoring and Reporting Technology) S.M.A.R.T.
based product to be honored by the Microsoft Certification Logo, is a new
high-tech utility for monitoring utilities. LC Technology International Inc.
manufactures the device, which is a leader in the storage and data recovery
utilities for all Windows operating systems.
Intelli-SMART is the only full-featured implementation of the technology to
date, which is based on the original IBM concept of PFA (predictive failure
analysis). Intelli-SMART fully complies with the SFF Specifications for
S.M.A.R.T. Compliant Systems.
The monitoring features of Intelli-SMART give real-time simultaneous
monitoring of all disk drives in the system, supporting IDE, SCSI Hard Disk
Drives and RAID devices with the Windows 95/98 or the Windows NT 4.0 operating
system with Windows 2000 to recently follow.
Intelli-SMART runs as a service under Windows using minimal system resources.
Alerting features can be set to flash the System Tray Icon, pop-up a box, play a
sound and can also be sent via e-mail locally or over the Internet
Apart from dealing with LC Technology's Data Recovery and Protection
Software, Signotron works in Core Software and provides high technology
solutions on computers for clients in government, defense and large corporate
sectors. Its expertise and product range includes data security and safety,
secure communications and analysis and recovery of electronic data.