Time Machine’s new variable speed clock adds to the general features of Time Machine by allowing software applications to travel through time at a user defined pace.  With this new update, quality assurance or software simulation users can run their set of applications at any defined speed - up to 1,000 times faster than real-time or down to 1,000 times slower. 

This new functionality extends the previous general features of Time Machine, which include running software applications with virtual dates set into the future or past and even frozen in time at any user selected date and time.  With Time Machine, different users on a single machine can each have their applications running in their own unique time & date without affecting the system clock.  Additionally Time Machine natively supports Microsoft’s Active Directory Authentication so users with a virtual date do not get locked out of their domain as would happen with changing the system clock.

Time Machine does not require any coding modifications to your applications.  Whether you are running in-house developed applications, off-the-shelf third party software or a combination, Time Machine will be able to provide virtual dates to your software stack wherever it is needed. 

“The addition of variable clock speed is very exciting to our customers.  It opens new doors to use cases that were not possible before.  We are learning of new usages every day from our customers,” Said Paul Wang, CTO of Solution-Soft.  “We have a utility company customer using faster virtual clocks to train their Network Operating Center operators to avoid system wide blackout; where weeks of critical simulation data can be played out during hours of a training session.  We also have a banking customer, who utilizes a faster virtual clock, so a two week reliability test can be done in two days.  Another example is an insurance company that creates a slower virtual clock to ensure data loading can be finished within their one hour deadline.”

About Solution-Soft
Solution-Soft is the leading provider of Intelligent Data Optimization (IDO) solutions, which address the urgent need for automated management of data in complex networking environments.  IDO solutions facilitate automated data selection, compression, movement, and re-direction that optimize high availability, storage scalability, and system performance.  The company has developed robust data-management software solutions for corporate data centers and storage solution providers.  Solution-Soft boasts more than 1,500 customers, including 3M, AT&T, Boeing, Citibank, Ford, French Telecom, Hewlett Packard, Merck, Qualcomm, UMC and Xilinx.  Solution-Soft’s market presence is bolstered by partnerships with Citrix Systems (NASDAQ:CTXS), FalconStor (NASDAQ:FALC), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS).

Founded in 1993, Solution-Soft is privately held and based in Santa Clara, Calif.  For more information, visit www.solution-soft.com or call +1.408.346.1400.