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Time Machine® is a
patent-pending software application designed to facilitate testing and
simulation of specified system dates and times without modifying or
resetting the system clock. This allows defined applications and
users to run under any defined future date, past date or time zone desired
while the underlying system time remains unchanged. With this ability
Time Machine proves itself as a powerful tool for performing
"what-if" testing on systems resources and programs.
Time Machine provides a unique solution for user-based time morphing for
Unix and Windows Servers. Time Machine can simultaneously run up to 20,000
individually defined virtual clocks at once and supports both group and
user level time offsets.
In simple cases moving the system clock forward to test applications
requires additional hardware and software which will add direct costs for
acquiring additional servers and licenses as the test machines can not also
be used for production purposes. This method also effects indirect
costs including support staff and overhead, network issues, reliability,
etc.. that come from running a larger environment. With Time Machine
running processes can be virtual time-segregated between testing and
production applications allowing a single machine to function as many.
In a network environment where secure logins are used, such as with
Microsoft's Active Directory, Novell's eDirectory or Sun Microsystems' Sun
One directory services, users login in with a time-based ticketing system
through Kerberos, a network authentication protocol. One of the
procedures employed by the Kerberos process to maintain network security is
the hard requirement that any machine that participates in the network must
have it's system clock synchronized to be no more than five minutes
different than the Domain Controller's time. This clock
synchronization is necessary to prevent an attacker from using an old
authenticator to masquerade as a valid user. The exclusion feature in
Time Machine overcomes this issue by allowing the Kerberos login's
dynamically linked libraries and executables to run under the valid system time
so that all access tokens are requested with the correct time. This
process combined with Time Machine's file date-stamping using real-time
variables ensures that all backups function correctly, file replication
services run without disruption and all machines running Time Machine can
freely participate in the secure network.
ASPs and corporate data centers that support users across multiple time
zones can also benefit from this versatile software package. Rather
than implementing the typical approach, one server per time zone, Time
Machine provides a cost-effective, single-server solution. Easy to
implement, a single copy of Time Machine installed on a server supports
unlimited time zones. With Time Machine, servers can now provide
remote clients/users with "local time" as required for legal,
accounting, and other sensitive and/or critical time and date applications:
Terminal Server Programs run in user time, rather than system time.
Solution-Soft invites you to test Time Machine today. Free evaluations are available through
our sales group.
Time Machine is available for MPE, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Windows NT
platforms.
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Michael
Morrison - Storage Management and Date & Time Testing
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"At
Medavie Blue Cross, we have to conduct date forward testing for our
internal provincial claims systems on a regular basis. With Time
Machine, we're able to host multiple Oracle testing environments on the
same system for multiple developers and testers. This not only saves
significant costs for potential hardware and software, but also
streamlines our application testing process."
Michael Jones,
Unix System Administrator
Medavie Blue Cross
"Using Time
Machine, Telstra was able to test all the scenarios of their SAP R/3
upgraded release in the allotted project time, while saving money on
system administrator resources."
Pooven
Govender
Consultant/SAP BASIS Team for
Deloitte Consulting/Telstra
"Time Machine
provided a quick and efficient way to date forward servers without having
to build a solution or change application code.The product (Time Machine)
has worked out as advertised and we do not have any issues. It
simply works! "
Doug
Rowe
Manager of Distribution Solutions, Nationwide
"Our client, one of the largest gas
trading companies, is very happy with Time Machine. Without it, it would
have been extremely cumbersome, resource intensive, & costly to do
the same type of SAP application testing & certification."
James Fish
SAP Basis Consultant, Accenture
"Time Machine will be very
beneficial to our Windows NT/2000 terminal server enterprise customers
and application service providers that are providing services to
end-users from different time zones."
David Hamilton
Product Manager for Microsoft Corp.
“Time Machine is a very worthwhile
product. It has a very important
and valid use and we were able to get it to work successfully with our
entire application, both the online portion and the batch portion.”
Mike McCormick
project manager with Ohio Department of Administrative Services.
Time Machine Saved CHD
Meridian Healthcare $750,000 learn
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Time Machine Named
"New & Improved
Product"
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Data Sheets:
· Benefits of Testing
with TimeMachine
· Unix (AIX 4.2.1-5.2, HP-UX
10.2-11.i, Solaris 2.6-2.9)
· Windows NT,
2000, 2003 & XP
· MPE 4.0/7.5
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Anglian Water
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Acorn Technology
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Atos Origin
· Bodet
· CHD Meridian Healthcare
· Companies House/LogicaCMG
· Deloitte
Consulting/Telstra
· Envision
· France Telecom/Ares
· Imago ASP Systems
· iMcKesson
· Pro Staff
Active Directory
Case Studies:
· Nationwide Insurance
· Tool
Fixes Time-Zone Problem for Windows Servers
· Time Machine Named
"New & Improved Product"
· Time Zone Processing
· TM vs.
Resetting the System Clock
· TM on an IBM SP
System
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Michael K.
Morrison SolutionSoft Systems Inc.
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