<s>
Valour	B-Application
is	O
a	O
copy/backup/restore	O
program	O
for	O
IBM	O
's	O
VM	B-Application
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Valour	B-Application
,	O
also	O
called	O
DiskWorks	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
strategic	O
marketing	O
brands	O
chosen	O
by	O
vendors	O
,	O
grew	O
out	O
of	O
a	O
plan	O
to	O
rewrite	O
the	O
aging	O
Westinghouse	O
Disc	O
Utility	O
(	O
WDU	B-General_Concept
)	O
and	O
target	O
the	O
full	O
range	O
of	O
IBM	O
operating	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Valour	B-Application
runs	O
as	O
a	O
highly	O
privileged	O
CMS	B-Operating_System
task	O
,	O
designed	O
to	O
accommodate	O
any	O
model	O
disc	O
drive	O
or	O
tape	O
drive	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
product	O
offered	O
a	O
wide	O
variety	O
of	O
hierarchical	O
backups	O
,	O
data	O
streaming	O
,	O
alternating	O
tape	O
drives	O
,	O
and	O
an	O
ability	O
to	O
defragment	B-Application
minidisks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Valour	B-Application
,	O
also	O
called	O
DiskWorks	O
,	O
grew	O
out	O
of	O
a	O
joint	O
effort	O
between	O
Westinghouse	O
and	O
III	O
of	O
Orlando	O
,	O
Florida	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Original	O
plans	O
called	O
for	O
both	O
VM/CMS	B-Application
and	O
VSE	B-Application
versions	O
led	O
by	O
Dr.	O
Ray	O
Ferguson	O
of	O
Westinghouse	O
and	O
Leigh	O
Lundin	O
of	O
III	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
John	O
Gaston	O
was	O
selected	O
to	O
lead	O
the	O
VSE	B-Application
team	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Part	O
way	O
into	O
development	O
,	O
Westinghouse	O
began	O
to	O
break	O
up	O
the	O
division	O
during	O
the	O
outsourcing	B-Architecture
thrust	O
of	O
the	O
Reaganomics	O
era	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Through	O
badly	O
managed	O
negotiations	O
,	O
Westinghouse	O
ended	O
up	O
with	O
neither	O
developers	O
or	O
outsourcing	B-Architecture
partners	O
,	O
which	O
spelled	O
the	O
end	O
for	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
industries	O
foremost	O
software	O
groups	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
VM	B-Application
product	O
was	O
developed	O
by	O
III	O
(	O
Independent	O
Intelligence	O
Incorporated	O
)	O
of	O
Orlando	O
,	O
Florida	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Broad	O
range	O
in-depth	O
testing	O
was	O
conducted	O
at	O
IBM	O
's	O
data	B-Operating_System
center	I-Operating_System
in	O
Tampa	O
,	O
Florida	O
and	O
the	O
IBM	O
lab	O
in	O
Böblingen	O
,	O
Germany	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
team	O
first	O
built	O
an	O
OOPS	B-Language
environment	O
using	O
a	O
combination	O
of	O
procedural	O
Rexx	O
and	O
assembler	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Valour	B-Application
may	O
have	O
been	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
commercial	O
products	O
that	O
looked	O
to	O
object-oriented	B-Language
programming	I-Language
to	O
underpin	O
its	O
development	O
platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Development	O
brought	O
new	O
techniques	O
and	O
concepts	O
,	O
including	O
its	O
own	O
hi-speed	O
access	O
method	O
,	O
network	O
hierarchical	O
data	B-General_Concept
structures	I-General_Concept
,	O
windowing	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
buffer	O
block	O
concept	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
granularity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
such	O
,	O
the	O
product	O
was	O
localized	O
for	O
France	O
,	O
Germany	O
,	O
Switzerland	B-Protocol
,	O
and	O
Netherlands	O
,	O
each	O
with	O
local	O
marketing	O
companies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Over	O
time	O
,	O
Valour	B-Application
(	O
DiskWorks	O
)	O
replaced	O
competing	O
products	O
acquired	O
by	O
Dowling	O
Associates	O
of	O
Dublin	O
,	O
Ohio	O
.	O
</s>
