6,000 CONCURRENT USERS CONNECT WITH ONLINE ACCESS TO A VLDB.XIOtech Corporation, Eden Prairie Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. and a networked storage pioneer, along with PolyServe and Oracle have partnered to create a proof of concept for a Very Large DataBase (VLDB (Very Large DataBase) An extremely large database. What constitutes a VLDB is debatable, but databases of 100GB or more are generally considered the starting point. ) running Oracle9i RAC See remote access concentrator. on a Linux/Intel cluster. The database is the world's largest of its kind and entails directly connecting 6,000 concurrent users with online access to a VLDB--a 10TB Order Entry and Product Tracking application. The VLDB storage system consists of five XIOtech MAGNITUDE(TM) hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. with four expansion cabinets connected to a Brocade(R) Fibre Channel fabric A Fibre Channel fabric (or Fibre Channel switched fabric, FC-SW) is a switched fabric of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. . PolyServe(TM) Matrix Server cluster file system and Matrix HA software are used to manage the cluster. A dual node Intel CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. server cluster running Red Hat(R) Linux(R) version 7.2 is used for the deployment. Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. and advanced storage management tools are essential for administering real-world VLDBs. The MAGNITUDE is the only networked storage foundation designed from the ground up to include a virtualized storage architecture that makes application-driven storage possible. XIOtech's REDI(TM) software harnesses all physical drive spindles within a MAGNITUDE into a dynamic virtual pool. The result is a networked storage foundation that scales easily to accommodate growing storage needs, and offers both redundancy and performance without complexity. "XIOtech's adaptive networked storage foundation architecture greatly simplifies the task of managing storage associated with a large Oracle9i database deployment," said Dan McCormick, vice president of Worldwide Marketing, XIOtech. "The ability to effectively deploy and manage a VLDB requires storage that is flexible and easy to manage, and the MAGNITUDE not only meets these requirements but as the proof-of-concept demonstrates, exceeds them." In addition, XIOtech's dedication and expertise with Oracle is further demonstrated by the introduction of XIOtech's SANbuilder for Oracle Series. The SANbuilder for Oracle includes best-in-class professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , storage hardware and software, training, support, and implementation guides to help ensure a successful deployment. XIOtech's SANbuilder is the first virtualized storage solution optimized for out-of-the-box use with specific enterprise applications. The SANbuilder series provides the fundamental benefits of a storage area network (SAN) and the unique capabilities of XIOtech's MAGNITUDE hardware platform, married in meaningful ways to applications. Tightly coupling the storage architecture and applications means immediate benefits to the enterprise, including optimal functionality and low risk, with predictable installation time and expense. The foundation expands as more applications are brought in, but the basic configuration allows companies to reap the benefits of networked storage without having to hire storage experts, address unnecessary complexity, or spend millions of dollars. The SANbuilder for Oracle is the third addition to a product family tailored to the unique storage requirements for specific applications and markets. XIOtech introduced the SANbuilder for Exchange Series in January 2002 and the SANbuilder for Healthcare Applications in June 2002. About Seagate Seagate is the world's leading provider of storage technology for Internet, business, and consumer applications. The company's products include disk drives for the enterprise, PC, and consumer electronics markets, as well as networked storage solutions. Seagate's market leadership is based on delivering award-winning products, customer support, and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. For more information, visit http://www.seagate.com. About XIOtech XIOtech Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seagate, develops comprehensive network storage solutions and was the first in the industry to develop true storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. . XIOtech's virtualized storage architecture--comprised of the MAGNITUDE(TM) hardware platform and REal-Time Data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. Intelligence (REDI(TM)) software family--incorporates all the components of networked storage into a tightly integrated, easy-to-manage, highly available configuration. XIOtech's virtualized storage architecture makes storing, managing, safeguarding, and retrieving data on heterogeneous computing platforms easy and cost effective. For more information, visit http://www.xiotech.com or call (952)983-3000. |
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