ADIC Scalar 100 Named Product of the Year Finalist for CMP Networking Industry Award; Highest-Density Tape Library First to Support SAN, SCSI, and NAS.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) today announced that its new Scalar 100 tape library platform has been named as a finalist for Data Integrity/Back-up Product of the Year by the selection committee for CMP's prestigious Networking Industry Awards. The Awards, scheduled to be presented in June, are given to the year's most innovative products as judged by a panel of industry experts. The Scalar 100 is the first automated tape storage system with an architecture designed to support Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attach Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) connectivity, along with more conventional SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. connection options. The new library, designed to support a choice of media types, also offers the highest storage density among tape libraries. "ADIC is honored to have the IT industry recognize the Scalar 100 as one of the year's most innovative automated storage platforms," said Bill Britts, ADIC(R) executive vice president of Sales and Marketing. "New and flexible approaches are required if storage systems are going to continue to meet the rapidly evolving needs of enterprise IT departments and the new demands generated by proliferating Internet data centers. We built the Scalar 100 with all these requirements in mind. We support emerging drive technologies for the highest levels of capacity and performance. We supply dynamic connectivity -- the ability to fit easily into a wide range of network architectures -- for flexibility. We provide fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. to maintain high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. for critical data. And we provide industry leading storage density." ADIC has a heritage of designing innovative storage products that win CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Networking Industry Award honors. ADIC's FastStor DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. autoloader was named Data Integrity/Back-up Product of the Year by the same organization in 1998. ADIC's Scalar 100 is a midrange tape library platform designed to support the industry's broadest range of emerging storage and network architectures with user-configurable, plug-in modules. The library supports standard SCSI connections but can be easily converted for SAN use by the addition of a FibreReady(TM) SAN module. Installation of the library's StorNext(TM) NAS option produces a network-attached storage See NAS. appliance with nearly 5TB of capacity. With DLT drives installed, the library has room for up to six drives and 4.8 terabytes of storage capacity in only 14 units of standard vertical rack space (just over 24 inches). The library is also designed to support SuperDLT, AIT, and LTO (Linear Tape Open) A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Quantum (formerly the Certance subsidiary of Seagate) that are licensed to third-party vendors. LTO cartridges contain a memory that stores historical usage data. drive and media technology. The Scalar 100 offers easy field scalability, allowing customers to begin with a low drive and media count and add more drive and media positions as data grows, lowering initial deployment costs and reducing the need for infrastructure upgrades. About ADIC With an installed base of more than 60,000 automated libraries, innovative storage management software, Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, and Network Attach Storage (NAS) appliances, ADIC is a leading device-independent storage solutions provider to the open systems marketplace. The Company offers a broad range of products designed to enhance organizations' ability to store, protect, manage and use their rapidly growing network data. ADIC's automated storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Inc. (USA), Milpitas, CA, www.fujitsu-siemens.com) Fujitsu Siemens Computers USA is a wholly owned research and development subsidiary of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Further information is available at http://www.adic.com. ADIC, Scalar, StorNext and FibreReady are trademarks of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other trade and/or service marks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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