ADIVA Becomes First European OEM To Integrate HP'S AutoRAID Array Technology; UNIX System Supplier to Add HP AutoRAID Component to Storage-solutions Line.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1996--Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that ADIVA Computertechnologie GmbH has signed an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement by which it will incorporate HP's XLR XLR X-linked lymphocyte regulated XLR X-Linked Recessive (genetics) XLR Accelar (Nortel/Bay network switch) XLR Ground Left Right (digital audio) 1200 Advanced Disk Array with HP AutoRAID array technology into its line of ADIVA RAID-System storage solutions for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) systems and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. network applications. ADIVA will market the HP XLR1200 array under its own label and target Internet-server, CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. , pre-press publishing and education market applications in Europe. The company plans to begin delivering RAID-System products with the ADIVA graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to to European customers this month. Specific UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services 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. that ADIVA plans to target include workstations and servers from Sun Microsystems Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc. 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) (RS/6000) environments. "We are targeting customers whose businesses rely on internal databases, including applications such as stock data, invoicing data and customer databases," said Uli Meyer, general manager of ADIVA. "The ADIVA RAID-System not only allows us to address classic high-end RAID market applications but to address smaller companies with similar needs that supply customers with high-data-availability storage. HP's AutoRAID array technology is the perfect platform for building cost-effective, fault-tolerant, high-performance storage." "The European market, thanks to ADIVA, will soon be discovering how easy it is to have the benefits of conventional RAID technology without all of the complications of implementing it," said Gerard (Tex) Schenkkan, marketing manager for HP's Storage Systems Division -- Boise, Idaho. "HP AutoRAID array technology takes the pain out of installing and using conventional RAID technology for users, which really makes their job much easier, and helps ensure that their data will be protected." ADIVA will be integrating HP's AutoRAID array technology into its line of ADIVA RAID-System products. These products can support up to 12 1-inch-high 3.5-inch disk drives or six 1.6-inch-high drives, two active controllers, two active load-sharing power supplies and three fans. One of the two power supplies supports subsystem power requirements, and only two of the fans are required to provide adequate cooling. The subsystem's disk-drive modules, power supplies and fans are all "hot-swappable," meaning they can be replaced without having to shut down the subsystem or the host. ADIVA RAID-System subsystems can support up to 288GB of capacity when 4GB 1-inch-high disk-drive modules are incorporated in a rack-mounted 19-inch cabinet configuration. ADIVA, which is based in Bad Homburg, Germany, was founded in 1991 and is known as one of the leading value-added distributors in Europe. The company markets a wide range of products that include servers, workstations, networking hardware and software, printer and mass storage products and personal computers. HP entered the information-storage business 24 years ago when it began manufacturing and selling hard-disk drives. Today, the HP Information Storage Group has grown to more than $1.7 billion in revenue (FY 1995) with a complete line of information-storage products for computers and computer networks. HP solutions include disk drives and disk arrays, magneto-optical drives and jukeboxes, quarter-inch cartridge tape drives and digital audio tape See DAT. (storage, music) Digital Audio Tape - (DAT) A format for storing music on magnetic tape, developed in the mid-1980s by Sony and Philips. As digital music was popularized by compact discs, the need for a digital recording format for the consumer existed. drives and libraries. ISG ISG Iraq Study Group ISG Iraq Survey Group ISG International Steel Group ISG Integrated Security Gateway ISG Information Systems Group ISG Information Systems Group (IBM) ISG Integrated Starter/Generator products are sold through a variety of distribution channels under the HP SureStore and HP Colorado brand names as well as to OEM customers. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 108,300 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open(tm) Company Limited. X/Open is a trademark of X/Open Company Limited in the UK and other countries. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. CONTACT: The Hoffman Agency for HP Dave Webb, 208/345-9585 or Hewlett-Packard Company Amy Potts, 208/396-6000 |
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