AMI Launches Ultra 160M and IDE RAID, Backplanes and Server Appliance at Computex.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2000 American Megatrends Inc.: Editorial Summary -- AMI will present its Indium Server Appliance, Ultra 160M 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. RAID, HyperDisk(TM) 100 IDE hard drive accelerator, advanced backplane designs, AMIBIOS AMIBIOS American Megatrends, Incorporated, Basic Input/Output System (R), Cluster Kit and motherboard products at Computex. -- Computex Taipei '2000 takes place June 5 - 9, 2000, at the Taipei World Trade Center Taipei World Trade Center, TWTC, was started in January, 1986 by Taiwan's foremost trade promotion organization, the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), to provide a single, modern venue that would combine exhibition space, conference facilities, offices, and hotel . AMI's booth is located at B710 - B712 and B809 - B811. American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), the leader in storage and computing innovations worldwide, today announced the release of its Server Appliance, Ultra 160M SCSI and IDE RAID controllers, AMIBIOS and dual 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/workstation motherboard at Computex Taipei `2000. Asia's largest IT event runs June 5 through June 9 at the Taipei World Trade Center. AMI's booth, located at B710 - B712 and B809 - B811, will feature the following state-of-the-art storage and computing solutions:
-- Indium, a tightly integrated, small footprint Server Appliance
product,
-- MegaRAID(R) Ultra 160M SCSI RAID controller products,
-- HyperDisk and HyperDisk 100 IDE hard drive accelerators,
-- Ultra 160M server and subsystem backplanes,
-- AMIBIOS products,
-- MegaDual(TM) and MegaPlex(TM) motherboards, and
-- Microsoft(R) Cluster Server (MSCS) Cluster Kits.
"We will present new advancements in IDE RAID and clustering technology, as well as our most recent achievement of designing around the 840 chipset issue with our MegaDual(TM) motherboard," said Sanjay Sehgal, AMI director of sales. "We will also launch our new Server Appliance line of small footprint, highly integrated motherboards." Server Appliance The Indium Server Appliance, when combined with embedded software, is ideal for use in emerging applications like Server, Linux(R) and Web appliances. By leveraging its motherboard, firmware and embedded OS expertise, AMI has developed a new family of products that enable OEMs to meet their Time-to-Market requirements in the burgeoning embedded and server appliance market. Ultra 160M AMI will announce volume shipments of its MegaRAID Ultra 160M SCSI RAID products, which include the Enterprise 1600, Elite 1600 and Express 500. For entry-level needs, the Express 500 is the ideal single-channel solution, providing unequaled performance at a reasonable price. The Elite 1600, designed with mid-range system requirements in mind, is the only product on the market with two Ultra 160M SCSI channels in a true half-size form factor. At the high-end is the Enterprise 1600. With four channels of Ultra 160M SCSI at its heart, this enterprise-level card is poised to take over the high-end of the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). RAID market with its blistering speed and robust feature-set. IDE RAID HyperDisk, an IDE solution for desktops, workstations and entry-level servers, brings the true RAID concept of high performance, continuous data redundancy and protection to the desktop. A simple and cost-effective way to increase the performance capability of IDE hard disk drives, HyperDisk allows users to double drive performance or data security at a fraction of the overall cost of SCSI RAID solutions. HyperDisk has an easy setup, allowing users to employ all their applications and store files with confidence. "As RAID technology is beginning to appeal to the end-user community, the market is happy to see AMI offering a low cost IDE RAID product to the more technically savvy home, SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and small business user," said Jackie Fu, AMI Taiwan product manager. Backplane As a long-term vendor of RAID controllers and motherboards, AMI now offers custom IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) A protocol for monitoring server hardware for temperature, voltage, chassis intrusion, etc. Introduced in 1998 by Intel, HP, NEC and Dell, IPMI defines a standard set of messages for the characteristics of hardware , SAF-TE SAF-TE SCSI Access Fault-Tolerant Enclosure and Intel(R) motherboard compliant backplane designs. AMI has supported vendors over the years in their backplane designs to maximize signal integrity, optimize layout and impedance, stubs, termination, design clustering, etc. AMI is now offering Ultra 160M SCSI and Fibre Channel backplanes in a variety of popular configurations. For years, AMI has designed and developed for 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 manufacturers the key components in high-speed systems. Its experienced design staff is well familiar with the newest approaches in the industry, as well as in using the tools and techniques needed to design high reliability systems. AMIBIOS AMIBIOS is designed to meet the Time-to-Market technology demands of leading OEMs, VARs and system integrators, with extensive power management, portability to all CPUs and Chipsets and incorporating tomorrow's technologies like Transmeta with their unique power saving CPUs and ServerWorks high performance workstation and server chipsets. AMI is proud to introduce its new fully-featured AMIBIOS Server 2000 for the highly competitive server and workstation market that is a direct result of working with industry leading platform providers. AMIBIOS enables AMI to continue in its support of these and other new technologies from across the industry to keep its customers out in front with their Time-to-Market goals in mind. Clustering Technology The MegaRAID Ultra2 LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential Cluster Kit 1400, a complete solution that provides nearly 100 percent uptime to systems integrators and solutions providers, is AMI's flagship clustering solution. With all components packaged in one simple kit, the Cluster Kit 1400 provides VARs, system integrators and individual users the ability to enable clustering support on their current server platforms. It supports more fault tolerant RAID levels than any other solution and delivers superior performance through a tight hardware design. The kit includes two MSCS See Microsoft Cluster Server. Certified MegaRAID Ultra2 LVD (Series 438) controllers, four MegaRAID Cluster Enablers, cables and an Ultra2 LVD subsystem. It enables users to gain Active-Active failover clustering support without an investment in overhead and allows IS professionals the ability to utilize today's leading technology on their current install. The Cluster Kit features a new enclosure, allowing AMI to provide the highest quality storage subsystem to its customers. The new rack-mount solution holds 10 bays rather than eight, providing the customer greater flexibility, better storage management and smart termination enabled on the box. The drive bays are all accessible without a front door and the look and feel of the box is of much higher quality and "looks good." Motherboards Building on its line of industry-leading multiprocessor server motherboards and basic server solutions, AMI will feature MegaDual, a dual Pentium(R) III Slot 1 motherboard with 133 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. front side bus (FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus ), and MegaPlex II, a high-performance Quad Pentium(R) II/III Xeon(TM) motherboard. MegaDual, a solution for high-performance workstations and mid-range servers, supports up to 4 GB of on-board ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. system memory. AMI designed around the Intel(R) 840 chipset issue with MegaDual, providing all the capabilities of the Intel(R) 840 chipset without experiencing any failures that may result when using a memory repeater hub (MRH MRH Memory Repeater Hub MRH Main Rotor Head (helicopters) MRH Multi-Resolution Homogenization MRH Mastic Roller Hybrid MRH Mataillos Rejuntaos de Hafen (MMO gaming guild) ) to run SDRAM equipped with error correction code Noun 1. error correction code - (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors ECC telecommunication - (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic (ECC) circuitry. AMI's commitment to quality has resulted in its most advanced dual-processor board to date. MegaDual features six PCI slots (two 64-bit, 66 MHz), on-board dual channel Ultra160 SCSI and dual on-board LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. support. The MegaPlex II features four slot two Quad Pentium(R) II/III Xeon(TM) processors, 4 GB main memory support, one ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. slot and seven full-length PCI slots. Several case configurations are available for the MegaPlex II, or it may be purchased as a stand-alone. The MegaPlex II is designed to outperform other Quad boards in its class. About AMI Founded in 1985, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has dedicated its resources to providing OEMs, resellers and systems integrators with leading edge computer technologies. This privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , best known for its Basic Input/Output Systems or BIOS, also supplies its state-of-the-art hardware, software, utilities and RAID controllers to over 55 percent of today's high-tech manufacturers. Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S. and throughout the world including London, Madras, Munich, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo to better serve our customers. For more information on AMI, its products or services, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit www.ami.com. Key Words: RAID, IDE, PCI, Motherboards, Server, Multiprocessor, Storage, Clustering, Backplane, Ultra 160M, SCSI, BIOS, Server Appliance |
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