ANDATACO's Storage Solutions Earn Top Marks; ANDATACO's GigaRAID Family Licensed as Disaster Tolerant Disk System Plus by RAID Advisory Board.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 1998--ANDATACO (Nasdaq:ANDA ANDA abbr. abbreviated new drug application ), a global leader in 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. and RAID/RAID-ready storage solutions, earned the RAID Advisory Board A Massachusetts-based organization founded in 1992 that was involved with education, standardization and classification of RAID storage systems. See RAID. (RAB Rab (räb), Ital. Arbe, island (1991 pop. 9,205), 40 sq mi (104 sq km) off Croatia, in the Adriatic Sea. One of the Dalmatian islands, it is a popular seaside resort. Fishing and agriculture are the main occupations. ) license to display the RAB Gold Logo identifying its GigaRAID product family as Disaster Tolerant Disk System Plus (DTDS DTDS Disaster Tolerant Disk System DTDS Dumber Than Dog Stuff (polite form) +) classification. The DTDS+ is the highest level achievable from the RAB. The RAB awards this designation if a product successfully passes vigorous testing for reliability and performance under 20 demanding conditions. The RAB, founded in 1992, is the standards body of the RAID storage industry. To receive DTDS+ designation, products are measured against 20 RAB Extended Data Availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. Protection (EDAP EDAP Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention EDAP Extended Data Availability and Protection (fault tolerant disk technology) EDAP Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics EDAP Energy Descent Action Plan ) criteria. The EDAP measures the products' ability to support protection against data loss due to such elements as components failure, disk failure and external power failure. "EDAP testing reaffirms the reliability and high performance of ANDATACO's storage family. Customers and OEMs who have trusted their mission critical data to ANDATACO will be pleased to learn the standards body for the RAID industry agrees," said W. David Sykes, president, ANDATACO. "The storage industry welcomes the RAB's third-party validation and efforts to classify the highest quality products as DTDS+." The following ANDATACO products have been accepted as DTDS+: -0-
GigaRAID/HA (High Availability)
- Parity RAID, RAID Levels: 0,5, Multi-Lun RAID 5, Database
RAID(TM)(1).
GigaRAID/AA (Active/Active)
- Mirroring and Parity RAID, RAID Levels: 0,1,1/0, 3, 5
GigaRAID/FT (Fault Tolerant)
- Mirroring and Parity RAID, RAID Levels: 0,1,1/0, 3, 5
GigaRAID/FC (Fibre Channel)
- Mirroring and Parity RAID, RAID Levels: 0,1,1/0, 3, 5
(1) Database RAID is a registered trademark of ANDATACO Inc.
About ANDATACO: ANDATACO is a global leader in innovative storage solutions for Windows NT and 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). environments. The company offers SCSI, RAID, and RAID-ready disk arrays, tape backup and restore products and storage management software. ANDATACO is leading the way in the latest SCSI technology storage systems. Beyond SCSI, ANDATACO offers customized Storage Area Networks (SAN) using Fibre Channel Technologies from industry leading manufacturers, coupled with ANDATACO's SCSI products. To learn more about ANDATACO's products and the 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 "Keep the Drive Alive" Partnership Program access ANDATACO information at http://www.andataco.com. About the RAID Advisory Board: Formed in August of 1992, the RAB has grown from eight to over 50 members. Membership is diverse and includes: RAID Suppliers of Enclosures, Controllers, Software and Subsystems, PC to Mainframe Suppliers, Disk Drive Manufacturers, Universities, Communication Companies and Market Research Firms. The RAB has established three key programs which support its goal of assisting users to make more informed storage procurement decisions: education, standardization and classification. More information on the DTDS+ classification and RAB programs can be found at http://www.raid-advisory.com. |
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