ANDATACO First to be Certified by Quantum for Ultra/160 SCSI Hard Drives.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1999--ANDATACO (Nasdaq: ANDA ANDA abbr. abbreviated new drug application ), a global leader in RAID and RAID-ready 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. storage solutions, announced today it is the first storage enclosure manufacturer to be certified by Quantum Corporation to begin integrating Quantum's new Ultra/160 SCSI-based hard disk drives (Atlas(TM) 10K and Atlas(TM) IV) into its high-end Open Systems storage enclosures. After several months of testing Ultra/160 SCSI on a variety of Intel-based platforms, ANDATACO is the first vendor to offer Ultra/160 storage solutions to 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 market for immediate availability with the company's new GigaSTOR/160(R) enclosures. This announcement underscores ANDATACO's firm commitment to be first-to-market with this next generation of high-end storage technology. This is also the culmination of collaborative engineering agreements ANDATACO has had with Quantum and Adaptec dating back to last year, when the three companies demonstrated the industry's first Ultra/160 SCSI solutions at Fall Comdex. "The GigaSTOR/160's unparalleled performance and manageability provide an ideal solution for both high-end workstations and servers running bandwidth intensive applications," said Mark Fife, vice president of marketing at ANDATACO. "We are very excited to be first-to-market with products that incorporate some of the most significant storage technology advancements in years." "With ANDATACO, Quantum Atlas hard drives meet IS demands for non-stop intelligent data management," said Pat McGarrah, technology program director at Quantum. "This close-working relationship between ANDATACO and Quantum has played a big role in making this technology available to open systems markets." Ultra/160 SCSI Three core features; double-edge clocking, cyclical redundancy checking See CRC. (CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. ) and domain validation Domain Validation is part of the SCSI standard. It describes how to negotiate the best possible transfer agreement between two devices. There are three different messages that can be sent:
Double-edge clocking doubles data transfer speeds without additional clocking, which ultimately reduces any implementation risks. CRC offers higher levels of data reliability by ensuring complete integrity of transferred data. Domain validation intelligently tests the SCSI network before completing data transfer rate negotiations. Ultra/160 SCSI is easy to implement due to complete backward compatibility See backward compatible. (jargon) backward compatibility - Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. . Ultra/160 SCSI also uses standard Ultra2 LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential cabling and termination, making it a natural SCSI transition choice. Adaptec Adaptec, a leading provider of host-based connectivity, has also been actively involved in the development of Ultra/160 at the host level. "We're actively working with ANDATACO and Quantum to ensure that our Ultra/160 SCSI host adapters The controlling electronics for SCSI contained on a printed circuit board that plugs into the computer's motherboard. A SCSI host adapter is often called a "SCSI controller." See SCSI. function well with ANDATACO's storage enclosures," said Cameron Brett, senior product manager for Adaptec's Ultra/160 line of products. "Ultra/160 promises to be an exciting technology that will begin to see strong adoption this year. In part, this is because all of the vendors involved in Ultra/160's development are serious about providing solutions with real-world user benefits that are also backward compatible Refers to hardware or software that is compatible with earlier versions of the product. Also called "downward compatible." Contrast with forward compatible. backward compatible - backward compatibility with existing SCSI." Pricing & Availability Production units of the GigaSTOR/160 are currently available for OEMs. Pricing is available to OEMs upon request. For more information about GigaSTOR/160, contact Jack Corrao in ANDATACO's OEM sales development group at (800) 435-9191. For additional information, please visit http://www.andataco.com/partners_intro.html About Quantum Founded in 1980, Quantum Corporation (www.quantum.com) is a diversified mass storage company committed to achieving customer satisfaction through high quality and reliability. Quantum is the highest volume global supplier of hard disk drives for personal computers, a leading supplier of high capacity hard drives and the worldwide revenue leader among all classes of tape drives. Quantum sells a broad range of storage products to OEM and distribution customers worldwide. Quantum's sales for the fiscal year ending March 1998 were $5.8 billion. About ANDATACO ANDATACO is a global leader in innovative storage solutions for 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. 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 Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. and restore products and storage management software. ANDATACO is leading the way in the latest SCSI technology storage systems serving customers' current needs and providing a cost-effective product migration next generation SCSI architectures. Beyond SCSI, ANDATACO offers customized Storage Area Networks (SAN) using Fibre Channel and SCSI technologies from best-of-breed industry leading manufacturers. Since 1986, ANDATACO has provided more than 10,000 customers with industry-leading technology to protect mission critical data and outstanding service and support provided by over 200 employees world-wide. To learn more about ANDATACO's products and the OEM "Keep the Drive Alive" Partnership Program, please visit http://www.andataco.com ----------- The foregoing statements regarding anticipated performance, reliability, customer acceptance, future products, product availability and anticipated ship dates are forward looking statements and actual results could vary. Factors which could affect actual results include the ability to integrate new products into the factory and manufacture in volume, the successful completion of remaining development efforts, market acceptance of the products and price/performance characteristics of competitive product offerings. GigaSTOR/160 is a registered trademark of ANDATACO, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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