ANDATACO Signs OEM Agreement to Develop Enhanced GigaRAID Storage Series Products for "Top Five" Direct PC Merchant; Product Line Consistently Breaks 70Mb/sec SCSI Barrier.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1999--ANDATACO (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :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 storage, today announced, as part of it's "Keep the Drive Alive" 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 Partner Program, it will develop enhanced versions of its industry-leading GigaRAID storage products with Web Storage Management Software (WSM WSM Samoa (ISO Country code) WSM Wave Structure of Matter WSM Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland) WSM Web Services Management WSM Weston-Super-Mare (Somerset, England) 3.0) for a Top Five, direct channel computer manufacturer. The signing of this OEM agreement will extend the availability of ANDATACO's world-class storage products to a larger market while providing true competitive differentiation in the direct channel Intel-based server market. ANDATACO said its revenues resulting from the agreement are expected to be in the $20 million range over the next several years. "Our partner's decision to carry our GigaRAID line of storage solutions is further evidence that ANDATACO is leading the industry in value, performance and innovation," said W. David Sykes, president, ANDATACO. "Demand for high-performance storage is a driving factor in the NT server market. ANDATACO is convinced that it's products will have a significant impact in the direct channel." The GigaRAID/8000 LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential is the first product available under the "Keep the Drive Alive" Partner Program and is the foundation of ANDATACO's product line. It is the only product to offer OEM channels custom-configured enclosures fully certified for every major disk drive currently available on the market. The GigaRAID/8000 LVD provides backward compatibility to Ultra HVD and SE as well as 160/m. GigaRAID/8000 LVD meets the demand for external storage that is customer replaceable and performs at consistent rates of 70 - 80 MB/sec. ANDATACO develops industry-leading SCSI technology with private label customization, disk drive pre-certification for the fastest time to market, and the most scalable external storage configurations available today. The "Keep the Drive Alive" Program offers proven scalable storage architecture, OEM pricing, dedicated support and regular product and program updates. About ANDATACO: ANDATACO designs and manufactures 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's products include desktop, workgroup and enterprise level artnership Program at http://www.andataco.com. |
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