Amdahl's New LVS 4800 Open Storage System Offers a Robust Cross-Platform Solution.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1999--

LVS 4800's Improved Connectivity, Performance, Price/performance,

and Total Cost of Ownership Strengthen Amdahl Storage Strategy.

Amdahl(R) Corporation today announced the LVS(TM) 4800 Open Storage System.

Joining the LVS(TM) 4600, the 4800 is the newest technology component of Amdahl's Integrated Information Suite (AIIS) strategy, which supports information delivery any time, anywhere across OS/390(R), UNIX(R), and Windows NT(R) platforms. The AIIS storage strategy helps customers increase productivity and reduce total cost of ownership, while they take advantage of new ways to use information to enhance business goals, including web-hosting, e-commerce, data warehousing, and decision support.

"The LVS 4800 storage system is the high-performance, reliable storage offering that delivers scalable, complete data protection for both the department and enterprise storage environments," said David West, vice president, Systems Marketing at Amdahl Corporation. "With the 4800, customers can take advantage of the latest storage technology, while preserving their investment in previous generations of LVS products. We expect to continue to provide storage solutions that help business gain competitive advantage and increase revenue."

John McArthur of IDC states, "Amdahl continues to enhance the LVS 4000 family with the introduction of the 4800 Series. The 4800 provides higher throughput, performance, availability, and flexibility in open systems storage for mission-critical applications on multiple platforms throughout the enterprise."

The LVS 4800 is designed for today's SAN environments, based on robust Fibre Channel storage technology provided by LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. "We are pleased that Amdahl has chosen LSI Logic as its partner in enhancing its powerful LVS open storage system offerings," said Mitch Seigle, director of OEM Sales and Marketing, LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. "Over the past three years LSI and Amdahl have worked closely together to develop and deliver leading-edge, highly interoperable open storage solutions. Today's announcement represents another significant step forward in our strategic partnership."

The LVS 4800 is ideal for heterogeneous operating environments needing industry-leading price/performance, and, depending on application and operating environment, end-users may see a 30- to 50-percent increase in performance over the LVS 4600. The LVS 4800 offers no single point of failure (NSPF) through a redundant and hot-pluggable active component architecture, and has been developed to meet the current and future demands for open storage. This third generation of the LVS 4000 family is an effective solution for large-scale open storage requirements for the Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows NT platforms.

About Open Systems Storage Products: http://www.amdahl.com/doc/products/ess/start.html

About Amdahl Corporation: www.amdahl.com/about

For the Year 2000 compliance status of this offering and any others, visit the Amdahl Year 2000 Web site at: www.amdahl.com/y2k

Amdahl is a registered trademark and LVS is a trademark of Amdahl Corporation. OS/390 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation used under license. UNIX is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at www.amdahl.com, the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing.