Amdahl Announces High Performance RAID Capability for Clustered Windows NT Market; New Entry Level of the Highly Successful LVS 4000 Family Is Now Available for Windows NT Enterprise.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1997--Amdahl Corporation today announced the LVS LVS Linux Virtual Server LVS Live Vaccine Strain LVS Las Vegas, New Mexico (Airport Code) LVS Low Voltage Switchgear LVS Logistical Vehicle System LVS Laser Vibration Sensor LVS Logistics Vehicle System 4100(TM) Storage System, a new addition to the LVS family of products targeted at the exploding Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT(r) cluster market. The LVS 4100 meets the needs of these customers requiring the high performance, full availability and manageability that the LVS Series has become known for but at an entry level. "The demand for storage products aimed at the 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. market is exploding," said John Webster of The Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. . "With the announcement of the LVS 4100, Amdahl leverages its years of experience gained in supplying storage solutions to corporate data centers, and extends data center-style storage attributes -- scalability, high performance, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. -- to the Windows NT environment." Beginning at 13 gigabytes of RAID capable storage supporting multiple Windows NT nodes, the LVS 4100 is upgradable to the LVS 4500 which scales to multiple terabytes of storage. The LVS 4100 offers high performance and high availability features which are consistent with the overall design of the LVS family. With capacity for up to 91 gigabytes of storage, the LVS 4100 can scale large enough for most departmental servers. Performance features include fast data pipes, up to 32 megabytes of cache and dedicated RAID parity assist logic. Availability features include multiple RAID levels (0,1,0/1,3,5), hot pluggable See hot swap. components and battery backed cache. To manage the system, the LVS 4100 uses the same sophisticated GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. manager for configuration, monitoring and tuning found in the enterprise level LVS 4500. With the announcement of the LVS 4100, Amdahl provides an entry level storage system with robust features at an extremely competitive price. "We have taken a feature rich storage family to a level that enables implementation on entry level and departmental systems" said Charles Foley, Vice President of Marketing Server Business Group. "Coupled with our high performance EnVista(TM) line of Windows NT Servers, the LVS 4100 completes the high availability and high performance solution needed by today's emerging Windows NT clustered server market." With the LVS family of products, Amdahl offers storage for smaller systems such as the branch office with expansion to large data center systems. The LVS 4100 is available immediately. Amdahl has more than two decades of experience in working with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer sites which blend Windows NT, MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. 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). (r) operating systems. Worldwide ongoing service for the LVS 4100 is provided by Amdahl Customer Services, offering particular service requirements through a set of service options that can include warranty uplift, product installation, software support and consulting services. About Amdahl Amdahl Corporation (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :AMH AMH Abington Memorial Hospital (Abington, PA) AMH Anti-Müllerian Hormone AMH Australian Medicines Handbook AMH Automated Material Handling AMH Aviation Structural Mechanic (Hydraulics) US Navy Rating ) provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with best-of-breed offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries. -0- Amdahl is a registered trademark and LVS 4100, LVS 4500 and EnVista are trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license in non-exclusive) through X/Open Company. All other trademarks and product names are property of their respective owners. -0- Note to Editors: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet through Amdahl Corporation's home page at http://www.amdahl.com . The Amdahl home pages provide current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing, including Amdahl's Intranet Services. CONTACT: Amdahl Corporation Pattie Davis, 408/746-6158 pfd10@amail.amdahl.com |
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