Amdahl Boosts Performance and Enhances Premium Service Offering for its Enterprise Open Systems Servers; Offers Performance Increases Up To 50 Percent and Adds Integration Services For Faster, Safer Server Deployment.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 1995--Amdahl Corporation today announced enhancements to its open systems servers that deliver dramatic performance increases over its current systems with no increase in price. It also launched an expanded Premium Level service offering for these systems, adding a ProStart training and consulting service and a Performance Assessment service to its existing 24x7, 2-hour response support. These offerings reinforce Amdahl's on-going commitment to integrate and deliver highly competitive enterprise IT solutions.

The new servers utilize Sun Microsystem Inc.'s 85MHz SuperSPARC II processor to deliver a performance boost of up to 50 percent for commercial applications such as data warehousing and on-line transaction processing. This increased capacity allows customers to support more transactions, applications and users, resulting in a greater return on their investment. The new 85MHz systems include the SPARCsummit 6400E Enterprise Server, the SPARCserver 1000E and the SPARCcenter 2000E multiprocessing servers.

Enhanced Service Speeds Deployment

Amdahl's redefined Premium Level service for open systems servers enhances the existing 24x7, 2-hour response customer support for which Amdahl is highly rated worldwide. The addition of the ProStart service and Performance Assessment service enable large organizations to bring open systems server solutions into production more safely and cost-effectively with greater ease. With the ProStart service, customers receive systems administration training and consulting in key application deployment areas such as network integration and database setup and configuration. With the Performance Assessment service, customers receive Amdahl's A+Performance Management Suite of products and up to six months of performance monitoring and analysis during the period when applications are being deployed into full production.

"With this announcement, Amdahl affirms its leadership in the server market," said Michael Carabetta, vice president and general manager of Amdahl's Open Enterprise Systems business unit. "Redefining our Premium Level service is our response to our customers' increasing need for services that enable them to successfully deploy mission-critical client/server applications. Now, not only do we offer our large-scale commercial customers the broadest and most scalable line of servers in the industry but also exceptional service and value."

Amdahl has rapidly become one of Sun Microsystem's largest partners, having sold more than 500 SPARCserver and SPARCcenter systems worldwide since signing a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems two years ago. The Company has been very successful in selling SPARCserver and SPARCcenter solutions into its established base of large-systems customers. With the recent addition of the SPARCsummit 6400E Enterprise Server from Cray Research, Amdahl has rounded out its server offering to provide solutions for high-end commercial applications.

Availability

The new Amdahl 85MHz open systems servers and system upgrades for existing 60MHz systems are available immediately. Support for the 85MHz processor is provided with the Solaris 2.4 operating system. About Amdahl

Amdahl Corporation (AMEX:AMH) is a worldwide supplier of large scale mainframe computers, UNIX systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software and a variety of educational and consulting services. Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use across all types of computing environments. -0-

Note to Editors: Amdahl is a registered trademark and A+Performance is a trademark of Amdahl Corporation. Sun Microsystems is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SPARCcenter, SPARCserver and SuperSPARC II are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc and licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPARCsummit is a trademark of SPARC International, Inc. and licensed exclusively to Amdahl Corporation. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed bySun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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