American Megatrends Inc. Announces Ultra 160 Low Profile PCI RAID for 1U and 2U Servers.Business Editors & Technology Writers COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Fall 2000 Booth No. L2449 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2000
Editorial Summary
-- Low profile PCI is a new standard for space-constrained systems
-- The MegaRAID Express 550 is an entry-level Ultra160 PCI SCSI
low profile RAID controller
For more information on this product, and all other AMI products and services, visit Booth L2449 at the Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. Convention Center's North Hall, during Comdex Fall November 13-17, 2000 American Megatrends American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is a Georgia, USA based hardware company that creates PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by the current chairman and president, S. Shankar. Inc. (AMI), the leader in storage and computing innovations worldwide, today announced its first Ultra160 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). 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. low profile RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. , the MegaRAID(R) Express 550. Targeted for 1U and 2U servers, the Express 550 MD2 size RAID controller allows information technology managers to save expensive rack space, reduce co-location costs and increase the available space for RAID storage, routers and other types of adapters. "The low profile form factor available with the Express 550 Ultra160 PCI SCSI RAID controller meets our customers' needs for physically smaller dedicated task servers, such as web, email, firewalls and caching engines," said Siamak Iranpour, AMI director of RAID sales. "In addition to enabling small rackable servers, the low profile board delivers increased value to workstations and network attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) devices that have little space for add-in options." The Express 550 entry-level PCI RAID controller with one Ultra160 SCSI channel offers advanced RAID management utilities and software features, including:
-- WebBIOS(R) browser-user interface (BUI)-based, OS independent
configuration utility at the BIOS level
-- FlexRAID(R), allows administrators to perform on-line capacity
expansion and RAID level migration
-- Power Console(R) Plus, manages and creates disk arrays and
controls and monitors RAID servers
-- 40 logical drives per controller and 15 physical drives per
logical array
-- Smart Init., automatically checks the consistency of logical
drives in RAID 5 applications
-- Auto Resume during array rebuild or reconstruction
About AMI Founded in 1985, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has dedicated its resources to providing OEMs, resellers and systems integrators with leading edge computer technologies. This privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , best known for its Basic Input/Output Systems (operating system) Basic Input/Output System - (BIOS, ROM BIOS) The part of the system software of the IBM PC and compatibles that provides the lowest level interface to peripheral devices and controls the first stage of the bootstrap process, including installing the operating or BIOS, also supplies its state-of-the-art hardware, software, utilities and RAID controllers to over 55 percent of today's high-tech manufacturers. Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S. and throughout the world including London, Madras, Munich, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo to better serve our customers. For more information on AMI, its products, services or reseller opportunities, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit www.ami.com. |
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