American Megatrends Shipping RAID Controllers to Leading European Companies.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1998-- Editorial Summary -- 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. is currently shipping high-performance RAID controllers to leading European PC Server companies -- Olivetti Computer Worldwide, Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 , and Fujitsu ICL (International Computers Ltd., London) The former name of Fujitsu Services, the European-centered arm of the global Fujitsu Group and one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Computers utilize AMI's RAID controllers in premier servers offered to customers. American Megatrends, Inc. announced today that it is now shipping advanced, high-performance RAID controllers to Europe's leading PC server companies. American Megatrends' RAID solutions have become the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for mid to high-level PC server companies because of fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. , which makes data available to MIS managers 99.9% of the time, even in the event of a drive failure. AMI's RAID controllers are currently being shipped to several of Europe's leading PC Server companies, including Olivetti Computers Worldwide, Mitsubishi Electric and Fujitsu ICL Computers. Olivetti Computers Worldwide offers a complete range of database, application, work-group, file and print servers for enterprises and small to medium-size businesses. Olivetti Computer Worldwide uses American Megatrends MegaRAID Ultra controller (series 428) with clustering for all of their NetStrada server range. Olivetti Computers Worldwide solutions can be seen at CeBIT '98, March 19 - 25, Hannover, Germany, in Hall 1, Booth 6L2. "Olivetti Computers Worldwide uses AMI RAID products in all our servers currently being offered," said Danilo Monaco, Server Marketing Manager of Olivetti Computers Worldwide. "We chose AMI as our preferred RAID controller provider not only for the outstanding performance, but mainly for the cluster functionality offered by their products. The NetStrada offer has been designed to respond to today's needs of continuous processing and we are extremely impressed by the functionality and data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. offered by the AMI controllers." Mitsubishi Electric offers its customers a complete line of server solutions, including small business servers, workgroup servers, departmental servers, and enterprise servers. Mitsubishi utilizes American Megatrends' MegaRAID Ultra (series 428) controller, the MegaRAID Ultra GT (series 434) controller, and the MegaRAID 431 controller throughout their server line. "American Megatrends' products continue to be the number one choice for RAID controllers used throughout our server line," said Nigel Hart, Integration Manager, Server Development for Mitsubishi Electric's PC Division. Fujitsu ICL Computers offers American Megatrends MegaRAID Ultra RAID controller in its cluster server See Microsoft Cluster Server. solutions. The Fujitsu Microsoft Cluster Server Clustering software from Microsoft for Windows NT/2000. It provides rudimentary load balancing and two-node failover, which allows a second server to take over if the first one fails. Cluster Server was formerly code named Wolfpack. (MSCS See Microsoft Cluster Server. ) configuration is based around the company's high-performance teamserver Mi product which, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of Benchmark(TM) C figures, is the fastest intel-based six-way server on the market. "Reliability and availability are key features of our server range and the American Megatrends RAID product ideally complements and supports our offer," said Stephen Roberts, Server Marketing Manager at Fujitsu ICL Computers. "AMI's RAID controllers offer high-performance, fault tolerance functionality and we are very pleased to offer the MegaRAID controller in our clustered server solutions." MegaRAID serves as the technology leading RAID controller onboard the servers of leading companies. Additional information on MegaRAID can be obtained by calling 1-800-828-9264 or visiting the MegaRAID web site at http://www.megaraid.com. As a core technology provider, American Megatrends specializes in developing superior, system level technologies including desktop BIOS, mobile BIOS, RAID products, motherboards, and utilities. For additional information, AMI can be reached at (800) U-BUY-AMI or (770) 246-8600 and on the World Wide Web at http://www.ami.com. CONTACT: American Megatrends Brooke Wallace, 770/246-8609 800/828-9264 FAX 770/246-8790 email: BrookeW@ami.com |
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