American Megatrends Ships Industry's Widest Selection of High Performance RAID Controllers.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 1999-- AMI's New Enterprise, Express and Explorer Lines of RAID Controllers Will Allow Customers to Choose RAID Products Tailored to Their Specific Data Needs and Demands Editorial Summary -- AMI announces the industry's most extensive family of RAID controller products, featuring new product releases in each of the family's three lines. -- AMI customers can tailor RAID solutions now more than ever to specific user needs. -- These products are based on the latest I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output technologies including Ultra2 LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential with the ability to upgrade to 160/M and fibre channel. American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), the world leader in supplying computer manufacturers with state-of-the-art RAID products, today announced its new family of MegaRAID(R) controllers, fulfilling the needs of the largest OEMs to the smallest system integrators. The new family of RAID controllers is also highlighted by new product releases in each of the three lines. With its engineering expertise in BIOS, RAID, motherboard design, diagnostic and management software utilities, AMI has the expertise and infrastructure in place to design and build the industry's most feature-rich RAID controllers that offer the highest levels of performance, availability and manageability. "With support for all RAID levels and advanced MegaRAID management utilities including FlexRAID(R), AMI's on-line capacity expansion and RAID level migration application, AMI's MegaRAID controllers outperform all other controllers in their respective class," said Sanjay Sehgal, AMI's Director of RAID Sales. "And AMI's new generation of RAID controllers fully support Microsoft clustering using MSCS See Microsoft Cluster Server. ." Powered by advanced Intel(R) RISC-based processors, each MegaRAID controller also comes with complete RAID configuration and management software, and an extensive suite of OS drivers including: Linux, Windows(R) NT, Windows(R) 2000, Novell(R) NetWare(R), SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. (R) 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), UNIXWare(R), SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. (R), DOS, Solaris(R) and OS/2(R). AMI's new family of RAID controllers includes: MegaRAID(R) Enterprise AMI's high-end enterprise-level RAID controllers feature multi-channel PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). RAID solutions for dual, quad and eight-way servers. The MegaRAID Enterprise line includes Ultra and Ultra2 LVD solutions including AMI's new 64-bit MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 controller. This high performance Ultra2 LVD 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. RAID controller employs the latest 64-Bit PCI RAID technology using the Intel i960(R)RN I/O processor with a 100 MHz internal JX core. Surrounded completely by 64-bit architecture, along with four Ultra2 SCSI channels, the Enterprise 1500 reaches sustained sequential throughput of 210 MB/sec. and a random I/O rate of more than 8,000 I/Os per second. The Enterprise 1500 is the only 64-bit PCI RAID controller that offers an upgrade path to support 160M SCSI in Q4 `99 with a data transfer rate of 160 MB/sec. per SCSI channel. The controller also stores up to 128 MB cache using a single, industry standard ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module and on-board battery backup for cache memory. The Enterprise 1500 also features AMI's WebBIOS(TM), a revolutionary RAID utility that features a browser-user interface (BUI BUI Boating Under the Influence BUI Browser User Interface BUI Bristol Urological Institute BUI Build Up Index BUI Bicycling Under the Influence BUI Badminton Union of Ireland BUI Bus Unit Interface BUI Business User Interface BUI Button User Interface )-based, OS independent configuration utility at the BIOS level. MegaRAID(R) Explorer AMI also features a series of OS independent, external RAID controllers for flexible storage subsystems. The MegaRAID Explorer line includes the MegaRAID Explorer 500, AMI's Fibre-to-LVD external RAID controller. The 3.5" form factor external RAID controller features two fibre channels for host connection and two Ultra2 LVD SCSI channels to the drives. Powered by Intel's 64-bit i960(R)RN processor with embedded RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. running at 100 MHz and surrounded completely by true 64-bit bus architecture, the Explorer 500 can reach a sustained data transfer rate of greater than 110 MB/sec. The Explorer 500 also offers unmatched fault tolerant features such as on-board battery backup, auto-detection of failed drives and configuration on disk. With multiple hardware configurations, including a canister version and back-plane version, the Explorer 500 is the ideal solution for storage area network (SAN) environments. The external RAID controller also includes configurable cache support using up to 128 MB ECC SDRAM, enhancing its performance beyond EDO-based external controllers. MegaRAID(R) Express For cost-sensitive single to dual processor servers and performance workstations, AMI offers the MegaRAID Express line of high speed, low-cost PCI RAID controllers. This line includes zero channel controllers that convert a server motherboard's own SCSI channels into high-performance RAID channels, as well as single channel LVD solutions with up to 100 MHz I/O processors, including the new MegaRAID Express 300. This low-cost, high performance, single-channel controller with available MSCS clustering support, also includes configurable cache using up to 128 MB ECC SDRAM. "With our family of advanced RAID products, extensive engineering experience and technical support, AMI is positioned now more than ever to meet the most specific needs and demands of new and existing customers in OEM and channel markets," said Sehgal. 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 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 our website at www.ami.com. Key Words: Redundant Arrays of Integrated Disks (RAID), SCSI, Fibre, External RAID, Clustering, MSCS, Wolfpack |
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