Artecon and Ingram Micro Announce Distribution Agreement at IT Forum '97'.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1997-- -- Open-systems RAID and unique integration components now available from Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. -- Artecon, a leading manufacturer and systems integrator specializing in open-systems products and solutions, announced today it has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc., the world's leading wholesale distributor of technology products and services. Artecon's LynxStak and LynxArray RAID systems will be the first cross-platform 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 products to be distributed by Ingram Micro, and the agreement gives resellers easier access to host-independent and operating system-transparent RAID solutions. Ingram Micro has established a substantial inventory of Artecon products to be stocked at multiple distribution centers, including: -- The versatile and modular LynxStak RAID system thatble subsystems for disk, tape, and optical dri is the world's largest computer products distnt allows Artecon to leverage Ingram Micro's premier reseller channels as well as strengthen relationshipsMicro Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IM), headquartered in Santa Ann 36,000 products to over 100,000 resellers in d categories: workstation and server rack solutions; power; and mass storage. The company has subsidiarie. 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