Avid Sports to Resell CLARiiON Disk Arrays to NFL, NBA, and NCAA Teams.SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 1997-- CLARiiON Signs Strategic Reselling Agreement With Leading Digital Video Vendor To Sports Teams And Organizations CLARiiON, the world's leading supplier of open RAID-based disk arrays and a Data General company, today announced a new strategic reselling agreement with the leading digital video technology vendor in the sports industry -- Avid Sports. Under terms of the agreement, Avid Sports will resell CLARiiON(r) FC5000 Series Fibre Channel Disk Arrays. "Our charter is to concentrate on the unique needs of sports teams, athletic departments, and leagues," said Dave Grandin, president of Avid Sports. "The addition of CLARiiON storage products to our portfolio will revolutionize the way coaches and players analyze games, scout opponents, and improve player development. The speed and reliability of the CLARiiON solution is essential for providing coaches and players instant access to video for game preparation." Grandin added, "The competition is just playing catch-up ball." "We're extremely pleased with this agreement as it marks our first foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my the sports market with a strategic partner able to offer the highest level of technical expertise," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager for CLARiiON. "CLARiiON technology will enable Avid Sports to offer their customers extraordinary performance packaged in the world's most scalable online storage solution." About the CLARiiON FC5000 Series On June 10, 1997, CLARiiON introduced its Multidimensional Storage Architecture(tm) (MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. ), a strategic new framework for deploying open systems storage throughout an enterprise 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. business needs and application requirements. It is based on the industry's most advanced implementation of fibre channel technology, and delivers the benefits of virtually unlimited scalability, centralized management, and parallel deployment. Concurrently with this announcement, CLARiiON announced the FC5000 Series, a family of scalable, high performance disk arrays also based on the fibre channel interface standard, and the industry's first comprehensive family of all-fibre channel products. The CLARiiON FC5000 Series leverages MSA to implement application-configured storage pools that can be scaled independently in five dimensions - capacity, 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 performance, data throughput, connectivity, and data availability. It delivers state-of-the-art online storage that is fully upgradable from JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks (Just a Bunch Of Disks See JBOD. (jargon, storage) Just a Bunch Of Disks - (JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Drives") A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives, as opposed to one form of RAID or another. ) to highly available RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) subsystems. RAID technology delivers beneficial data availability and performance effects by allowing a disk array to sustain disk failures without losing their ability to read and write data for applications, while also protecting against data loss. The FC5000 Series can be configured with RAID protection using host-based software RAID or host-based hardware RAID. About Avid Sports Avid Sports is the leader in digital video solutions designed specifically for sports analysis and used by top NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga , NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= , and NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association teams. Avid Sports solutions are dramatically changing the way sports team use video for game analysis, self-scouting, and player development. For further information regarding Avid Sports and its digital video analysis technology, call 508/275-0200. About CLARiiON With more than 50,000 disk arrays shipped, CLARiiON supplies advanced storage solutions to major computer system manufacturers, value-added storage resellers, and system integrators around the world. CLARiiON high availability solutions are based on Multidimensional Storage Architecture and feature a full range of flexible, scalable products for 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). and Windows NT platforms, including 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. arrays, end-to-end fibre channel arrays, and enterprise storage pool management software. For more information regarding CLARiiON and its enterprise storage solutions, call 800-67-ARRAY, email info@clariion.com, or visit its home page at http://www.clariion.com Data General Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ), headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage systems, and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.3 billion for fiscal 1996. Additional information on Data General Corp., its products, and its services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com -0- CLARiiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corporation. SportsPro, SportsView, and the Avid Sports Network Solution are trademarks of Avid Sports. All brand and product names appearing in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Data General Corp. Jim Dunlap 508/898-6546 jim_dunlap@dg.com or Brodeur Porter Novelli David Resnic 617/587-2841 dresnic@brodeur.com or CLARiiON Nicole Gorman 508/480-7203 ngorman@clariion.com |
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