BCC'S 10K AND 15K EXTENDER DISK DRIVES -EDD- NOW SUPPORT HIGH-SPEED LINK WITHIN ISERIES MODELS.BCC Technologies, long-time provider of storage solutions for the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) iSeries marketplace, has announced their 10K RPM and 15K RPM Extender(TM) Disk Drive (EDD Noun 1. EdD - a doctor's degree in education DEd, Doctor of Education doctor's degree, doctorate - one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university ) family now supports all models of IBM's iSeries and AS/400 mid-range computers. This complete support of the iSeries is based on newly added connectivity of BCC's disks with IBM's High Speed Link (HSL (Hue Saturation Luminosity) A color space similar to HSB. See HSB. ) that provides the fastest attachment of disks to the iSeries. With this announcement, BCC's EDD family of disk systems now runs on all models of the iSeries that support IBM's super-fast HSL technology for maximum data throughput, including the 270, 820, 830 and 840 iSeries plus 5074 and 5079 Storage Towers. The new level of performance in HSL technology is designed to use high-performance and high-capacity disks to support demanding applications on the iSeries like ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. and Collaborative Computing. "BCC's full support for HSL connectivity means that we can now provide the fastest versions of the iSeries platform with the fastest disk subsystems available," said John Gimpl III, vice president of sales at BCC Technologies. "Our 10K and 15K EDD disks provide response-time improvements of as much as 177 percent over any alternative, making BCC the alternate choice of record today for iSeries users." BCC is the only manufacturer of internal disk for the iSeries besides IBM, and the only maker of both disk and tape products for the iSeries. This positions BCC to take full advantage of the demand for high-performance storage in IBM's iSeries market today. HSL technology currently supports up to 1,080 disk drives. Using IBM's 17GB 10K RPM drives, the investment is $2,721,600 ($2,520 list/drive) and performance is 69,120 Operations Per Second (64 OPS/drive). By contrast, 1,080 BCC 17GB 10K RPM drives cost $1,512,000 (a savings of $1,209,600) and deliver 84,240 OPS Ops (ŏps), in Roman religion, goddess of harvests. She was the wife of Saturn, by whom she bore Jupiter and Juno. At her festivals, the Opiconsivia and the Opalia, held in August and December, respectively, she was worshiped as a goddess of sowing (29 percent greater performance). Using faster BCC 17GB drives with 15K RPM rotational velocity costs $2.16 million (a savings of $561,600) and deliver 123,120 OPS (78 percent greater than the IBM offering). |
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