Bell Microproducts and Unisys Corporation Sign Distribution Agreement to Market New Storage Products; Agreement Marks Unisys Storage Systems Division Entry into Indirect Channel Market.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 1996--Bell Microproducts Inc. today announced a distribution agreement with Unisys Corp.'s Storage Systems Division (SSD See solid state disk. ) to distribute their storage products. The distribution agreement finalized between Bell Microproducts and Unisys earlier this month marks Unisys' entry into the indirect channel marketplace to sell its storage products. Bell Microproducts will distribute Unisys storage products for industry leading open systems platforms and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Bell Microproducts will distribute Unisys SSD's Open Data Module (ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) A contract manufacturer that uses its own designs and intellectual property (IP). See contract manufacturer. 3900) and the Open Data RAID (ODR ODR Online Dispute Resolution ODR On-Demand Routing ODR One-Definition Rule (C++) ODR Octal Data Rate (high speed memory interface transfers 8 bits of data per clock cycle) ODR Office of Dispute Resolution 5900). The ODM3900 is a state-of-the-art, injection molded polymer storage enclosure designed to house up to seven devices. It can be configured with RAID for data protection in the enclosure or as a non-RAID, disk only, deskside or rack mount configuration. The ODM3900 is an ideal low cost solution for data storage. The ODR5900 is a high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. subsystem which allows the user to configure from 20GB to 120GB of storage as a RAID 1, 3, 5, 10 or even non-RAID groups. The ODR5900 can scale up to 240GB in a rack mount enclosure for customers requiring large database solutions. Both products will be distributed through Bell Microproducts VARs in both the U.S. and Canada beginning in October 1996. Bell Microproducts' 20 sales and support offices throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. will carry the complete line of ODM3900 and ODR5900 products. This Unisys line of high-capacity, high-performance subsystems products will extend the capability of Bell Microproducts' extensive mass storage product offering to systems requiring the most sophisticated performance. Bell Microproducts will inventory the complete product line for the off-the-shelf delivery. Utilizing its ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 value-added facility, Bell Microproducts' technical staff will deliver custom configurations to customers' specifications within a matter of days. In addition to current products, Bell Microproducts will distribute the planned Unisys SSD fibre channel products. Unisys has entered the fibre channel technology, having announced its thrust into the fibre channel market in late 1995. "Bell Microproducts is pleased to have been chosen as the first channel partner for Unisys Storage Systems Division products," said Phil Roussey, Sr. vice president of Marketing at Bell Microproducts. "The modular polymer design approach, 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 and RAID capability, and the planned fibre channel product offering will allow Bell Microproducts' customers to further utilize Bell Microproducts' mass storage core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
"This announcement demonstrates the commitment Unisys SSD has made to being an industry leader in storage technology and a major player in the indirect channels market," said Carmin E. Lynch, vice president and general manager of Unisys SSD. "Our distribution agreement with market leader Bell Microproducts demonstrates that Unisys SSD will continue to bring its extensive expertise storage subsystems The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. experience to the open systems platforms." Bell Microproducts Inc. Bell Microproducts Inc. is a distributor of high technology products serving the industrial and commercial markets. The company markets a wide range of semiconductor products including memory, logic, microprocessors, and specialty components. The company also offers one of the industry's broadest selection of computer products including hard drives, optical drives, tape drives, PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. devices, subsystems and complete computers systems. In addition, Bell Microproducts offers an extensive set of value-added services including systems integration, testing, kitting, and contract assembly of printed circuit boards and subsystems through its Quadrus Manufacturing Division. Please call 800/697-BELL or visit our home page at www.bellmicro.com for further information about Bell Microproducts. Unisys Storage Systems Division Unisys SSD provides storage products for Unisys enterprise systems and multi-vendor client/server platforms. With its background as a storage provider for Unisys enterprise, and client/server platforms, Unisys SSD brings extensive storage subsystem experience to the distribution market. The division is headquartered in Mission Viejo Mission Vi·e·jo A community of southern California southeast of Irvine. It is mainly residential. Population: 96,300. , Calif. For more information about Unisys storage products, please call 800/854-0609 or access us on the World Wide Web -- http://www.unisys.com/marketplace/ssd/ -- for further information. Unisys -- The Information Management Company Unisys is one of a select group of companies with the portfolio of services, technologies and third party alliances needed to deliver the benefits of information management -- helping clients use their information asset to enhance their competitiveness and responsiveness to customers. Our expertise in information management is founded on the strength of our three global businesses: consulting, solutions and systems integration: industry-leading technologies, and comprehensive services and products supporting distributed computing environments See DCE. Distributed Computing Environment - (DCE) An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks . Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web -- http://www.unisys.com -- for further information. CONTACT: Bell Microproducts Inc., San Jose Phil Roussey, 408/451-9400 |
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