CLARiiON Announces Fibre Channel Storage Solutions for Sun Microsystems' New PCI I/O-Based Ultra 30 Workstations and Ultra Enterprise Servers.SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1997-- CLARiiON, Emulex Corporation, and Orca Systems, Inc. Join Forces to Create Sun-Compatible Storage Solutions CLARiiON, the world's leading supplier of open RAID-based disk arrays and a Data General company (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) ), today announced its fibre channel storage solutions for the new Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. PCI-based Ultra-30 Workstations and Ultra Enterprise Servers. The Sun-compatible CLARiiON disk arrays - the CLARiiON Series 3000 and FC5000 Series - will be available with unique attach kits that contain products jointly developed with fibre channel leader technology leaders Emulex Corporation and Sun/Solaris OS specialist Orca Systems, Inc. "The CLARiiON/Emulex relationship was a natural fit," said Michael Peitler, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Emulex. "Both companies have been leading the industry in the adoption of fibre channel technology. The Emulex product contained in the specialized CLARiiON attach kit includes the necessary features to support the 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. demands that will be typical for high performance servers, including channel failover and enterprise management." The new CLARiiON attach kits include an industry leading Emulex LightPulse 6000 (LP6000) gigabit fibre channel PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). host adapter Also called a "controller" or "host bus adapter," it is a device that connects one or more peripheral units to a computer. It is typically an expansion card that plugs into the bus. IDE and SCSI are examples of peripheral interfaces that call their controllers host adapters. See host. with an optimized Solaris PCI driver. Emulex designed the LP6000 Solaris driver with Orca Systems for the new Sun PCI-based workstations and servers. "Emulex's fibre channel adapters are the ideal choice for providing the highest 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 throughput rates demanded by Sun's PCI based servers," said Alan Langerman, a principal of Orca Systems. "Combined with Orca's multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading , robust Solaris software driver and CLARiiON fibre channel disk arrays, even the largest OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing and Data Warehouse applications may now be constructed using open systems." "With this announcement, we are significantly distancing ourselves from the nearest competition by offering a decisive product differentiator for the storage industry," added Steve Halzel, system integration manager for CLARiiON. "Our disk arrays, combined with the specialized adapter and driver, provide the greatest levels of connectivity, performance, and scalability available today." The CLARiiON Series 3000 and FC5000 Series, along with the Emulex Solaris LightPulse fibre channel device driver, have been verified by Sun as part of its third party PCI compatibility testing Compatibility testing, part of software non-functional tests, is testing conducted on the application to evaluate the application's compatibility with the computing environment. program. Each CLARiiON disk array provides fully redundant subsystems capable of throughput of 90 - 100 MB/second and I/O performance of 18,000 - 20,000 I/O/second to meet the most demanding I/O requirements. "This announcement confirms our commitment to continue delivering the open, standards-based storage technology necessary to meet our customer's evolving needs. We're delighted to have participated in and completed the Verification Testing," said Gary Wright Gary Wright (born 26 April 1943, Cresskill, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American musician, most famous for his song, "Dream Weaver". Career Wright, a personal friend of George Harrison, appeared in a TV show at the age of seven. , director of product marketing for CLARiiON. "Our customers can be assured that CLARiiON fibre channel disk arrays have complete compatibility with the new Sun PCI-based Ultra Enterprise Workstations and Servers." General availability for both the CLARiiON Series 3000 and FC5000 Series disk arrays for the new Sun PCI-based Ultra Enterprise Workstations and Servers is scheduled for later this summer. About the CLARiiON Series 3000 and FC5000 Series Disk Arrays To help enterprises migrate to fibre channel technology as easily as possible, CLARiiON provides a migration path using the industry's most strategic 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. disk array - the CLARiiON Series 3000. The fibre channel attachment upgrade for the Series 3000 makes it simple to develop a flexible migration plan. Starting with a robust RAID solution, users can install Series 3000 disk arrays with a SCSI host attachment today, then upgrade in the future to a fibre channel attachment as business needs dictate. This migration plan provides unparalleled investment protection, offering proven SCSI RAID storage from the industry leader today, then enhancing that storage investment with connectivity, performance, and scaling advantages of fibre channel in the future. The CLARiiON FC5000 Series, a family of scalable, high performance disk arrays based on the fibre channel interface standard, is the first comprehensive family of "all-fibre channel" products and the world's most scalable online storage solution. Each CLARiiON fibre channel array builds on the proven CLARiiON heritage of highly available RAID while exploiting fibre channel technology to provide industry-leading performance and nondisruptive capacity upgrades for the open systems storage market. Both the Series 3000 and the FC5000 Series operate under the industry leading CLARiiON enterprise storage management tools suite featuring such products as CLARalert(tm) (remote diagnostics Vehicle Diagnostics Vehicle diagnostics enables a mechanic to diagnose the exact mechanical condition of the vehicle and its systems and components. Remote Diagnostics enables to perform such diagnosis without requiring the vehicle to physically be present for checkup. service program), Application Transparent Failover(tm) (ATF ATF Molecular virology Activating transcription factor A cellular protein that stimulates transcription of adenovirus E4 transcription unit, which acts early in infection at any of several 'enhancer' binding sites ) (redundant I/O path management), as well as other CLARiiON performance monitoring and management tools. About Orca Systems, Inc. Founded in 1991, Orca Systems, Inc., is a Massachusetts-based consulting and product development organization specializing in fibre channel technology and clustered systems. Consulting services include SCSI and IP device drivers for fibre channel, and development and modification of advanced Unix and NT operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. features. Orca is producing software permitting the construction of high performance clusters connected via fibre channel for database acceleration. A particular focus is exploiting fibre channel as a high performance I/O channel See channel. and network for scaleable clusters. Orca's clients include, among others, CLARiiON, Emulex Network Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, The Open Group, Encore Computer Corporation, and Stratus. Orca is a member of the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. X3T11 Fibre Channel Committee and VIA. For further information, send electronic mail to info@orca.com or visit its World Wide Web site at http://www.orca.com About Emulex Corporation Emulex is a leading developer of fibre channel technology, a high-performance ANSI standard interface, and an active participant in the 120+ member Fibre Channel Association (FCA FCA Abbreviation for the Free Carrier ), which includes Sun Microsystems, 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) , Hewlett-Packard and Seagate. Fibre channel architecture is uniquely designed to serve both local area networking and peripheral I/O communications needs and has scaleable transmission speeds from 266 Mbps to 1.062 Gbps over distances of up to 10 kilometers. The Company markets to OEMs and end-users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as two-tier distribution partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California Costa Mesa is a suburban middle class city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 108,724 at the 2000 census. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to a suburban city with an economy based on . News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation may be found at http://www.emulex.com 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 the Multidimensional Storage Architecture and feature a full range of flexible, scalable products for UNIX and Windows NT platforms, including SCSI 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 World Wide Web (www) site at http://www.clariion.com Data General Corporation, 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. All brand and product names appearing in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Nicole Gorman CLARiiON 508/480-7203 ngorman@clariion.com OR David Resnic Brodeur Porter Novelli 617/587-2841 dresnic@brodeur.com OR Jim Dunlap Data General 508/898-6546 jim_dunlap@dg.com OR Teri Blackledge Emulex Corporation 714/513-8156 OR Carol Bardia Bardia International 714/661-4183 OR Alan Langerman Orca Systems, Inc. 617/926-1399 |
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