CLARiiON and Hewlett Packard Company expand strategic OEM relationship; CLARiiON to provide high availability storage solution for the HP 3000.SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1996--CLARiiON, the world's leading provider of open RAID-based storage systems and a business unit of Data General Corporation, announced today it is expanding its strategic OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and relationship with Hewlett Packard Company to which it already provides CLARiiONr disk arrays for the HP 9000 servers and workstations. The CLARiiON Series 1000 and Series 2000 disk arrays, branded as the Model 10 and 20 respectively by HP, will now provide 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. storage element for the HP 3000 server. "For customers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. high availability hardware solutions, the CLARiiON Series 1000 and 2000 disk arrays provide the HP 3000 with a new level of robustness, performance, capacity, and configuration capabilities over the older HP-FL (fiber link) arrays," said Vicki Symonds, Product Manager at HP's Commercial Systems Division. "The arrays are a great improvement, providing a more flexible and much faster solution compared to our previous array solution." "As our capabilities expand in the HP environment, and our relationship continues to grow, CLARiiON is redefining what it means to be mid-range," said Matt Durkin, director of sales for CLARiiON. "The mid-range market is moving to much higher levels of storage capacity, performance, and data protection, and we are delivering the technology expertise our customers need in order to provide their end-users with the leading enterprise level storage solutions." Durkin added, "The growth in our relationship with HP is also a testament to the level of dedication and commitment CLARiiON provides to each of its strategic partners." CLARiiON Storage Solutions The CLARiiON Series 1000 and 2000 disk arrays are based on an uncompromising design philosophy balancing performance and reliability with flexibility, addressing the dynamic storage needs of the open enterprise. Each disk array includes all of the CLARiiON pioneered features such as: completely redundant components to eliminate single points of failure, dual-active storage processors, hot repair of all components, and concurrent support for multi-RAID configurations (0, 1, 3, 5, and 1/0). In addition, with the newly announced 9 GB drives, comes the ability for 720 GB of storage to be delivered in a rackmount configuration in less than 5 square feet of floor space -- unmatched density in the storage subsystems' market. o The CLARiiON Series 1000 offers an economical entry-level solution to ever expanding storage requirements and is ideal for small-to medium-scale, mission-critical computing environments. It is designed to grow -- easily and progressively -- supporting up to ten drives and up to 88 GB of data storage. In addition, the Series 1000 caching features enhance overall system performance, with write-cache that maintains data integrity, and read- ahead cache for sequential operations Noun 1. sequential operation - the sequential execution of operations one after another consecutive operation, serial operation operation - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing . o The CLARiiON Series 2000 disk array is the leading storage solutions for medium-to-large-scale, mission-critical computing environments. Each model can be configured with up to twenty drives, providing a total capacity of 176 GB. In addition, the Series 2000 offers caching features that enhance data integrity, while reducing response time and improving system performance. Hewlett Packard Company HP 3000 The HP 3000 Servers are highly expandable, high performance servers offering ease of use and superior value for its performance class. The server family combines the advantages of HP Precision Architecture RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. (PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. ) technology and symmetrical multiprocessing to deliver leading edge performance today, and expansion for performance upgrades in the future. Powerful hardware is driven by a robust 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. , MPE/iX, designed to handle a variety of business critical data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a applications. MPE/iX offers powerful system management utilities, high availability options, tools for performance measurement and monitoring, and built-in features to ensure data integrity. All HP 3000 systems are complemented by a full range of high quality HP peripherals, industry standards networking, a rich set of application development facilities, several high performance database management solutions, and advanced PC and Desktop integration products. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 108,300 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. CLARiiON advanced storage solutions, with over 500 combined manpower years of array experience, over 100 million hours of customer satisfaction, and over 30,000 systems running worldwide, is the world's leader in open RAID-based disk array storage technology. CLARiiON disk arrays range from the entry-level Model 150 designed to support PC LAN (1) A network of IBM or IBM-compatible PCs. (2) A network of any variety of computers. environments to the rackmount Series 2000 system designed for enterprise-level computing environments to the multi-terabyte range. CLARiiON disk arrays are distributed by OEMs, private label suppliers, value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. (VARs), and system integrators worldwide, serving North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , the Middle East, and Asia. For further information regarding CLARiiON and its family of industry leading disk arrays, please call 1-800-67-ARRAY 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 $1.2 billion for fiscal 1995. 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: CLARiiON Kathy Ficaro or Nicole Gorman, 508/480-7196 or 7203 or Brodeur & Partners Jeff Aubin, 617/622-2841 or Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 |
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