CLARiiON and Hewlett-Packard announce OEM agreement to offer customers open storage solutions.WESTBORO Westboro can refer to: Places
Under the OEM agreement, Hewlett-Packard will integrate CLARiiON disk arrays with its line of HP 9000 servers and workstations. The CLARiiON disk arrays allow HP to integrate 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. into its mission critical client/server application environments. This expands HP's portfolio by offering customers scalable storage solutions ranging from deskside to data center. "The relationship between HP and CLARiiON has been evolving over the past year under an earlier agreement," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager of the CLARiiON Business Unit. "With the signing of this OEM agreement, we will not only expand our relationship with HP, but will enable HP to offer a high availability storage solution to all of its customers. The business between HP and CLARiiON to date has been very robust with several thousand units already shipped." "It was the combination of its superior storage technology and the CLARiiON Unit's commitment to future technologies that convinced us to develop our alliance with CLARiiON, thereby providing us with open storage subsystems that continue to meet our growing storage demands," said Bernard Ber·nard , Claude 1813-1878. French physiologist noted for his study of the digestive and nervous systems. Guidon gui·don n. 1. A small flag or pennant carried as a standard by a military unit. 2. A soldier bearing such a flag or pennant. , vice president and general manager of HP's Computer Systems Group. "By providing storage that offers fault-tolerance, high performance and scalability for our 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). system-based open solutions, we can better meet our customers' most critical on-line information needs." CLARiiON is a technology and market leader in providing advanced storage solutions to the open systems marketplace worldwide. Hewlett-Packard Co. is a leading global manufacturer of computing computing - computer , communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 102,300 employees and had revenues of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. The CLARiiON Business Unit is part of Data General Corp. Data General is an open systems company that specializes in providing servers, storage systems and services to information technology users worldwide. The company, headquartered in Westboro, Mass., reported revenues of $1.2 billion in fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at http://www.dg.com. -0- CLARiiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corp. All brand and product names appearing in the press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 or Hewlett-Packard Holly Duncan, 408/447-1665 or CLARiiON Kathy Ficaro, 508/480-7196 |
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