CLARiiON and Sequent Computer Systems partner to offer customers open storage solutions.SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1996--CLARiiON and Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. today announced that Sequent will 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 the CLARiiON line of RAID storage products. Under their agreement, Sequent will add CLARiiON disk arrays to its storage offerings on its line of high end Symmetry 5000 servers. The CLARiiON disk arrays allow Sequent to extend its high availability protected data capacity into the multiple Terabyte range. "CLARiiON has been partnering with Sequent to solve specific customer storage requirements for the past year," said Larry Hemmerich, Vice President of the CLARiiON Business Unit. "With the signing of this new agreement, we will expand our relationship with Sequent and enable them to offer a value-added, high availability open storage solution to all of Sequent's customers. The business between Sequent and CLARiiON is robust, with units already shipping." "Our customers are demanding multiple terabytes of high availability, secure data storage for their enterprise databases," said John McAdam, President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for Sequent. "We have spent the past two years evaluating storage suppliers. The combination of the strong partnering skills of CLARiiON and their advanced storage technology has resulted in a strategic partnership, which will allow Sequent's customers to continue to grow with the industry's largest open databases." CLARiiON is the preferred provider of high-availability, advanced storage solutions for open enterprise environments worldwide. CLARiiON has experienced significant growth with the development of its sales channels, including OEMs, VARs, private labelers, systems integrators and distributors worldwide. Innovative CLARiiON storage products support a variety of platforms, including Data General's AViiON systems, Silicon Graphic's CHALLENGE servers, Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill systems, 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) RS/6000, Windows NT systems, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers and Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha servers. Over the last several months, CLARiiON has joined forces with two of the world's largest open systems companies to demonstrate data warehousing showcases, in excess of 2.5 terabytes of storage; validating scalability and high speed access from CLARiiON disk arrays. Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SQNT SQNT Sequent Computer Systems (stock symbol) ) develops, manufactures, and sells commercial symmetric multiprocessing systems that support very large-scale on-line transaction processing (database) On-Line Transaction Processing - (OLTP) The processing of transactions by computers in real time. (OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing ), decision support (DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S ) and internet-based applications. Through an extensive range of consulting and professional service offerings, Sequent helps organizations re-architect their existing information technology infrastructures. In addition, Sequent partners closely with other open systems vendors to deliver complete solutions to its customers. Sequent's World Wide Web address is http://www.sequent.com. This news release and other information are available from Sequent's news-on-demand fax service at 800-356-0834. The CLARiiON Business Unit is part of Data General Corporation, an open systems company that specializes in providing servers, storage systems and services to information technology users worldwide. The company, headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts, reported revenues of $1.2 billion in fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com, or http://www.clariion.com. -0- Sequent is a registered trademark of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation All brand and product names appearing in this press release may be product or brand names of their respective holders. CONTACT: Kathy Ficaro Glenn Sullivan CLARiiON Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. (508) 480-7196 (503) 626-5700 Debbie Caldwell The Bernhardt Agency (503) 226-6452 |
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