CLARiiON announces Applications Transparent Failover (ATF) for Microsoft Windows NT; Enhances high-availability for servers connected to one or more CLARiiON disk arrays.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 1996--CLARiiON, the world's leading provider of open RAID-based storage systems and a business unit of Data General Corp., today announced the availability of CLARiiON Applications Transparent Failover (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 ) software for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT 3.51 and 4.0 at the Windows NT Intranet Solutions Conference & Exposition. ATF software, for servers connected to one or more CLARiiON disk arrays, facilitates automatic re-routing of 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. 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 traffic in the event of a primary path failure. Failover to the redundant I/O path is transparent to the server's applications software, and occurs in seconds, permitting continuous access to the information sorted on the disk array(s). ATF offers many benefits for the user, including: -- Insulates server applications from I/O failures to provide continuous access to mission-critical data. -- Installs easily and transparently to server applications; no changes required to kernel or applications code. -- Supports simultaneous, full bandwidth usage of CLARiiON disk array's dual storage processors (SP), unlike other arrays that require a passive standby storage processor. -- Compatible with CLARiiON GuardWare and HACMP HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (IBM) HACMP High Availability Clustered Multi Processing server failover software and CLARiiON ArrayGUIde array management software. "The Windows NT Server marketplace is growing three times the rate of any other operating system. IDC expects the NT disk storage revenue to surpass $1.5 billion this year and grow to over $4.7 billion by the end of the decade. This is a required OS to support in order to remain competitive," stated Tom Lahive, senior storage analyst at IDC. "CLARiiON has entered into a rapidly growing market and as this market continues to expand, end-users will be seeking storage systems able to provide continuous data access for their NT systems," said Peter Gibbs, director of marketing for CLARiiON. "CLARiiON has been delivering the highest-availability, reliability, and scalability features to the 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). market for some time, and we will deliver the same industry leading attributes to the NT marketplace." CLARiiON was the pioneer for auto I/O path failover for UNIX servers, which have historically been the preferred open systems technology for mission critical applications -- introducing ATF for Sun Solaris in 1995 and 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. in 1996. Today, many of the CLARiiON UNIX 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 strategic partners such as Data General, Hewlett Packard, Silicon Graphics, Tektronix and others, have developed their own "ATF-like" I/O path re-routing capability, based on the unique CLARiiON dual active storage processor architecture. ATF now supports: Microsoft Windows NT 3.5.1 and 4.0 SPARCservers running Sun Solaris 2.4 or 2.5 and IBM RS/6000 systems running AIX versions 3.2.5, 4.1.3, 4.1.4. CLARiiON advanced storage solutions, with over 500 combined manpower years of array experience, over 100 million hours of customer satisfaction, and over 25,000 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 environments to the rackmount Series 2000 system designed for enterprise-level computing environments into the multi-terabyte range. CLARiiON disk arrays are distributed by OEMs, private label suppliers, value-added resellers (VARs), and system integrators worldwide, serving North America, South America, Europe, South 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, Mass., 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 Corp. 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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