CLARiiON announces Model 150 Disk Array; establishes new entry point for high performance raid.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The CLARiiON Business Unit of Data General Corp. today established a new entry point for its award winning disk array line with the announcement of the Model 150 disk array, an economical storage solution for mission-critical computing environments. The Model 150 is targeted at low-end 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). and PC server applications requiring high performance, high data integrity storage subsystems with flexibility. The Model 150 is ideal for distributed applications. Virtually all open systems platforms are supported on the new disk arrays. Packaged in a PC-style, deskside or rackmount cabinet, the CLARiiON Model 150 disk array has seven hot-repair slots for disk drive modules, and comes preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. with three two-MB disks in a RAID 5 stripe to facilitate quick and simple installation. Multi-RAID configurations (0,1,3,5,1/0) can be supported concurrently as needs dictate. Up to 28 GB can be configured in a CLARiiON Model 150. Global disk spares are available to automatically and immediately rebuild a failed disk. "The new Clarion Model 150 squarely addresses the need for 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 in the fast-growing low-end PC and UNIX server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. marketplace," says Peter Gibbs Peter Gibbs is a BBC Weather forecaster, born in Sunderland, who appears regularly on BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World and BBC Radio, particularly BBC Radio Four. He is a main weather presenter on the BBC Six O'Clock News, and was previously a main weather presenter on the BBC One , director of Marketing for the CLARiiON Business Unit. "We have combined industry-leading storage subsystem features with an economical package to make this happen." In keeping with the advanced design of the highly successful CLARiiON line, the new disk array model employs redundant subsystems to eliminate single points of failure. Critical elements such as disk, power, and cooling are redundant and can be replaced on-line without tools. Two servers can share the Model 150, providing a low-cost array for entry servers with modest disk requirements. A Windows or Motif based graphical management tool simplifies installation and operation, allowing single point control in enterprise installations. Read-ahead cache ships with the Model 150, utilizing up to 32 MB for sequential read operations. Pricing for the new disk array is $10,995.00 which includes 6 GB disk, 8 MB cache memory, redundant power and cooling, and an interface kit for either SUN, DEC Alpha See Alpha. (processor) DEC Alpha - A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. , 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) or Intel based See Intel-based system. PC servers. CLARiiON will deliver the rackmount version of the Model 150 in Oct. 1995 for emerging applications in the PC server market. The CLARiiON Model 1100/2200 disk array was recently named RAID Product of The Year in the Well-Connected Awards sponsored by Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. magazine. CLARiiON advanced storage solutions are used in a wide range of distributed, centralized and dedicated applications. CLARiiON is distributed by systems vendors, OEM's, private label suppliers, value-added resellers and systems integrators worldwide. The CLARiiON Business Unit is part of Data General Corp. CLARiiON leading disk array technology has been protecting customer data and information for more than four years. CLARiiON products support a variety of platforms, including SUN Sparc systems, IBM RS/6000, Net Ware, NT, OS/2, SCO UNIX and DEX Alpha running Digital UNIX. CLARiiON storage products are available from an ever-expanding network of channel partners serving North America, Europe and the Far East. 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, reported revenues of $1.12 billion in fiscal 1994. CONTACT: Data General Corp. 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