CLARiiON announces Silicon Graphicswill use CLARiiON disk arrays in challenge server line.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1995 -- The CLARiiON Business Unit of Data General Corp. today announced that Silicon Graphics Inc. will use CLARiiON disk arrays as 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 solutions with Silicon Graphics' CHALLENGE line of network resource servers. CHALLENGE servers offer a high performance system architecture specifically designed to manage very large relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. environments as well as emerging video server applications. The CLARiiON arrays will be used in these markets to ensure the availability of critical customer data. "Both large database and video server applications usually require high availability solutions, of which the RAID 5 and hot pluggable See hot swap. redundant components in the CLARiiON disk subsystem are key parts," said Ross Bott bott n. Variant of bot1. , vice president and general manager of the Advanced Data Division of Silicon Graphics. "We are working with Data General to tune the CHALLENGE and CLARiiON subsystem combination to be one of the highest performing RAID solutions in the marketplace." "The CHALLENGE server has an extremely high performance 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 architecture," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager of the CLARiiON Business Unit. "It provides an ideal match to the high-end characteristics of our CLARiiON offering." CLARiiON disk array storage solutions are differentiated from alternatives by their use of mirrored fast-write caching to achieve optimal RAID 5 performance, and by dual active storage control processors, both of which contribute to array performance and high data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. on a full-time basis. This exclusive combination of features, along with fully redundant components throughout the subsystem, brings users the highest possible levels of data integrity, scalable to over a terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time. (unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes. (Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix. of storage. The CLARiiON Business Unit is part of Data General Corp. CLARiiON high availability disk array technology has been protecting customer data and information in the marketplace for more than three years. CLARiiON advanced storage solutions are available worldwide through a strategic mix of private labelers, OEMs, and key distributors in 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. , Europe and the Far East. Data General Corp. is an open systems company that specializes in providing enterprise servers, storage systems and services to information technology users worldwide. The company, which is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., reported revenues of $1.12 billion in fiscal 1994. -0- CLARiiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corp. Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark and CHALLENGE is a trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. All other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Data General Corp. Bob Palmer, 508/898-6547 or CLARiiON Product Information 1-800-67-ARRAY (In the U.S.) |
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