CLARiiON expands open raid-based storage solutions to Australia; CLARiiON and Mitsui Computer Limited sign strategic distributor agreement.SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1996--CLARiiON, the world's leading provider of open RAID-based disk array storage subsystems and a business unit of Data General Corporation, today announced it has entered into a strategic distributor relationship with Mitsui Computer Limited (Australia) that will allow Mitsui to provide open RAID-based storage solutions in Australia. Under the agreement, Mitsui will distribute the industry leading line of CLARiiON disk arrays (Series 100, 1000, and 2000), as well as CLARiiON GuardWare software and 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, to their existing customers as well as to potential customers in emerging application environments. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. industry experts at IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) , "The Australian market accounted for 1.7 percent of world IT revenues in 1994 -- a contribution of $7.7 billion." "CLARiiON is proud to be joining with Mitsui in such a fast growing and exciting marketplace as Australia," said Larry Hemmerich, Vice President and General Manager for CLARiiON. "They are exactly the partner we were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. to address that market -- a recognized open systems leader, with highly skilled systems integration and support capabilities, and a proven track record for turning leading edge technologies into strong businesses." "We are very satisfied with CLARiiON storage as we have found it delivers the highest-availability and greatest scalability obtainable today," said Derek Withey, National Manager/Open Systems Division for Mitsui. "It has allowed Mitsui to provide total hardware and software solutions to our existing end-user customer base, as well as develop customers in emerging market segments, such as multimedia and publishing. Furthermore, CLARiiON products permit Mitsui to offer the most competitive upgrade programs, both hardware and software, for existing PC and 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). sites, in addition to providing a significant complementary enhancement for all future sales of PCs and Unix servers." CLARiiON Storage Solutions The CLARiiON Series 100 disk array offers an economical storage solution for mission-critical computing environments and is ideally suited for low-end UNIX and PC servers requiring storage subsystems that provide both flexibility and maturity. It has ample capacity for growth and offers up to 63 GB of disk capacity with 32 MB of cache memory. The CLARiiON Series 1000 disk array is ideal for small- to medium-scale, mission-critical computing environments and is designed to grow - easily and progressively - supporting up to ten drives and up to 90 GB of data storage. Moving up to the CLARiiON Series 2000 disk array brings the leading storage solutions for medium- to large-scale, mission- critical computing environments. Each model can be configured with up to twenty drives, providing a total deskside capacity of 180 GB or up to 720 GB in a rackmount configuration. Redundancy in such critical areas as disk, power, and cooling is standard on the each of the CLARiiON arrays. CLARiiON GuardWare multi-server failover software is a comprehensive high-availability application that runs as a CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. process and provides failover capabilities without kernel dependencies while fault-resilient processes provide fault-tolerant reliability. Combining failover software and innovative disk array technology, GuardWare offers a high- availability solution to Sun 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) server users for their mission-critical applications. Applications Transparent Failover (ATF) software for server(s), connected to one or more CLARiiON disk arrays, builds on the CLARiiON disk array's dual active storage processor (SP) capability by facilitating 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 stored on the disk array. Founded in 1979, Mitsui Computer Limited (MCL MCL - Macintosh Common LISP ) is jointly owned by Mitsui Australia, Australia's leading export company, and Mitsui Japan. Mitsuiis one of the leading distributors of IT products in Australia, MCL currently distributes hardware and software products from Sun Microsystems, SunSoft, Agfa, Asante, Calcomp, Cornerstone, Epson, FWB (Fixed Wireless Broadband) See fixed wireless. , Fujitsu, Dataproducts, Maermedia, Metatools, Power Computing, Pinnacle Micro Quark, Radius, Raydream, Ricoh, Seikosha, Sharp, Tut System, Video Labs, Xerox, Yamaha, and now -- CLARiiON. Mitsui supports SUN OS, Solaris 1.x, MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. , and Windows NT on 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 and PC. Further information about Mitsui Computer Limited can be found on its World Wide Web site at http: //www.mitsui.com.au. 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. Powerful, competitively priced, and compact, the CLARiiON family offers a wide range of storage systems, ranging from the deskside Series 100 to the rackmounted Series 2000, with capacities 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, Massachusetts, 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 Corporation. All brand and product names appearing in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: CLARiiON, Southboro Kathy Ficaro or Nicole Gorman, 508/480-7196 or 7203 or Mitsui (Australia) Derek Withey, (61-2) 9935-2400 or Data General Corp. Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 or Brodeur & Partners Jeff Aubin, 617/622-2841 |
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