CLARiiON first to ship over one petabyte of RAID-protected storage.SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1997-- CLARiiON Maintains Leadership Position in Worldwide Open Storage Market -- Shipping 40,000th Disk Array CLARiiON, the world's leading provider of open RAID-based storage solutions and a business unit of Data General Corporation, today announced that it is the first open RAID storage supplier to surpass the one petabyte One quadrillion bytes (one trillion kilobytes). Also PB, Pbyte and P-byte. See peta, binary values and space/time. (unit) petabyte - 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes = 1024 terabytes or roughly 10^15 bytes. 1024 petabytes is one exabyte. (i.e., 1,000 terabytes) of RAID-protected usable storage capacity shipment mark. A petabyte of stored information is the equivalent of 400 billion typed pages or enough paper to circle the earth 50 times. The key industry milestone coincided with the recent shipment of the 40,000th CLARiiON disk array. The company added that, at its current shipment rate, the 50,000th CLARiiON disk array is expected to ship this Summer. "As CLARiiON does not sell directly to end-users, CLARiiON market share is not truly represented by revenue results alone," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager for CLARiiON. "A better indication of our true market share is provided by the shipment of usable capacity - not just raw capacity, as so much storage today is configured as mirrored." "These shipment numbers confirm the worldwide industry acceptance and leadership position of CLARiiON high performance, 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. RAID storage technology," said Hemmerich, who noted that two-thirds of its petabyte of storage has been shipped since the beginning of 1996. "IDC estimates that CLARiiON has shipped over $710 million in external mid-range storage over the last 3 years," said Tom Lahive, industry analyst at International Data Corp. (IDC). "This announcement is indicative of the CLARiiON unit's industry leading success in the 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 storage market." CLARiiON is the world's leader in open RAID-based disk array storage technology. CLARiiON disk arrays offer the leading price/performance -- ranging from the entry-level Model 150, designed to support PC LAN (1) A network of IBM or IBM-compatible PCs. (2) A network of any variety of computers. environments; to the rackmount Series 3000 system, intended for enterprise-level computing environments into the multi-terabyte range; to TeleStor, designed for the telecommunications industry. CLARiiON disk arrays are distributed by OEMs, private label suppliers, value-added resellers (VARs), and system integrators for both 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). and 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 marketplaces. For further information regarding CLARiiON and its family of industry leading disk arrays, please call 1-800-67-ARRAY, email info@clariion.com, 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 $1.3 billion for fiscal 1996. 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: Nicole Gorman or Kathy Ficaro Jeff Aubin CLARiiON Brodeur Porter Novelli Porter Novelli International is a leading, global PR and lobbying firm. It is part of the Omnicom Group of advertising and marketing companies, the world's largest advertising conglomerate. The following article on Porter Novelli was obtained from "Sourcewatch. 508/480-7203 or 7196 617/587-2841 Jim Dunlap Data General Corp. 508/898-6546 |
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