CLARiiON introduces Series 3000 disk arrays for enterprise wide, mission-critical computing environments.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 1996-- Series 3000 disk arrays significantly lower cost/MB, support multi-terabytes of capacity, and offer a future upgrade path to fibre channel CLARiiON, the world's leading provider of open RAID-based disk array storage solutions and a business unit of Data General Corp., today announced from Comdex '96 that it has extended its family of industry leading disk arrays, with the CLARiiON Series 3000. The high-end Series 3000 significantly lowers cost per megabyte (MB), providing a large-scale storage solution for open environments, and is the first CLARiiON disk array to offer a future upgrade path to fibre channel host interface support. The Series 3000 substantially lowers the cost per MB for CLARiiON arrays and increases the capacity per square foot by providing up to 30 3.5-inch drives per enclosure and up to 90 drives in a rackmount cabinet. Previously, the maximum number of drives supported in a rackmount cabinet were 80. The Series 3000 can now deliver capacity for three-terabytes of storage in a footprint of under twenty square feet. This growth in capacity makes it particularly well-suited for mission-critical, multi-terabyte applications such as data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , where high-availability and data integrity are essential. The CLARiiON Series 3000 also delivers attributes such as: a completely redundant subsystem architecture to protect against component failures, on-line maintenance for easy and fast "hot-plugging" of system components, and an advanced system design which includes mirrored write cache to increase performance while maintaining data integrity. CLARiiON has also designed the Series 3000 to support emerging technologies. Current controllers will be upgradable to provide fibre channel host connections. As fibre channel technology becomes the basic building block for solving high-end computing problems, the Series 3000 array will provide modular, unlimited expansion. "CLARiiON is committed to delivering to its customers industry leading storage technology with an eye towards the future," said 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 CLARiiON. "Customers who purchase the Series 3000 today will be able to take full advantage of current CLARiiON performance, cost-effectiveness and scalability. And, the array will support migration to fibre channel host interface technology, without having to purchase an entirely new storage system." "IDC believes that there are only a select number of vendors demonstrating the ability to develop an Enterprise Disk Array which offers high-availability design, performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. microcode A set of elementary instructions in a complex instruction set computer (CISC). The microcode resides in a separate high-speed memory and functions as a translation layer between the machine instructions and the circuit level of the computer. , industry leading components, compatibility with multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and scaleable to multi-terabyte configurations," said Tom Lahive, of International Data Corp. (IDC). "The Series 3000 has all of these characteristics, affirming CLARiiON's commitment to being a leader in the disk subsystems marketplace." Pricing and Availability The Series 3000 arrays have already begun shipment with a general availability date The date after notification of mobilization by which forces will be marshalled at their home station or mobilization station and available for deployment. See also home station; mobilization; mobilization station. scheduled for the second week in December. List prices for the Series 3000 start at $21,600 with configured systems as low as $0.78 per MB. About CLARiiON CLARiiON advanced storage solutions, with over 500 combined manpower years of array experience, over 100 million hours of customer satisfaction, and over 33,000 systems running worldwide, 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 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 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. , South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S 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 Corp. (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 $1.3 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 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 Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 or 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. Jeff Aubin, 617/587-2841 |
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