CLARiiON introduces expansive Multidimensional Storage Architecture -- MSA.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 1997-- MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. removes limits to capacity, data throughput, transaction performance, and connectivity, and is the basis for the world's most scalable online storage solution CLARiiON, the world's leading supplier of open RAID-based disk arrays and a Data General company, today introduced Multidimensional Storage Architecture (MSA), a strategic new framework for deploying open systems storage throughout an enterprise 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. business needs and application requirements. MSA is based on the industry's most advanced implementation of fibre channel technology, and delivers the benefits of virtually unlimited scalability, centralized management, and parallel deployment. "Applications being implemented by enterprises today are placing diverging requirements on storage systems," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager of CLARiiON. "The days when a single type of storage device could provide cost effective performance for all applications are gone forever. That's where MSA can help - it supports customized storage pools that are tailored to individual application needs, and allows those pools to scale in multiple dimensions as the applications evolve." According to Michael Casey Michael Casey (born 1947 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an Armenian-American poet. His first collection, Obscenities, was chosen by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. , Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , "Storage is becoming more and more application-dependent - you have to think about matching your storage solution to your application need." MSA provides virtually unlimited flexibility to configure centrally-managed storage pools via storage networks that scale independently in five dimensions - capacity, transaction performance, data throughput, connectivity, and availability of business information. MSA storage networks are built with modular components from the new all-fibre-channel CLARiiON FC5000 Series disk array family (also announced today). MSA modular building Modular buildings are sectional prefabricated buildings that are manufactured in a plant, and delivered to the customer in one or more complete modular sections. Modular buildings are considerably different from mobile homes. blocks include array modules, RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. modules, hubs and switches. James Porter James Porter can refer to:
MSA modularity allows companies to purchase only what they need up front, taking advantage of potential declines in storage costs over time. By adding array modules for capacity and controller modules for transaction performance or data throughput, MSA networks can be scaled practically without limit. Hubs are used to scale transaction performance and switches are used to scale data throughput. Hubs and switches isolate components in MSA networks so they can be serviced without interrupting other servers or disk arrays. "MSA removes storage boundaries that have historically created problems for high-growth enterprise applications," added Hemmerich. "It also offers new connectivity options to support multi-node clusters and disaster-tolerant solutions - all this adds up to unprecedented flexibility." MSA provides the flexibility to consolidate storage pools in a central location, or distribute them with application servers near users to minimize enterprise network costs. Both approaches provide the benefits of scalability, centralized management, and storage-centric investment protection. According to Fara Yale, Dataquest, "CLARiiON Multidimensional Storage Architecture offers the flexibility and advanced technology required for today's enterprise storage requirements." Managing MSA storage pools is simplified with Navisphere enterprise storage pool management software, the centralized management component of MSA. Navisphere software provides storage administrators with storage pool configuration, management, performance analysis, and event notification Event notification is a term used in conjunction with communications software for linking applications that generate small messages (the "events") to applications that monitor the associated conditions and may take actions triggered by events. services at a single workstation located anywhere in the enterprise. Navisphere software is designed for administrator ease of use, automatic setup and installation, and logical storage pool support. With Navisphere, enterprises have centralized control 1. In air defense, the control mode whereby a higher echelon makes direct target assignments to fire units. 2. In joint air operations, placing within one commander the responsibility and authority for planning, directing, and coordinating a military operation or group/category of and maximum flexibility. "The premise behind MSA is simple - today's open systems storage environment requires flexibility," said Hemmerich. "With MSA, enterprises have a flexible, cost-effective way to solve complex storage challenges, and they no longer have to predict the future to be successful with storage. MSA ushers in a new era of advanced storage solutions. No vendor other than CLARiiON offers the full range of benefits made possible with MSA." With more than 50,000 disk arrays shipped, CLARiiON supplies advanced storage solutions to major computer system manufacturers, value-added storage resellers, and system integrators around the world. CLARiiON 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. solutions are based on Multidimensional Storage Architecture and feature a full range of flexible, scalable products for 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 Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. platforms, including 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. arrays, end-to-end fibre channel arrays, and enterprise storage pool management software. For more information regarding CLARiiON and its enterprise storage solutions, call 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: CLARiiON Brodeur Porter Novelli Nicole Gorman David Resnic 508/480-7203 617/587-2841 ngorman@clariion.com dresnic@brodeur.com or Data General Corp. Jim Dunlap 508/898-6546 jim_dunlap@dg.com |
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