CLARiiON premieres new enterprise disk arrays at UniForum '96; silicon graphics to display one terabyte file system on CLARiiON disk arrays.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1996--The CLARiiON Business Unit of Data General Corp. will demonstrate new product enhancements to its industry leading CLARiiON (C2000 series) 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 subsystems for the first time at UniForum '96, held in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden February 12-16, 1996. The new models, 2800, 2810 and 2900, deliver greater performance and enable future capacity and caching expansion for enterprise storage environments. CLARiiON will also offer a glimpse of the future of CLARiiON mass storage systems at the show, displaying the Series 200, which features Fibre Channel technology - the next generation serial interface. Throughput, or I/Os per second, of the new Series 2000 arrays is increased from 2 to 2.5 times the current generation product, as well as reducing response time by more than half. The new array's performance is facilitated by the Motorola(TM) Power PC microprocessor (603e). All of the CLARiiON unique data integrity and high availability features have been maintained in the new models. "With the growth of applications such as data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , the demand for secure, affordable, and high performance storage for mission-critical data is exploding," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager, CLARiiON Business Unit. "The demonstration of our new disk array subsystems answer this demand with a more cost-effective solution than any other storage alternatives, while providing the data integrity and 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. required by today's client server commercial applications." The new models support up to twenty - 3.5 inch 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. drives per chassis and are targeted at medium-to-large-scale, open heterogeneous-server, computing environments. Current total capacity per chassis (deskside and rackmount) is 84GB utilizing 4.2GB drives and will begin shipping in early March. List pricing for the new models will be as low as $1.53 per megabyte for heavily configured models. The new products deliver on the CLARiiON strategic initiative to provide enterprise storage solutions with connections to the top open platforms, terabyte capacity, high availability software extensions, and proven data integrity and availability features. The CLARiiON 2000 disk array family is supported on the top UNIX System Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services vendor platforms, Hewlett Packard, Silicon Graphics, Sequent, Sun, 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) , Digital, Data General, Cray, Bull, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Motorola, Convex, and Intel PC Servers running 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. , NetWare, OS/2, and SCO UNIX An enhanced version of Unix System V Release 3.2 for Intel processors from SCO. In 1989, SCO Unix was introduced as a major upgrade to SCO XENIX with more security, networking and standards conformance. . Also at the booth, CLARiiON will provide a preview of its product efforts with Fibre Channel, connected to both Sun and Alpha servers. The Series 200 will display advanced technology for connection to Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop A ring topology used in Fibre Channel. Up to 127 devices may be attached in the loop, but only two can communicate at the same time, reflecting the channel nature of Fibre Channel technology. (FC-AL (Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop) See Fibre Channel. FC-AL - Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop. ) host bus adapters. This high-availability disk product is completely redundant and hot repairable, providing 200 MB per second throughput and is scalable to 120 disks. Designed for mission-critical applications, the Series 200 products will offer fibre channel technology in both rackmount and office versions. CLARiiON and Silicon Graphics CLARiiON will be featured at the Silicon Graphics Inc. booth No. 1449 at UniForum, demonstrating terabyte-class storage capability in conjunction with Silicon Graphics' IRIS FailSafe(TM) high availability product. This demonstration, highlighting the strong 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 relationship between the two companies, exemplifies the commitment of CLARiiON to provide enterprise storage solutions. "Silicon Graphics' OEM relationship with CLARiiON is extremely important - considering the IRIS FailSafe(TM) product depends on the fault tolerant features inherent in all CLARiiON models," said Raj Das, product manager of Silicon Graphics' Network Systems Division. "We look forward to working with the CLARiiON Business Unit in the future to continue to develop multi-terabyte storage solutions." The CLARiiON Business Unit is a part of Data General Corp. CLARiiON leading disk array technology has been protecting customer data and information for more than four years. CLARiiON storage products are available from an ever-expanding network of channel partners serving North America, Europe and the Far East. Data General is an open systems company that specializes in providing servers, storage systems, and services to information technology users worldwide. The company, headquartered in Westboro, Mass., reported revenues of $1.2 billion for fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its product, and its services is available on the internet at http://www.dg.com. 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, 508/480-7196 or Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 or Edelman Worldwide George Goldman/Debbie Young, 212/704-4440, 415/968-4033 |
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