CLARiiON reaches milestone; 10,000th RAID subsystem shipped.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 1995--The CLARiiON Business Unit of Data General Corporation today announced a milestone for its advanced enterprise storage solutions business with the shipment of the 10,000th RAID disk array subsystem. The 10,000th system, a CLARiiON Series 2000 array, was delivered to Silicon Graphics Inc. in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . CLARiiON disk arrays are re-sold by Silicon Graphics as high availability/high capacity storage subsystems The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. for the CHALLENGE(TM) line of network resource servers. The CLARiiON Business Unit has experienced significant growth with the development of its sales channels, including OEMs, VARs, private labelers, system integrators and distributors worldwide. CLARiiON arrays have earned several industry awards, and were most recently named the RAID Product of the Year in the Well Connected Awards sponsored by Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. magazine. "CLARiiON RAID subsystems are a key component of our 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. strategy and our push into the commercial server market," said Ross Bott bott n. Variant of bot1. , vice president and general manager of Silicon Graphics' Network Systems Division. "We look forward to working with CLARiiON to continue delivering storage subsystems that lead the market in availability, performance and scalability." "RAID storage is one of the fastest growing segments of the information technology market," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager of the CLARiiON Business Unit. "We are committed to maintaining our leadership position in this exciting and dynamic open systems storage market. The patented industry-leading technology in CLARiiON storage subsystems is achieving worldwide acceptance, helping us to meet our goal. Going forward, we will continue to introduce new storage products to address evolving customer needs and solidify our market position." Among the new products recently introduced by CLARiiON was ArrayGUIde, a graphical array management tool that can be used with Silicon Graphics' CHALLENGE servers, Data General AViiON AViiON was a series of computers from Data General that were the company's main product from the late 1980s until the company's server products were discontinued in 2001. Earlier AViiON models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all-Intel solution when systems, 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. systems, IBM's RS/6000, Digital Equipment Corp's Alpha and SUN Microsystems' 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 servers. CLARiiON is a Business Unit of Data General Corp., an open systems company that specializes in providing servers, storage products and services to information systems users worldwide. Data General is headquartered in Westboro, and reported revenues of $1.12 billion in fiscal 1994. Note to Editors: A photograph or color slide of CLARiiON's Larry Hemmerich presenting the 10,000th CLARiiON storage array to Silicon Graphics' Ross Bott is available upon request. CLARiiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corp. Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark and CHALLENGE is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. CONTACTS: Data General Corp., Westboro Jim Dunlap or Kathy Ficaro, 508/898-6546 or 5698 or Edelman Worldwide, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Kendra Collins or George Goldman, 212/704-8286 or 4440 |
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