CLARiiON ships its first rackmount model designed for the low-end; Model 155 is ideal for low end UNIX and PC servers.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1995--The CLARiiON Business Unit of Data General Corp. announced today the availability of the CLARiiON Model 155 rackmount Disk Array. The C155 Rackmount is targeted at low-end 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 PC server applications requiring high performance, high data integrity storage subsystems with flexibility. The C155 is capable of meeting the needs of the most demanding applications, providing up to 28 GB of disk and 32 MB of cache memory and up to eight arrays per rackmount enclosure. "CLARiiON continues to be the mass storage solution of choice for the open systems market," 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 the CLARiiON Business Unit. "We now offer a complete range of mass storage solutions for the low-end with the C150 for workgroups and now the C155 for enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. environments." The C155 includes many of the features inherent in the CLARiiON line of products including redundant subsystems to eliminate single points of failure, on-line maintenance allowing hot repair of disk drives, power supplies and fans as well as guaranteed data integrity. The low-end unit also supports dual porting between servers allowing for flexible recovery options from server failure. A Windows or Motif based graphical management tool simplifies installation and operation, allowing single point control in enterprise installations. Virtually all open systems platforms are supported on the C155, including Sun 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 systems, 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) RS/6000, and PCs running NetWare, NT, OS/2, 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. , and DEC Alpha running Digital UNIX. The C155 also incorporates the same patented RAID 5 technology found in the CLARiiON line, delivering the best data integrity available while supporting multi-RAID configurations (0.1,3,5 and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output ) concurrently. Global disk spares are available to automatically and immediately rebuild a failed disk. The rackmount configuration is distributed by systems vendors, OEMs, private label suppliers, value-added resellers and systems integrators worldwide, all part of an ever-expanding network of channel partners serving North America, Europe and the Far East. List starting price is $10,995, and includes one (1) storage processor with 8MB, three (3) 2GB disk drives bound as a RAID 5 unit, redundant power supplies and cooling, and choice of server interface kit with 10 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. asynch cables. The CLARiiON Business Unit is part of Data General Corp. CLARiiON leading disk array technology has been protecting customer data and information for more than four years. Data General, based in Westboro, specializes in servers, storage systems, and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.2 billion for fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com. CONTACTS: Data General Corp., Westboro Jim Dunlap or Kathy Ficaro, 508/898-5698 or 6546 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 George W. Goldman, 212/704-4440 |
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