CMS Peripherals Partners With Merisel to Distribute Mass Storage Solutions.COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1998-- Agreement Brings CMS' High-Performance Notebook, Desktop and CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). Storage Products to Broad Market of Resellers and Retailers CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. Peripherals Wednesday announced a distribution agreement with El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif.-based Merisel Inc., a leader in the distribution of computer hardware and software products. Merisel will distribute CMS' notebook hard drive upgrade products, desktop hard drive upgrades and CD-ROM towers through its strong channel of value-added resellers (VARs), system integrators, and retailers throughout 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. . The agreement further expands CMS' growing roster of channel partners and provides Merisel with one of the industry's most comprehensive lines of notebook hard drive upgrades as well as CMS' full line of high-performance CD-ROM towers. The CMS line of storage products represents a significant addition to Merisel's extensive offerings of technology solutions. "Our agreement with Merisel offers us a great opportunity to reach the industry's top tier VARs and retailers with our storage solutions," said Norman Williams, vice president of marketing for CMS Peripherals. "This agreement will potentially open new markets for CMS and add additional breadth to our efforts in markets that we already serve." "We are pleased to distribute CMS Peripherals' line of storage products," said Jodi Honore, vice president of peripherals at Merisel. "We are particularly excited about the explosive growth of hard drive upgrades in the notebook market as large and small corporations seek to extend the life of their mobile computing investment. CMS' products provide our customers the technology solutions that they need to meet the demands of this growing market." CMS' notebook hard drive upgrades enable users to extend their notebook's life without having to replace it. Ranging from 2.1GB to the new 8.1GB, the internal hard disk drives are high-capacity upgrades for notebook computers from leading manufacturers including Compaq, 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) , Toshiba, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. . EasyBundle, designed for non-technical end users to be safe and easy to install, includes a notebook hard drive in a custom-designed enclosure with a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. data transfer card and cable, Windows-style drive imaging software, electrostatic discharge (ESD (1) (Electronic Software Distribution) Distributing new software and upgrades via the network rather than individual installations on each machine. See ESL. ) preventive hardware, and anti-shock/vibration packaging. A user simply connects the included PCMCIA cable to the notebook and runs CMS' drive imaging software. The software automatically partitions and formats the new drive, then transfers all files, applications and the operating system to the new drive. Upon completion of the transfer process, the user replaces the original hard drive with the new CMS drive. About Merisel Inc. Merisel (Nasdaq:MSEL MSEL Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory MSEL Milton S. Eisenhower Library (Johns Hopkins University) MSEL Master Scenario Events List MSEL Master of Studies in Environmental Law ) is a leader in the distribution of computer hardware and software products. Based in El Segundo, Merisel is a Fortune 500 company with reported 1997 sales of $4.05 billion. Merisel distributes a full line of 25,000 products and services from the industry's leading manufacturers to more than 45,000 resellers throughout North America. In addition, the company provides a full range of customized, value-added services. Merisel also offers dedicated support to high-end resellers through the Merisel Open Computing Alliance (MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) ), a specialty division for Sun Microsystems and third-party products. Merisel's corporate Web site is located at www.merisel.com. About CMS Peripherals CMS Peripherals Inc. offers a broad line of cost-effective and reliable mass storage solutions for portable computers, workstations and servers. With more than 3 million CMS storage solutions installed in 61 countries, CMS is dedicated to providing users with exactly the right mass storage device for their application. CMS' complete line of mass storage products includes hard disk drives and data transfer products for notebooks, high capacity hard disk drives and CD towers. |
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