Chaparral Network Storage Announces the G7324 Fibre-to-Ultra160 Fault Tolerant RAID Controller.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers CeBIT 2000 (Hall 6, Stand H20, Booth L3, Display B7) HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000 New 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. Combines the Performance of Ultra160 and Fibre Channel with Fault Tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. features of Active/Active Fail-Over Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., a premier provider of Intelligent storage networking solutions, today announced the Chaparral G7324 External RAID controller, another addition to their G-Series family. With two Fibre Channel (100 Mbytes per second) host channels and four Ultra160 (160 Mbytes per second) device channels, the G7324 offers increased performance and seamless connectivity to Fibre Channel SANs (Storage Area Networks). Featuring active-active failover, the G7324 is designed for today's demanding applications requiring the highest levels of performance and data reliability. Fibre Channel technology has emerged as a high-speed and reliable method of transferring data through a SAN. The Chaparral G7324 offers sequential data transfers at over 180 Mbytes/second sustained and more that 15,000 IOPS IOPS Input/Output Per Second IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second (server performance measurement) IOPS International Organization of Pension Supervisors IOPS Information Operations Planning System IOPS Internet Official Protocol Standards . The high performance controller is ideally suited for high bandwidth data-centric applications such as electronic commerce and digital video. "Customers demand price/performance products that offer advanced capabilities," said Bob Morris, vice president of marketing, Chaparral Network Storage, Inc. "With the combined benefits of Fibre Channel and Ultra160, our customers can take advantage of the high performance, 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. and data protection our RAID controllers offer." The Chaparral G7324 supports a 1 Gigabit switched fabric interface for easy integration of large storage area networks. The Fibre-to-Ultra160 provides: -- A high speed Fibre Channel connection -- 2 full duplex 1 Gbit Fibre Channel ports, dedicated, enhanced device support -- device connections -- Active/Active auto fail-over capability for high availability applications The active-active failover feature offered in the Chaparral G7324 is designed to allow continuous operations should an individual controller fail. This advanced feature allows individual controllers to be taken off-line for firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. upgrades resulting in no downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. for maintenance operations, a key requirement for mission critical applications. The G7324 controllers from Chaparral Network Storage are currently available to 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 customers. Chaparral products will be demonstrated at CeBit in Hannover, Germany February 24 - March 4, 2000 in Hall 6, Stand H20, Booth L3, Display B7. About Chaparral Network Storage, Inc. Chaparral Network Storage, Inc. is a premier provider of intelligent storage networking solutions, offering Intelligent Storage Routers See data mover. and External RAID Controllers to OEMs and distributors. Chaparral develops innovative technology and products that efficiently and reliably move and store data over any network. Intelligent Storage Routers enable seamless connectivity across disk, tape and optical storage systems, delivering exceptional speed, performance and data protection. In RAID storage systems, Chaparral External RAID Controllers provide high 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. and advanced fault-tolerance, supporting continued network expansion and flexible storage configurations. Chaparral products provide the vital connection of 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. and Fibre Channel, enabling companies to protect their investments in legacy storage devices while taking advantage of the benefits of Fibre Channel. For more information, visit Chaparral's web site at www.chaparralnet.com. Founded in 1998, Chaparral is headquartered at 1951 Fordham Street, Longmont, CO 80503 and can be contacted by phone at 303/684-3200. |
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