Ciprico Announces New RAID Addition to FibreSTORE Family of Storage Systems.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999-- End-to-end Fibre Channel RAID storage solution designed for high performance, scaleability and fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. Ciprico Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CPCI See CompactPCI. ) today announced that it is adding a new RAID member to its FibreSTORE family of storage systems, demonstrating its continued leadership in the high-performance storage market. The new FibreSTORE RAID System utilizes the award winning FibreSTORE JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks Disk Array with integrated single or dual RAID controllers to deliver a scaleable, fault-tolerant storage solution for visual computing The use of computers for 3D modeling and animation. See visualization. and digital media industries. "Our new FibreSTORE RAID System will provide a disk array solution for a much wider range of applications than we have targeted in the past," said Ciprico President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Robert H. Kill. "FibreSTORE leverages our expertise in high-bandwidth applications to target applications in what we call the "streaming" market, where consistent, high bandwidth performance needs to be delivered to multiple users simultaneously. This includes applications such as video servers and multi task processing." FibreSTORE RAID System's high-bandwidth parallel disk access technology is coupled with an on-board cache to deliver continuous, sustainable data rates at close to 200 MB per second with the dual controller option. Like its entry-level JBOD partner, the FibreSTORE RAID System supports all of the Fibre Channel fabric A Fibre Channel fabric (or Fibre Channel switched fabric, FC-SW) is a switched fabric of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. topologies required by the emerging SAN technologies. Each FibreSTORE RAID System can support over 100 Fibre Channel drives, creating multiple terabytes of storage capacity. The system's RAID data redundancy Writing data to two or more locations for backup and data recovery. For example, data can be stored on two or more disks or disk and tape or disk and the Internet. See disk redundancy and data recovery. , as well as redundant disks, controllers, power and cooling modules, insure uninterrupted 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. at full performance levels and service without disruption. The FibreSTORE RAID System uses the same enclosure and interface as the FibreSTORE JBOD Disk Array, which recently won two editor awards for its ease of use and performance. Moreover, Ciprico provides an upgrade path between the two products. Both come with Storage Manager software utilities to allow the configuration and management of Ciprico storage products directly from the host desktop. In addition, both products feature local point-of-use displays, indicators and keypads, providing a baseline configuration and monitoring interface that is always present on the system itself. Ciprico has made it easy for users to choose a FibreSTORE RAID System by offering pre-tested and benchmarked "Ready to Go!" configurations with a range of fault tolerance features and storage capacities from 144 GB to 2 TB. The FibreSTORE RAID System can run on any host with a Fibre Channel interface, and platform-specific packages for Silicon Graphics (SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. ), Sun Microsystems and Windows NT environments will be available. The FibreSTORE RAID System will be unveiled at Ciprico's Store the Vision booth (No. S2444) at NAB '99 in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 19-22. The FibreSTORE JBOD Disk Array has been shipping since December. Ciprico designs, manufactures and markets high-performance storage solutions and professional services for visual computing and digital media industry leaders throughout the world. Ciprico storage solutions are designed for computing applications requiring high-speed image capture, full image resolution playback, sustained performance and data protection. Ciprico is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. More information about Ciprico is available on the world wide web at www.ciprico.com. |
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