Ciprico First to Ship High Bandwidth Fibre Channel Solutions with 36 GB Drives.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1999--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 they are now shipping 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) 36 GB drives with the 7000 Series Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays, increasing total storage capacity to 288 GB per unit. Ciprico is the first high bandwidth disk array storage vendor to be shipping product with this new technology, once again proving its leadership in the industry. "Ciprico's strategic partnership and long standing relationship with IBM has allowed us to be first to market with 36 GB drives," explained Ciprico Senior Product Manager Gerry Johnsen. "We have had great success with the18 GB drives from IBM and expect that this new technology will allow our customers an even greater advantage by offering more storage capacity within the same footprint, giving them a lower cost per MB." The 7000 Series, Ciprico's fourth generation disk array, was the industry's first RAID to offer a full speed Fibre Channel interface. It now offers up to 288 GB capacity and sustained data transfer rates of up to 100 MB/second. The 7000 Series comes with a set of redundancy features ideal for use in any real-time environment. To protect against drive problems, the array will continue to operate after any single drive failure - with no loss in performance. Replacement of any redundant component, such as a disk drive, power supply or fan, can be performed while the array remains running. The 7000's Fibre Channel interface has tremendous flexibility and supports both optical and copper host connections. The 7000 is SAN ready by supporting Fibre Channel's Arbitrated Loop A ring topology used in Fibre Channel. Up to 127 devices may be attached in the loop, but only two can communicate at the same time, reflecting the channel nature of Fibre Channel technology. and switched fabric topologies. Ciprico designs, manufactures and markets high-performance storage solutions and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for visual computing The use of computers for 3D modeling and animation. See visualization. and digital media industry leaders throughout the world. Ciprico storage solutions are designed for computing computing - computer 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. More information on IBM disk drives can be found at www.storage.ibm.com. For further information on the 7000 Series RAID Disk Arrays please contact: Gerry Johnsen Susan Leenerman Senior Product Manager Marketing Director (612) 551-4055 (612) 551-4000 gerry@ciprico.com sleenerman@ciprico.com |
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