Comdisco Leads Industry In Deploying Latest NT Technology in Recovery Facilities.ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1999-- Multi-million dollar investment in nationwide deployment of Compaq ProLiant 7000s with Pentium II Xeon (processor) Pentium II Xeon - The successor to Intel Corporation's Pentium II processor. The Xeon has the same P6 core as existing Pentium Pro/Pentium II units, but it supports a 100 MHz system bus and offers as much as 2 MB of level 2 cache. http://intel. processors Comdisco Inc., (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDO (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based e-mail, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Enhanced MAPI library into a COM object that provides the ) has announced a major investment in its continuing commitment to support business continuity for consolidated data-center class and enterprise level NT-based server environments. The company is making a multi-million dollar investment to install over 100 Compaq ProLiant 7000 SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. servers with Pentium II Xeon processors in its East Coast, Midwest and West Coast facilities. Comdisco has supported the recovery of application server environments since 1991, but this announcement marks the industry's first large scale, concentrated deployment of Xeon processing capabilities in disaster recovery facilities. Phase one of the rollout will be complete in the first quarter of 1999, with the installation of 40 ProLiant 7000 four-ways in one of Comdisco's New York metro For the region, see . Metro New York is a free daily newspaper in New York City started in 2004. Its main competition is AM New York, with which it practices many of the same distribution and marketing strategies. facilities, and 10 each in the company's Chicago and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. metro facilities. Phase two, to be completed by December 31, 1999, will add 60 more of the servers to the 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 site, with other sites growing in response to market demands. As companies accelerate their deployment and centralization of Intel-based servers, the cost and likelihood of a disruption increase. Microsoft NT is one of the leading operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. for database, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , messaging, and Web platforms. Additionally, some organizations are running these mission-critical applications and e-commerce sites on "farms" or large groupings of Intel-based NT servers, furthering the need for business continuity strategies. Cost and management issues driving data center consolidation is another factor behind the surge in NT computing and organizations' heavy concentration of servers in this class. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Neil MacDonald Neil Macdonald (born 1957) is an award winning Canadian journalist who currently works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Macdonald worked as a print journalist for many years. He joined the CBC in 1988 and covered Parliament for approximately a decade. , senior research analyst, GartnerGroup, by the end of 1999, NT servers will be present in 95 percent of large enterprise networks. "Business continuity issues grow in parallel to an organization's strategic deployment of clusters of these high-performance servers," said John Jackson, general manager, Comdisco Continuity Services. "The market had an unanswered need for large-scale SMP (symmetric multi-processing) server recovery services and looked to Comdisco to take the lead in addressing this crucial requirement." "Compaq's reliable, fault-tolerant ProLiant 7000 servers were specifically designed to support intensely critical business environments such as Comdisco's," said Ray Villareal, Vice President of North America Enterprise Computing, Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. . "This announcement demonstrates Comdisco's commitment to the NT market by providing the technology infrastructure and services to meet customers' real-world needs." "Protection and recovery of large-scale server farms is one of the greatest continuity challenges IT professionals face today," said Mark Scully, director, Workarea and NT Services, Comdisco. "The success of NT-based servers has led to their widespread deployment in business-critical applications. It is not uncommon to see organizations with several hundred Intel-based servers co-located in a single facility, making it prudent for these customers to include recovery services as part of their overall IT plan. "While Comdisco's NT initiative delivers a very significant continuity capability, providing the physical hardware to recover the environment is only a portion of the NT services we provide," said Scully. "Customers seek Comdisco's counsel on issues such as backup methodology, server sizing, domain structure, application deployment and architectures that enhance recoverability and reduce recovery time and complexity." About Comdisco Comdisco Inc. is a technology services company and a leader in providing infrastructure management and optimization services, which are the underlying technological components and services necessary to deliver information and applications anytime, anywhere, without delay or disruption. Comdisco provides the key elements of infrastructure management, including desktop management services, managed network services, business continuity services, leasing and remarketing services, and the software tools to support these areas. Comdisco's revenue for the twelve months ended December 31, 1998, was $3.4 billion. For more information, call 800-272-9792 or visit Comdisco's Web site at www.comdisco.com. Comdisco and its logos are registered trademarks of Comdisco, Inc. Other names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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