Data General's CLARiiON Division Unveils Entry-level Full Fibre Channel Storage Solution - the CLARiiON FC5300.SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1999-- CLARiiON FC5300 Offers 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 Scalable Full Fibre Channel Storage at Industry's Lowest Price Data General Corporation's CLARiiON(R) Storage Division today unveiled the CLARiiON FC5300, a powerful new entry-level addition to its industry-leading family of full Fibre Channel storage solutions. The CLARiiON FC5300, Data General's third generation of full Fibre Channel storage, has been tailored for sophisticated small-to-medium sized applications where performance and uptime are critical. With its best-in-class enterprise functionality, including high performance, centralized management, mirrored cache and redundant storage processors, FC5300 is ideal for distributed storage Storing data in multiple computers or in computers that are geographically dispersed. This was an early term for storage that evolved into SANs and storage virtualization. See SAN and storage virtualization. environments, including storage area networks (SANs). Based on proven CLARiiON FC5000 Series modular architecture, the CLARiiON FC5300 delivers full Fibre Channel at both the host and disk levels at the industry's lowest price for a full Fibre Channel solution. Depending upon customer needs, the FC5300 can grow from three Fibre Channel disk drives to 30 drives, providing users with up to one terabyte of high availability storage. The FC5300 also can be upgraded, without having to be taken down, to larger multi-terabyte CLARiiON FC5500 or FC5700 solutions as the user's storage needs grow. "Data General CLARiiON continues to expand the breadth of products based on Fibre Channel technology," said John McArthur John McArthur (November 17, 1826 – May 15, 1906) was a Union general during the American Civil War. McArthur was born in Erskine, Scotland. He learned to be a blacksmith and emigrated to the United States at age 23 and settled in Chicago. , IDC's Program Director for Storage Research. "The CLARiiON FC5300 is an appropriate solution for companies running mission-critical applications in environments such as OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing , data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , e-mail, Web servers and print servers." "With this new CLARiiON solution we are also introducing the `virtual centralization' of storage, allowing for distributed high availability storage spread across several geographical locations to be centrally managed with our powerful Navisphere software," said Joanne Masingill, vice president of CLARiiON marketing at Data General. "Entry-level enterprise storage customers can be certain that they are receiving the full benefits of Fibre Channel storage with the FC5300 - high performance, high availability, scalability and investment protection - and the tools to comfortably grow and manage a valuable distributed storage infrastructure." Scott Fraser Scott Fraser relates to one of the following:
Chris Yetman, director, Customer Services Delivery for GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Internetworking, noted, "As a leading ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. , GTE Internetworking provides services ranging from high-speed Internet See broadband. access, security and sophisticated Web and application hosting. Our customers rely on our storage infrastructure to be always available and fast. We're using CLARiiON FC5300 storage solutions that are designed for this demanding environment and provide us with the ability to build a cost-effective, full Fibre Channel storage infrastructure that can grow with us." Pricing and Availability The CLARiiON FC5300 full Fibre Channel disk array, which is immediately available, starts at a list price of approximately $20,000. A high-end system with 30 drives, providing more than a terabyte of storage, sells for less than $200,000. For more information please call 1-800-67-ARRAY or visit www.clariion.com. About Data General CLARiiON With its CLARiiON family, Data General Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ) is the first major vendor to ship end-to-end Fibre Channel disk arrays, the foundation for deployment of Storage Area Networks (SANs). Having shipped more than 100,000 CLARiiON disk arrays and over 7 petabytes (7,000 terabytes) of usable RAID-protected storage, Data General is recognized as the world's leading supplier to OEMs. High-availability solutions, provided through resellers and direct to end users, feature flexible, scalable products for Windows NT and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. They include full Fibre Channel and 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. disk arrays and Navisphere(R) storage management software. Data General, which is based in Westborough, Massachusetts, is a major supplier of storage and enterprise computing solutions for customers worldwide. In addition to CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, the company's products include high-end NT and UNIX-based AViiON(R) servers, and related software and services. The company reported fiscal 1998 revenues of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com. More information on CLARiiON technology and products can be accessed on the Internet at www.clariion.com. CLARiiON, AViiON and Navisphere are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other brand and product names referenced in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CLARiiON FC5300 Worldwide Customer Support Discovery Communications Inc. - The Discovery Channel (Maryland) "Our discovery.com Web site requires the highest level of performance and data availability for supporting hourly Web site updates. As such, we conducted an extensive evaluation of RAID storage solutions and concluded that the CLARiiON FC5300 surpassed all our requirements, in addition to providing the most cost effective distributed storage solution." Scott Fraser, Director of Technical Operations GTE Internetworking (Massachusetts) "As a leading ISP, GTE Internetworking provides services ranging from high-speed Internet access, security and sophisticated Web and application hosting. Our customers rely on our storage infrastructure to be always available and fast. We're using CLARiiON FC5300 storage solutions that are designed for this demanding environment and provide us with the ability to build a cost-effective, full Fibre Channel storage infrastructure that can grow with us." Chris Yetman, Director, Customer Services Delivery for GTE Internetworking HotJobs.Com (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 ) "HotJobs.com is a fast growing, on-line, classified add agency. We operate 7 by 24 hours a day. We want to support the maximum number of users who access our web site. We chose the CLARiiON FC5300 Storage Array because of scalability, availability, reliability, and performance. It's a great value to our business." George Nassef, Chief Information Officer Tektronix (Grass Valley Group) (Oregon) "We have an installed base of Video servers world wide that exceeds over 20,000 channels. These servers are installed at NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. , FOX, BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. , SKY Broadcasting as well as many local TV stations across the world. In 95% of those applications we run in a 7x24 operation. We wanted a company and product line that had experience with Fibre Channel. The fact that the FC5300 was an evolution from an existing product line was a tremendous factor for us. The FC5300 is the price performance leader in the industry...this will translate into much more cost effective systems for our customers." Charli The FC5300 provides a lower entry price to these technologies. One of the reasons we buy from CLARiiON is the reliability of their storage products. Compared with the Sinvestments." Thomas Plenge, head of Application and Benchmark Lab Sainsbury (London, United Kingdom) "Margins in the retail sector are extremely comp Andrew Baker, Product Support Manager a Rezendes 617-587-2872 617-587-2839 sgreene@brodeur.com grezendes@brodeur.com |
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