Data General's CLARiiON Storage Division Selects Emulex Fibre Channel Adapter for Its Storage Area Network Solutions.COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999-- CLARiiON will 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 LightPulse LP8000 for use in Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Unix environments Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), a leader in Fibre Channel technology and products, Monday announced that Data General's CLARiiON Storage Division has selected its high-performance Fibre Channel host adapter Also called a "controller" or "host bus adapter," it is a device that connects one or more peripheral units to a computer. It is typically an expansion card that plugs into the bus. IDE and SCSI are examples of peripheral interfaces that call their controllers host adapters. See host. , the LightPulse(TM) LP8000, for use with its storage solutions. CLARiiON will OEM the LP8000 for its end-to-end Fibre Channel storage area networking (SAN) solutions for both Windows NT and Unix environments. "The LP8000 64-bit PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). host adapter delivers a robust product that has the advanced capabilities we require in building high performance, reliable and scalable full Fibre Channel storage solutions such as SANs," stated Joanne Masingill, vice president of CLARiiON marketing at Data General. "With the LP8000 and CLARiiON innovation in full Fibre Channel storage, we are making available complete storage solutions that address our customers' needs in integrating the best hardware, software and services." "Emulex and Data General CLARiiON have worked closely together to develop world-class fibre channel products, including the shipment of the first fibre channel array in 1997," said Mike Smith, vice president of fibre channel marketing for Emulex. "Data General CLARiiON is a leading innovator in fibre channel technology and open systems storage, and we are pleased that they have chosen to OEM the LP8000 host adapter as part of its SAN solutions." The Emulex LP8000 PCI Host Adapter The LP8000 delivers more than 31,000 I/Os per second from a single adapter in a Xeon-based server running Windows NT. Running full duplex, the LP8000 has been measured at 150MB/s, and is capable of sustaining throughput of 200MB/s with a single Fibre Channel connection. The LP8000 achieves its performance through the use of Emulex's Dragonfly dragonfly, any insect of the order Odonata, which also includes the damselfly. Members of this order are generally large predatory insects and characteristically have chewing mouthparts and four membranous, net-veined wings; they undergo complete metamorphosis. ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. , a 266 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. on-board processor, high-speed buffer memory, and high-performance features such as 64-bit PCI and full-duplex data transfers. Designed to support mission-critical enterprise applications, the LP8000 provides a unique combination of features, including full fabric support using F_Port and FL_Port connections, high data integrity, data buffering to support up to 100km cabling and support for all Fibre Channel topologies and service classes 2 and 3. The LP8000 features a GBIC (GigaBit Interface Converter) A hardware module used to attach network devices to fiber-based transmission systems such as Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet. The GBIC converts the serial electrical signals to serial optical signals and vice versa. or embedded physical interface, providing customers with flexibility to support a full range of cabling options, including copper, multi-mode fiber or single-mode fiber. The LP8000 is complemented by a rich suite of software. The LP8000 maintains compatibility with custom drivers written to Emulex's "Service Level Interface" (SLI (Scalable Link Interface) A multi-GPU interface from NVIDIA for connecting two or four NVIDIA display adapters together for faster graphics rendering on one monitor or two monitors. ) API specification, and is supported by drivers for a wide range of operating systems, including Windows NT, Solaris, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , UnixWare and NetWare. The LP8000 provides support for storage protocol (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. ), network protocol (IP), as well as multi-protocol (SCSI & IP) operation, enabling advanced SAN, clustering and network applications. The LP8000, available now, is part of Emulex's broad family of Fibre Channel products addressing the needs of both mission-critical enterprise applications and direct connect storage links. Emulex is the leading supplier of full duplex, PCI gigabit Fibre Channel adapters with a large installed base of LP8000, LP850, LP7000E and LP6000E customers. Two additional offerings include the LP3000, which is the industry's leading price performance Fibre Channel adapter for direct attach storage applications, and the innovative LH5000 digital re-timing hub which includes a full suite of Web and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. management capabilities. About Data General CLARiiON With its CLARiiON family, Data General Corp. (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 more than 7 - petabytes (7,000 terabytes) of usable RAID-protected storage, Data General is recognized as the world's leading storage supplier to OEMs. High-availability solutions, provided through resellers and direct-to-end users, feature flexible, scalable products for Windows NT and UNIX platforms. They include full Fibre Channel and SCSI disk arrays and Navisphere(R) storage management software. Data General, which is based in Westborough, Mass., 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 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. About Emulex Emulex is a leading designer, developer and supplier of a broad line of fibre channel host adapters, hubs, ASICs and software products that enhance access to, and storage of, electronic data and applications. The company's products are based on internally developed ASIC technology, are deployable across a variety of heterogeneous network configurations and operating systems, and enhance data flow between computers and peripherals. Emulex's products offer customers the unique combination of critical reliability, scalability, high performance and customization for mission-critical server and storage system applications. The company also markets traditional networking products such as printer servers and network access products, including communications servers and WAN adapters. Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as two-tier distribution partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa. News releases and other information about Emulex are available via the Web at http://www.emulex.com. ...I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output by Emulex(TM) Note to Editors: This news release refers to various products and companies by their trade names. In most, if not all, cases these designations are claimed as trademarks or registered trademarks by their respective companies. |
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