Data General Announces Disaster Recovery Clusters for AViiON NUMA Servers; DG/UX Clustering Option Provides Protection Against Site-Wide Accidents.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998--In conjunction with its announcement of AV Flex(TM) at Data General's headquarters today, the company introduced DG/UX(R) Disaster Recovery Clusters, a remote clustering option for AViiON(R) NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) A multiprocessing architecture in which memory is separated into close and distant banks. NUMA is similar to SMP, in which multiple CPUs share a single memory. However, in SMP, all CPUs access a common memory at the same speed. servers. "In today's highly competitive marketplace, organizations need access to critical applications and data 24 hours a day, seven days a week," said Linda Mentzer, vice president of AViiON Marketing at Data General. "Remote replicated sites made possible by Disaster Recovery Clusters enable users to remain online even when major disasters hit their data centers." Disaster Recovery Clusters are available in three versions. First, users can choose to replicate just data and information at a remote location using CLARiiON(R) Fibre Channel disk arrays combined with DG/UX data mirroring. Second, a standby AViiON NUMA server may be added at the remote location to speed recovery. Finally, quickest recovery is achieved by using clustered AViiON NUMA servers at the local and remote locations with CLARiiON Fibre Channel disk arrays, and four-way DG/UX data mirroring. With CLARiiON Fibre Channel disk arrays and Fibre Channel switch In a computer storage field, a Fibre Channel switch is a network switch compatible with Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. It allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric, that is currently the core component of most storage area networks. interconnect technology, local and remote sites can be as much as 10 kilometers apart. To help customers more easily and quickly deploy remote mirroring or remote clustering, Data General offers DG/UX Cluster Planning Service and Cluster Implementation Service. Other Clustering Options: Failover Clusters and QuickClusters Data General's approach to 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. is to offer a range of choices that meet a wide variety of customers' business needs and budget constraints A Budget Constraint represents the combinations of goods and services that a consumer can purchase given current prices and his income. Consumer theory uses the concepts of a budget constraint and a preference ordering to analyze consumer choices. . To supplement the new Disaster Recovery Clusters, Data General also offers Failover Clusters and QuickClusters(TM), which provide customers with quick deployment and dedicated functionality in a single site. Failover Clusters Failover clusters simplify DG/UX Clusters(TM) installations for customers using clustered NUMA servers for high availability with no "cluster-aware" applications such as Oracle Parallel Server A version of the Oracle database system designed for massively parallel processors (MPPs). It allows multiple CPUs to access a single database. (database) Oracle Parallel Server Option. Data General provides customized services to plan and implement application and data failover procedures to meet customers' business requirements. QuickClusters QuickClusters simplify cluster configuration and installation even further with packaged hardware, software, and implementation services. QuickClusters are available in two-system (node) configurations consisting of AV 25000 servers with four, eight, sixteen, 32, or 64 CPUs per node. Each configuration includes all of the software and hardware necessary to deploy the cluster, such as the DG/UX operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , DG/UX Clusters software, Fibre Channel CLARiiON storage subsystem The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. , server and cluster management software, and DG/UX Clusters Planning and Implementation Services. Availability and Pricing QuickClusters and Failover Clusters are available now. DG/UX Clusters software ranges from $7,500 for an entry-level server to $15,000 for high-end servers. Disaster Recovery Clusters based on AV 20000 servers up to 500 meters distance are available now; 10 kilometers will be available in Q1 CY99. Disaster Recovery Clusters for AV 25000 servers will be available in Q2 CY99. About Data General Data General (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) ), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, is a major supplier of storage and enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. solutions for customers worldwide. Our products include CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, high-end 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). AViiON servers, and related software and services. The company reported fiscal 1997 revenues of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com. AViiON, DG/UX and CLARiiON are registered trademarks; AVFlex, QuickClusters, and DG/UX Clusters are trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other brand and product names appearing in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion