Data General Boosts AViiON Mid-Range and High-End Servers With Intel's 450 MHz Pentium II Xeon Processors.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999-- 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 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 Plus AVFlex(tm) and Award-Winning "in-a-Box" Offerings to Gain Additional Computing Power to Support Enterprise Applications Data General Corporation today announced that its mid-range and high-end AViiON(R) servers are now available with Intel's new 450-MHz Pentium(R) II Xeon(tm) processors, including servers that power award-winning "in-a-Box" packages and the AVFlex(tm) partitioning environment. "Our strategy is to maintain an aggressive development schedule which tracks the Intel processor roadmap and allows us to add value with packaging and services," said Linda Mentzer, vice president of AViiON Marketing at Data General. "This approach has resulted in a strong value proposition that delivers significant benefit to customers. One example is our unique `in-a-Box' pre-loaded and pre-tested packages that reduce deployment time for business-critical Windows NT applications. Another is the AVFlex environment, based on the AV 25000 NUMA server, which includes a set of partitioning services to help customers to run DG/UX and Windows NT applications in the same system." "Data General has been one of the leaders in the industry in incorporating the latest Intel technology into innovative packaging and systems architecof Intel's 450-MHz 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." AViiON Windows NT Servers AV 3700; AV 3700R Midrange Sever-in-a-Box(tm) packages. An NT Cluster-in-a-Box package includes two AV 3700 servers running Microsoft Cluster Server Clustering software from Microsoft for Windows NT/2000. It provides rudimentary load balancing and two-node failover, which allows a second server to take over if the first one fails. Cluster Server was formerly code named Wolfpack. combined with a CLARiiON(R) RAID Fibre Channel storage system and the company's NTerprise Manager(tm) server management software, which includes the NTAlert(SM) "call home" service processor. TermServer-in-a-Box includes up to four AV 3700 servers running Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT Server, Terminal Server Edition and user applications. AV 8700 High-end Server The AV 8700 is the industry's first Windows NT server designed specifically for clustering, with an advanced server chassis that can support two four-way systems in a high- availability NT Cluster-in-a-Box configuration which includes CLARiiON full Fibre Channel storage. Each AV 8700 system supports two or four 450-MHz Pentium II Xeon processors with a choice of either 512 KB or 2 MB cache, up to 8 GB of ECC-protected memory, 10 PCI slots, and 13 internal 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. bays. Storage options include nine internal disk array SCSI bays or CLARiiON full Fibre Channel storage. The standard AV 8700 chassis incorporates fully redundant and hot swappable See hot swap. power supplies and cooling fans and can house up to four systems (16 processors) in a single cabinet. To ensure 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. , extensive diagnostics features are built-in to the AV 8700 system architecture, as well as support for deconfiguration with automatic re-boot if CPUs, memory modules, or power supplies fail. AViiON UNIX Servers; AVFlex Environment AV 25000 NUMA Server Data General's AV 25000 server, using the DG/UX operating system, can support up to sixty-four 450-MHz Pentium II Xeon processors, 64 GB of memory, and over 100 Terabytes of CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage through as many as 160 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). 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 slots for balanced application performance and scalability. The AV 25000 continues Data General's high-availability tradition with dedicated diagnostics processors, AV/Alert(SM) "phone home" remote support, redundant, hot-swappable power and cooling, as well as clustering capabilities including Disaster Recovery Clusters. AVFlex Environment The AV 25000 server is the foundation for Data General's AVFlex computing environment. With AVFlex, users can take advantage of the modular growth of the AV 25000 server to adapt to changing business needs, mix AV 20000 (Data General's previous high-end NUMA server) and AV 25000 building blocks to gain maximum investment protection, partition AV 25000 systems to flexibly deploy DG/UX(R) and NT applications, integrate systems management for cost-effective administration, and obtain consulting and implementation services for fast deployment. 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 solutions for customers worldwide. The company's 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, CLARiiON, DG/UX and Cluster-in-a-Box are registered trademarks; TermServer-in-a-Box and NTerprise Manager are trademarks; and NTAlert and AV/Alert are service marks of Data General Corporation. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks, and Xeon is a trademark of Intel Corporation. All other brand names and product names referred to in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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