Data General Demonstrates Leading Enterprise AViiON Server And CLARiiON Storage Solutions for Federal Market At FOSE '99.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999-- Industry-leading Full Fibre Channel Storage Solutions Provides Foundation for Storage Area Networks (SAN); Peter Gibbs Peter Gibbs is a BBC Weather forecaster, born in Sunderland, who appears regularly on BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World and BBC Radio, particularly BBC Radio Four. He is a main weather presenter on the BBC Six O'Clock News, and was previously a main weather presenter on the BBC One of CLARiiON Kicks Off SAN Summit To help federal agencies cope with the need for faster decision making based on continuously growing mountains of data, Data General Corporation will be demonstrating its industry-leading CLARiiON(R) full Fibre Channel storage systems and AViiON(R) TermServer-in-a-Box(tm) thin-client/server computing solution at FOSE FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition '99, March 16-18 at the Washington Convention Center The Washington Convention Center has been the name of two convention centers in Washington, D.C. The old Washington Convention Center was located at 909 H Street NW and was in use from 1983 until 2004. . CLARiiON Full Fibre Channel Storage Data General's CLARiiON Advanced Storage Division is demonstrating its full end-to-end Fibre Channel storage to the federal community. CLARiiON is the only major storage vendor currently shipping full end-to-end fibre channel storage, the foundation technology for Storage Area Networks (SANs). SANs are widely accepted as the emerging solution for enterprise storage, enabling consolidated storage pools of highly available and accessible information. Over one Terabyte of CLARiiON storage will be managed by Navisphere(R) storage management software, a suite of products that enables system administrators to configure, control, monitor, augment, and respond to all operations of their CLARiiON storage from a single management station located anywhere in the world. Also, Peter Gibbs, Director of Marketing for Data General's CLARiiON Advanced Storage Division is kicking off FOSE's two-day SAN Summit. Gibbs will discuss with attendees the emergence of the hottest acronym in the industry - SANs - and the business benefits they bring to the federal industry. Gibbs will present today from 9:00 - 9:50 a.m. in the main conference area. AViiON TermServer-in-a-Box Data General's AViiON TermServer-in-a-Box provides a complete thin-client computing infrastructure in one rackmounted system ideal for federal agencies. TermServer-in-a-Box offers great performance, scalability, manageability, and 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. , while reducing the total cost of ownership. The TermServer-in-a-Box configuration consisting of two clustered AV3704R database servers with CLARiiON full Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays running Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. software, and three AV2700 application servers running 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. Server, Terminal Server Edition and Citrix Systems' MetaFrame load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them software. Data General's Federal Customers Data General's enterprise AViiON servers and CLARiiON advanced storage solutions are installed at some of the top federal organizations in this country. For example, the Department of State, Department of Justice, Department of the Interior, U.S. Air Force, and several federal Intelligence Agencies are all using Data General's leading solutions and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . About CLARiiON The CLARiiON Advanced Storage Division of Data General Corporation is the world's leading supplier of storage area network (SAN) storage solutions. To date, CLARiiON has shipped more than 80,000 disk arrays and over six petabytes (6,000 terabytes) of RAID- protected storage. CLARiiON high-availability solutions are based on its Multidimensional Storage Architecture(tm) and feature a full range of flexible, scalable products for 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). and Microsoft Windows NT platforms, including end-to-end Fibre Channel arrays, 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. arrays, and Navisphere enterprise storage management software. For more information about CLARiiON and its enterprise storage solutions, visit the web site at www.clariion.com. 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 Westborough, 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-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. AViiON, CLARiiON, and Navisphere are registered trademarks, and Multidimensional Storage Architecture and TermServer-in-a-Box are trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other brand and product names referenced in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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