Data General Introduces New High-Availability Solutions for Microsoft Exchange at Tech Ed 2000.Business/Technology Editors TECH ED 2000 Booths 545 & 547 ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Division Delivers Online Data Protection, Distance Clustering, and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Guaranteeing 99.9 Percent Uptime Data General, a Division of EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : EMC), today announced its latest enhancement to high-availability Exchange solutions available for its AViiON(R) servers, including the division's Exchange-in-a-Box(R) package. Data General is offering greater data protection and application availability to Exchange-based enterprises with the addition of NSI See Network Solutions. NSI - Network Solutions, Inc. (R) Software's GeoCluster(TM) distance clustering technology. For the highest levels of data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. and protection, the division is also providing complementary solutions available on AViiON servers with EMC Symmetrix The Symmetrix is EMC's flagship enterprise storage array. There have been seven generations of Symmetrix hardware, with the first appearing in 1994 and the latest introduced in 2006. (R) Enterprise Storage systems and EMC TimeFinder(TM) software. "Messaging is a mission-critical capability for most businesses. Data General is committed to minimizing risk for Microsoft Exchange implementations by providing comprehensive, highly available solutions that extend beyond hardware," explained Data General's Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Mike Parise. "With Data General solutions for Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5, users can be confident that their messaging systems are protected to the highest degree possible." Data General's pre-packaged, pre-tested Exchange-in-a-Box solution, previously available for Windows NT Server, is now also available for Windows 2000 Advanced Server, further demonstrating the division's commitment to high-availability consolidation solutions as announced in February with the EMC/Microsoft alliance. This pre-configured package features AViiON servers, EMC CLARiiON(TM) midrange storage, and comprehensive implementation 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 . Additionally, Data General's 99.9 percent Uptime Guarantee for Exchange 5.5 has been extended to support Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Data General was the first in the industry to offer a 99.9 percent Uptime Guarantee for Exchange implementations. Data General's high-availability Exchange solutions, which include NSI's GeoCluster distance clustering technology, are being demonstrated at Tech Ed 2000 in Booths 545 & 547. Data General announced a partnership with NSI software in May, establishing the availability of NSI's replication and clustering solutions on Data General AViiON AViiON was a series of computers from Data General that were the company's main product from the late 1980s until the company's server products were discontinued in 2001. Earlier AViiON models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all-Intel solution when platforms. Specifically, NSI's GeoCluster expands replication capabilities by providing distance clustering within the 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. (MSCS See Microsoft Cluster Server. ) environment. With GeoCluster, cluster node deployments are no longer limited by geographic distance. Additionally, GeoCluster provides dedicated storage on each node of the cluster, eliminating the single shared storage characteristic associated with a standard MSCS configuration. Data is replicated to all nodes of the cluster over distance, providing data redundancy and site-level application protection that has not been available in standard MSCS configurations. This new capability will provide Exchange environments with greater data protection and application availability to meet the increasing need for uptime in today's business-critical collaboration environments. "Data's General's highly available platforms for Exchange deployments provide the ideal infrastructure for distance clustering utilizing NSI GeoCluster," stated Don Beeler, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of NSI Software. "We believe that this partnership gives customers cost-effective and higher levels of availability for solutions across the enterprise." Data General's DG/RackManager(TM), which is part of the division's DG/ManageSuite(TM) services, is among the other Data General solutions being demonstrated at the TechEd teched adj. Variant of tetched. 2000 show. Consistent with the division's strategy to simplify, control, and consolidate computing, DG/RackManager centralizes fault management and alerting, enables powerful event management, provides full remote server management and control, centralizes hardware inventory, and integrates critical management applications like VERITAS ClusterX and HP OpenView ManageX. EMC TimeFinder Also, now available for Exchange users seeking the highest possible levels of data availability and protection on AViiON servers is EMC TimeFinder software for EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage system. This software allows system and storage administrators to create, in background mode, independently addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs) for Exchange storage. BCVs are mirror images of active production volumes that can be used to run simultaneous tasks, keeping businesses running at full capacity even while scheduled outages, such as backups, occur. In the event of a failure, it allows for rapid recovery of Exchange mailboxes, getting users up and running faster. About Data General Data General, a Division of EMC Corporation, is a major supplier of consolidated computing solutions for customers worldwide. The division's products include Microsoft 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). system-based AViiON servers and related software and services. Strategic alliances with leading software vendors and systems integrators enable Data General to deliver complete solutions that meet customers' business need to simplify, consolidate, and control information technology infrastructures. Additional information on Data General, its products and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com. More information on EMC Corporation, the world's technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise storage systems, software, networks and services, can be accessed on the Internet at www.emc.com. Data General, AViiON, EMC Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON, and Exchange-in-a-Box are registered trademarks, and DG/RackManager, DG/ManageSuite, Win/Alert, and EMC TimeFinder are trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other brand names and product names referenced in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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