Data General Showcases UNIX And NT Enterprise Solutions At Oracle Openworld '97.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1997--Oracle Openworld '97 Booth no. 931-- AViiON 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. Server, CLARiiON Fibre Channel Storage, and NT Cluster-in-a-Box Provide Cost-effective, Scalable, High-Availability Platforms for Oracle Users Visit Booth no. 931 Data General Corporation will showcase a broad range of 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 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 based Refers to hardware or software that runs in the server. Contrast with client based. enterprise solutions at Oracle OpenWorld Oracle OpenWorld is an annual Oracle event for business decision-makers, IT management, and line of business end users. It is held in major cities around the world. The 2007 event was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. '97 which is being held this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. . At booth no. 931, the company will demonstrate its powerful AViiON AV 20000 NUMA technology-based server; the CLARiiON FC5500 fibre channel-based storage system; its award-winning AViiON NT Cluster-in-a-Box solution running 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 ; QAD QAD Quality Assurance Division QAD Quality Assurance Department QAD Quick And Dirty QAD Quality Audit Division QAD Quick Attach/Detach QAD Question Answer Detail (language arts education) QAD Quality Application Development Enterprise Data Warehouse; and new NTerprise Manager systems management software. "The products and solutions on display in our booth fully demonstrate Data General's commitment to providing the industry's most comprehensive line of scalable, secure and highly available UNIX and NT solutions for mission-critical computing," said Sue Sweeney, vice president of Strategic Alliances for the company. "The success of our AViiON server and CLARiiON storage systems has been a key to our reporting record revenues for the past two quarters." AV 20000 Server "The AV 20000 server, our most powerful AViiON system, is ideal for Oracle users whether for data warehousing, online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. , Oracle Applications, or intranet/internet applications that require scalability, high availability and support for very large databases and large numbers of users at cost-effective prices," said Ms. Sweeney. The AV 20000, Data General's second-generation NUMA system, supports up to 32 200- MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium Pro processors, each with 1 MB of L2 cache; 32 GB of memory and 100 Terabytes of fault-tolerant CLARiiON fibre channel storage. Up to 128 processors can be used in clustered configurations to provide even higher availability. "Sales of the AV 20000 to new and existing customers are right on target. We are seeing a great deal of enthusiasm for NUMA," commented Ms. Sweeney. "To further drive sales in one of our key application areas, we are leveraging Oracle8 as the foundation of our Business Warehouse Program." The Business Warehouse Program targets selected industries: retail, healthcare, telecommunications and manufacturing, using the AV 20000 as the hardware platform. The company recently announced a series of agreements with leading data warehousing software vendors including Constellar, Information Advantage, Quadstone and VMark Software to provide an integrated solutions framework. As part of its display, the company will demonstrate the data warehousing capabilities of Oracle8 on a sixteen-processor AV 20000 server as well as its new M3DO server management software. M3D M3D Media Dimensions LLC (Fairfield, NJ) M3D Magic Three Dimensional , which runs on a Windows NT PC, is a three-dimensional Graphical User Interface-based package that allows systems managers to easily monitor, manage and maintain the AV 20000 server. AViiON NT Cluster-in-a-Box The award-winning AViiON NT Cluster-in-a-Box provides the industry's first pre-tested, pre-configured rackmounted server clustering solution for "plug-and-play" use. Cluster-in-a-Box configurations include two AViiON servers with up to twelve Pentium Pro processors and a fault-tolerant CLARiiON storage system to help safeguard against single points of failure. Data General will demonstrate Oracle Parallel Server for NT using a Cluster-in-a-Box configured with two six-processor AV 6600 servers in a single tall rack, and exhibit a low-end Cluster-in-a-Box configuration based on two single-processor AV 2100 servers in a "low-boy" rack. "Data General and Oracle have cooperated in delivering clustering technology for several years. In fact, Data General was the first vendor to publicly demonstrate Oracle Parallel Server using a four-node UNIX cluster," said Ms. Sweeney. "We are now bringing these capabilities to the NT enterprise environment. As a result, Data General is the first vendor to win certification for a four-node Oracle Parallel Server cluster on AViiON NT servers." NTerprise Manager Data General will also showcase its new NTerprise Manager systems management product - the first integrated system-management solution fully compatible with Microsoft Management Console A Windows NT/2000 feature that provides a common environment for running management software from Microsoft and third parties. Any type of administration service such as network management, antivirus management, disk management and authentication can be created as a Microsoft Management (MMC See MultiMediaCard and Microsoft Management Console. ), an ISV-extensible, common console framework that is the core of Microsoft's management strategy for NT. With NTerprise Manager, system managers can monitor and manage hardware, systems software and applications from a central point: the NuView Management Console. The combined offering is based on Data General's NTAlert hardware monitoring system and the recently introduced ManageX system from NuView. CLARiiON FC5500 Storage system The CLARiiON FC5500 is the industry's most powerful all-fibre channel RAID solution. The system is capable of sustaining 150 MB per second for digital video streams, or more than 10,000 I/Os per second for business-critical database applications. The FC5500 is the high-end system in the FC5000 Series, the first comprehensive family of fibre channel products and industry's most scalable on-line storage solution. "With its high bandwidth capabilities, the FC5500 Series is particularly well suited for the video, multimedia, scientific and imaging storage markets. These new markets provide additional growth potential for CLARiiON beyond our traditional focus on enterprise transaction processing," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president of the CLARiiON Business Unit. QAD Enterprise Data Warehouse QAD Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse EDW Edwards, CA (aviation indentifier) EDW Electronic Document Workflow (paperless initiative of Defense Contract Management Agency) EDW Estimated Dry Weight ), a pre-fabricated data warehouse developed in cooperation by QAD, Oracle and Data General, will also be demonstrated. EDW permits users of QAD MFG/PRO enterprise resources planning (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) software to run cross-plant and cross- product line analysis for better process optimization, ultimately driving down their cost of business while increasing responsiveness to customers. Because it is pre-built, EDW promises to cut data warehouse costs and implementation time by factors of five or more. 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) ), which is based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in providing servers, storage systems and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.3 billion during fiscal 1996. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com . -0- AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks; Cluster-in-a-Box and M3D are trademarks; and NTAlert is a service mark of Data General Corporation. All brands and product names in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 jim_dunlap@dg.com or Carlos Soares, 508/898-6674 carlos_soares@dgc.ceo.dg.com |
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