Data General Strengthens AViiON Departmental and DG/ViiSION PC Server Lines With Intel Pentium III Processors At 500MHz.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1999-- AV 2700R provides expandable configurations for award-winning "in-a-Box" packages Data General Corporation today announced that its AViiON(r) AV 2700 and AV 2700R departmental servers and DG/ViiSION(r) PC servers and workstations will be available with Intel's powerful new Pentium(r) III processor at 500MHz (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. . "Data General continues to aggressively implement the Intel(r) processor roadmap, while adding value with packaging and services to meet our customers' mission-critical business needs," said David Flawn, vice president of NT Marketing for Data General. Both the AV 2700 and AV 2700R will be available in April with single- or dual 500MHz Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). processors, 512KB of integrated L2 cache per processor, and up to 1GB of fast 100MHz memory. The AViiON AV 2700R server can be used in "high-density" configurations with up to 12 dual-processor systems in a 34-, 60-, or 73-inch rackmount cabinet. The tower version, the AV 2700, is designed for the office. "The stacking power of the AV 2700R server enables customers to consolidate tremendous computing power in a small footprint. These high-density configurations have been very popular with our customers in the healthcare industry whose data center space is limited and who need to reduce system management costs," said Mr. Flawn. The AV 2700R can be utilized in Data General's unique, pre-configured, pre-tested rackmounted AViiON "in-a-Box" packages, including NT Cluster-in-a-Box 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. and TermServer-in-a-Box running Microsoft Windows Terminal Server. DG/ViiSION PC Servers The new Intel processors also will be available with the DG/ViiSION 500BX+ workstation and DG/ViiSION 500ct PC server families in May. The 500BX+ workstation is a single-processor minitower min·i·tow·er n. A computer cabinet that is about half the height of a cabinet that houses a tower computer. with up to 384MB of memory, 512KB cache with five 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. The 500ct+ PC server comes in a Mid Tower configuration with one or two 500MHz Pentium III processors with 512KB cache each, up to 512MB of memory, and five I/O slots. 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 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). 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 Cluster-in-a-Box are registered trademarks and TermServer-in-a-Box is a trademark of Data General Corporation. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks 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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