Data General expands presence in telecommunications industry; Signs VAR agreement with Pacific Access.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1996--Data General Corporation and Pacific Access today announced a Value Added Reseller See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). (VAR) agreement to provide integrated solutions to the telecommunications industry. Under the terms of the agreement, Pacific Access will resell Data General's line of AViiON servers running its PAC VCL VCL - Visual Component Library (Virtual Circuit Lan) Datakit and Wide Area Virtual Enterprise (WAVE) solutions, as well as Data General's CLARiiON family of RAID technology based disk arrays. The combined products of the two companies creates a powerful LAN-based platform for network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. , data analysis and application development. By utilizing the PAC VCL Host interface, a hardware/software package that provides a high speed, fiber optic link from Datakit switches, and Data General's AViiON servers, telecommunications companies will have a mission-critical solution for virtually any local or wide area network need. To facilitate information collection, CLARiiON disk arrays provide a high-availability, open storage solution. "Pacific Access is an acknowledged leader in providing open systems solutions to the telecommunications industry in both the 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 NT environments," said John Anderson John Anderson may be: Science:
"We look forward to developing this relationship with Data General and leveraging the combined strengths of our products to offer complete solutions and services that meet any telecommunications networking requirement," said Julie Pulos, 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. and president of Pacific Access. "This agreement is the most efficient mechanism to provide access to key systems and applications, regardless of how diverse and physically distributed the network." Data General's AViiON servers are high-performance systems designed for enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. environments where high performance, 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. , scalability, and excellent connectivity are essential requirements. The AViiON line includes both departmental and enterprise systems, ranging from the low-end AV 2000 to the high-end AV 5900, which has up to four Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. processors and is based on Intel's new Standard High Volume (SHV SHV Shareholder Value SHV Standard High Volume SHV Sheave SHV Steenkolen Handels Vereeniging SHV Shreveport, LA, USA - Regional Airport (Airport Code) SHV Sport Horse Versatility SHV Supersonic/Hypersonic Vehicle SHV Super Hybrid Vehicle ) motherboard. CLARiiON systems provide the most advanced high availability RAID storage solution for open enterprise environments. The CLARiiON family ranges from the entry-level Model 150 designed for PC LAN environments to the rackmount, 20-drive Series 2000 systems designed for enterprise-level environments, supporting multiple Terabytes of storage in a single unit. The units can be configured to deliver the desired level of RAID technology support necessary to meet all application performance and data availability requirements. Pacific Access offers a complete line of software solutions for the telecommunications industry. The VCL Suite of Datakit products provides both a software and physical link, creating a high speed, fiber-optics link from Datakit II VCS/BNS Switches to Data General workstations and servers. WAVE facilitates the extraction of network element data enabling robust on-line documentation and planning tools for Central Office (CO) administration. Pacific Access, an integrated solutions provider to the telecommunications industry, is an Authorized Minority Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE MWBE Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise MWBE Maximum Welch-Bound-Equality ) and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pacific Access Technology Holdings, a privately owned corporation. Headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California Rancho Cordova is a city in Sacramento County, California, USA, that incorporated in 2003. The State of California estimates its population at 59,056 as of January 1, 2007 [1] History , PAC has regional offices located throughout the United States. Additional information about Pacific Access and its products is available on the Internet at http://www.pacacc.com. Data General, based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers and storage systems and related software and services that are sold via a direct sales force and an extensive network of channel partners to customers worldwide. The company reported fiscal 1995 revenues of $1.2 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com. -0- AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other brand and product names appearing in this press release may be trademarks of registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Jim Dunlap Frank Bernhard Data General Pacific Access 508/898-6546 916/635-9300 jim_dunlap@dg.com fbernhard@pacacc.com |
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