DataZONE Partners with Promise to Deliver Innovative Fault Tolerant Removable Storage Solutions.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000 DataZONE Corporation, a leading developer of innovative, ruggedized storage peripherals, announced today that it will partner with Promise Technology to provide low cost, entry level fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. RAID solutions by combining Promise's intelligent, high-performance ATA-RAID cards with DataZONE's portable storage solutions. "Partnering with Promise allows DataZONE to deliver a truly remarkable RAID system unlike any other on the market today because of the removability and portability of our DataBook drives," explained Steven Kaczeus, DataZONE President and 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. . "Other removable drive (1) A device that spins, reads and writes an optical disc, hard magnetic disk or floppy (magnetic) disk, which is inserted into the unit by means of a drive tray or cartridge slot. Examples of removable drive media are CDs, DVDs, REV disks and Zip disks. See removable disk. solutions are simple trays that merely hold an unprotected internal hard drive. These solutions don't offer true data portability because of the fragility of the drive itself." "DataZONE's unique products combined with our FastTrak ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment card are an ideal solution for users that require a secure, yet removable RAID system," said Jason Turk, National Sales Manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → at Promise Technology. "And, because the products are based on ATA technology, they cost a fraction of the cost of 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. while performing at similar speeds." About DataZONE Products DataBook is a rugged, portable hard drive available in capacities of 5 to 30GB that allows users to easily transport large amounts of data, files, and applications in a single, compact footprint. DataBook has been designed to survive a fall from desktop height -- a spec unparalleled by any other storage device! Because it's interface independent, you can transfer the same DataBook from notebook to desktop through a variety of interfaces simply by changing the cable. DataBay is an innovative and flexible device bay designed to fit into a standard 5.25" half-height drive bay that transforms a DataBook into an internal device in seconds. Simply install DataBay in any vacant 5.25" half-height drive bay and slide in a DataBook of any capacity and start working. DataBay's lock provides exceptional data protection and security by ensuring that only the key holder can remove the device. Primary drive crashed? Don't worry, you can boot from DataBay. Or, use it to boot different operating systems on a single PC. DataRAID is the ultimate RAID solution incorporating removable hard drive architecture in a traditional RAID 0 (striping Interleaving or multiplexing data to increase speed. See disk striping. striping - data striping ) or RAID 1 (mirroring) environment. Once the DataRAID components are installed, slide in a DataBook of any capacity and quickly implement a fault tolerant RAID system in any desktop PC. About Promise Technology Promise Technology, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, is a worldwide leader in Ultra ATA controllers and a complete family of ATA RAID solutions that improve system performance, including Ultra ATA storage, subsystems, and ATAPI (AT Attachment Packet Interface) The specification for ATA (IDE) tape drives and CD-ROMs. See IDE. ATAPI - AT Attachment Packet Interface performance peripherals. The company has an impressive track record of design innovations and product introductions since its founding in 1988. Promise developed the first IDE caching controller, the first Ultra ATA controller card, and the first controller to offer IDE RAID for desktop PCs (FastTrak). For more information, visit Promise Technology's web site at www.promise.com. About DataZONE Founded in 1998, DataZONE is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. that develops fast, rugged, portable storage solutions that allow users to easily transport large amounts of applications and data from notebook to desktop in a single, compact format through a variety of industry standard interfaces. Its products are used for a variety of applications such as system backup; large file transportation; fast-and-simple storage capacity upgrades; downloading Internet, MP3, and digital files; and data archive. DataZONE partners include IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Apple Computer, Dantz Development, IBM, Maxtor Network Systems Group, MusicMatch, NovaStor, Phoenix Technologies, Promise Technology, RioPort.com, and Solectron. More information about DataZONE is available at http://www.datazonecorp.com/. All trademarks are registered with their respective companies. |
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