Dataquest Forum Examines Disk Drive Reliability Specifications.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)--July 10, 1996--As system builders and disk drive vendors show increasing interest in establishing new standards for specifying drive reliability, an upcoming Dataquest conference will examine the future of mean time between failure (MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) The average time a component works without failure. It is the number of failures divided by the hours under observation. MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures ) now being used. Dataquest's one-day conference, "Disk Drive Reliability - Is It Time to Recalculate re·cal·cu·late tr.v. re·cal·cu·lat·ed, re·cal·cu·lat·ing, re·cal·cu·lates To calculate again, especially in order to eliminate errors or to incorporate additional factors or data. MTBF?", will be held July 17 at the Marriot Hotel in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . "The complexity of storage devices has increased in proportion to their enhanced capacity, performance characteristics, and interface complexity," said Phil Devin, vice president and chief analyst of Dataquest's Computer Storage program. "The time period for the products to reach maturity has increased." The conference will be divided into two parts. Speakers in the morning session will include representatives from major integrators of storage products such as Digital Equipment, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Storage Dimensions, and Unisys. These presentations will emphasize the experiences of these users with disk drive reliability and their recommendations for a better reliability specification metric. The second half of the program will be an open panel discussion with quality and reliability managers from most of the major rigid disk Same as hard disk. drive producers. This roundtable discussion will include questions from the audience. Companies represented on the panel include Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, 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) , Maxtor, Micropolis, Quantum, Seagate, and Western Digital. The objective of the forum will be to arrive at a basic agreement on a preferred product reliability measurement specification. The suggested metrics will be brought forward to the IDEMA IDEMA International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association standards committee for further industry standardization and for ultimate publication of an agreed solution to this problem. For registration or press pass information, please contact Ann Fitch at 714/476-9117. More information about Dataquest's programs, descriptions of recent research reports, and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://www.dataquest.com. Dataquest is a 25-year-old global market research and consulting company serving the high-technology and financial communities. The company provides worldwide market coverage on the semiconductor, computer systems and peripherals, communications, document management, software, and services sectors of the information technology industry. Dataquest is a Gartner Group Company. CONTACT: Dataquest Ann Fitch, 714/476-9117 afitch@dataquest.com |
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