Dataquest Names Mylex World's Number One Non-Captive RAID Controller Vendor in New 1998 Report.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1998--Mylex Corporation's (Nasdaq:MYLX) worldwide leadership in the non-captive RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. market was re-affirmed recently when Dataquest, the market research unit/division of GartnerGroup, Inc. (Nasdaq:GART GART Phosphoribosylglycinamide Formyltransferase/Phosphoribosylglycinamide Synthetase/Phosphoribosylaminoimidazole Synthetase GART Graphics Address Remapping Table (AGP chipset) GART Graphics Address Relocation Table ), published its 1998 RAID Focus Report. According to the report, which analyzes worldwide unit shipments for 1997, Mylex was the number one supplier of non-captive RAID controllers, defined as RAID controllers not manufactured by the server vendor. Mylex was second only to Compaq (Nasdaq:CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) in overall worldwide RAID controller shipments, according to the report. "This Dataquest report confirms Mylex's leadership in the RAID market," said Al Montross, Mylex 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. . "Mylex achieved its leadership position by providing its customers world-class RAID technology and exceptional service and support. We're working to extend our leadership though continued technological innovation, expanded channels programs, improved customer support and aggressive corporate branding campaigns." Mylex Offers Industry's Broadest Line of RAID Controllers Mylex offers the industry's most complete line of high performance, highly fault-tolerant RAID solutions, with products ideally suited for high-performance desktops, entry-level servers, mid-range servers, and enterprise-class super-servers. All Mylex products can be remotely managed in enterprise environments with Mylex's GAM(tm) RAID management software, which ships standard with all Mylex products. Mylex RAID controllers have established more TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. world records over the last twelve months than any other vendor. Mylex's product line includes low-cost host-based internal RAID adapters such as the AcceleRAID(tm) family; high-performance PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). RAID controllers such as the DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter 960PJ(tm) and eXtremeRAID(tm); and high-performance external RAID controllers such as the DAC960SX, the DACSF and the DACFL. Mylex's product line provides support for all the latest disk drive interface technologies, including Ultra SCSI, Ultra2 SCSI LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential and Fibre Channel. About Mylex Founded in 1983, Mylex Corporation is an ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001-certified developer of high-performance hardware and software for moving, storing, protecting and managing data in network and desktop environments. Ranked as the No. 1 supplier of RAID controllers in the non-captive network systems disk array market in the 1998 Dataquest report and in the 1997, 1996 and 1995 DISK/TREND reports, Mylex produces high-performance RAID controller subsystems, SCSI adapters and complementary computer products for network servers, mass storage systems, workstations and system motherboards. Mylex products are sold globally through a network of OEMs, major distributors, VARs and system integrators. Mylex Corporation is headquartered at 34551 Ardenwood Blvd., Fremont, CA 94555, and can be reached by phone at 510-796-6100 or toll free at 800-77-MYLEX, by fax at 510-745-8016 or on the Internet at http://www.mylex.com. |
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