IBM ships 1,000th RAMAC Array disk storage; Citicorp Data Systems to Install High-Performance, High-Availability RAID Storage.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)--Dec. 22, 1994--IBM Corp. Thursday announced the 1,000th shipment of its RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) The first hard disk computer, introduced by IBM in 1956. All 50 of its 24" platters held a total of five million characters! RAMAC was half computer, half tabulator. Array Family of storage products for mainframe computers. The RAMAC Array entered full production in late September and is currently being shipped at the rate of more than 200 per week. The 1,000th shipment was made to Citicorp Data Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Citibank Corp. of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "The RAMAC Array Family is having a more powerful start in the marketplace than we've seen with any other high-end storage product," said Ed Zschau Edwin Van Wyck Zschau (born January 6, 1940 in Omaha, Nebraska) represented California's 12th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1987. In 1986 he ran as the Republican candidate for a seat in the United States Senate, losing to incumbent Alan , general manager, 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) Storage Systems Division. "It doesn't surprise us that RAMAC is so popular. Customers told us they want storage that combines high performance with outstanding data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. at an affordable price, and that's what That's What is one of the more idiosyncratic releases by solo steel-string guitar artist Leo Kottke. It is distinctive in it's jazzy nature and "talking" songs ("Buzzby" and "Husbandry"). RAMAC delivers. We're delighted demand is even greater than we originally predicted." With the shipment of RAMAC Array DASD (Direct Access Storage Device) Pronounced "daz-dee." A peripheral device that is directly addressable, such as a disk or drum. The term is used in the mainframe world. DASD - Direct-Access Storage Device announced today, Citicorp Data Systems will begin adding 1.4 terabytes (trillion characters) of data storage capacity at its Weehawken, N.J., facility, the corporation's primary data center for its retail banking systems. Citicorp Data Systems currently has 7.5 terabytes of storage capacity on line at the four data centers it operates. "We evaluated the RAMAC Array DASD against our needs for high performance in an environment where our customers require that accurate, up to the minute data about their accounts be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week," said John McCrossan, managing director for Citicorp Data Systems. "IBM is the only vendor offering an integrated system solution, including storage management software, and that's what tipped the balance for us." Products in the RAMAC Array Family are based on a fault-tolerant RAID 5 architecture incorporating IBM's customer-proven 3.5-inch disk drives. RAID 5 architecture spreads data and parity information across an array of disk drives so that data located on a failed drive can be reconstructed re·con·struct tr.v. re·con·struct·ed, re·con·struct·ing, re·con·structs 1. To construct again; rebuild. 2. instantaneously, virtually eliminating the loss of customer data caused by failure of a single disk drive. The IBM RAMAC Array Family, announced in June, consists of two members: the RAMAC Array DASD and the RAMAC Array Subsystem. Both products offer up to 90.8 gigabytes (GB) of information storage and are easily installed in existing customer hardware and software environments. The RAMAC Array DASD is attached to cache models of the IBM 3990 Storage Control to form a complete subsystem. The RAMAC Array Subsystem has an internal controller and attaches directly to system processors. IBM is the world's largest supplier of computer storage products. Through its Storage Systems Division, the company provides a full line of data storage solutions for IBM systems, for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and for commercial distribution. Its offerings include disk drives, disk arrays and subsystems, magnetic tape subsystems, automated tape libraries, optical drives and libraries, storage controllers and storage management software. -0- Note to Editors: IBM and RAMAC are registered trademarks or trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. CONTACT: IBM Storage Systems Division Carol Keslar, 408/256-9451 |
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