NEC and IBM Expand Magnetic Tape Drive Business/Technology Relationship; Growing Storage Partnership Expected to Benefit Expanded Customer Base.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 16, 1997--NEC Corporation and 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) Corporation announced today that they have signed a business and technology agreement that will expand their storage business relationship. The original agreement included NEC's manufacture and future joint development of IBM's Magstar(TM) MP 3570 tape drives. Under the expanded agreement, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. will be licensed to sell the Magstar 3570 tape drives and Fast Access Linear Tape cartridges under its own brand name, for the NEC platform as well as well as to its OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners world-wide. "This is a very significant step in enabling a wider set of customers to take advantage of the unique benefits of IBM's Magstar MP (Magstar MultiPurpose) A magnetic tape technology from IBM for midrange systems. Except for the use of linear recording, Magstar MP is completely different than the Magstar line. tape technology," said Kevin Reardon, business line manager, Storage Systems Division Removable Media In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device, conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. Storage Solutions. "Following right on the heels of our recent hard disk drive business agreement announced last month, this expanded agreement marks the continued growth of the IBM/NEC storage business relationship." The Magstar MP tape offering that NEC will be integrating into its products is a specially designed 100 GB automation system which uses up to twenty Fast Access Linear Tape cartridges, to achieve performance and access times that are dramatically improved over previous tape storage systems. Each cartridge features a unique midpoint load A dual-hub magnetic tape cartridge that is positioned at the middle of the tape to start. It enables faster searching than a single hub where all searches must start at the beginning. Magstar MP and the LTO Ultrium formats use this method. design that significantly reduces random search times for extremely fast data access and retrieval. In addition, the cartridge contains a self-enclosed tape path that eliminates time-consuming tape threading, loading, and unloading. NEC Corporation, founded in 1899, is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and had net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight of 4.9 trillion yen (U.S. $39.9 billion) in the 1996-97 fiscal year. NEC manufactures and markets a broad range of products, including computer systems from supercomputers to personal computers, communications systems, from switching systems Switching systems (communications) The assemblies of switching and control devices provided so that any station in a communications system may be connected as desired with any other station. to cellular phones, and electronic devices from microprocessors to memory chips. NEC also has various products of storage devices and subsystems including hard disk, disk array, floppy disk, optical storage and magnetic tape. IBM offers a comprehensive range of industry-leading software and hardware storage products available to customers worldwide. Through its Storage Systems Division, the company provides storage solutions for IBM and non-IBM systems, offered through IBM as well as a large network of IBM Business Partners. A selection of storage products, including industry-leading hard disk drives, is offered for use by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). In addition to disk drives, IBM's storage portfolio includes disk-based arrays and subsystems; magnetic tape drives, subsystems and automated libraries; optical libraries; storage controllers; and storage management software. -0- IBM and Magstar are trademarks or registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States and other countries. NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. IBM news releases are available on the Internet via the IBM Storage Home Page at "http://www.storage.ibm.com/storage". Information about NEC, its products and services is available on the NEC web site at "http://www.nec-global.com". The IBM Fax Information Service allows you to receive facsimiles of prior IBM product press releases. Dial 1-800-IBM-4FAX and enter "99" at the voice menu. CONTACT: IBM Corporation Jim Leal LEAL. Loyal; that which belongs to the law. , 408/256-9451 jleal@vnet.ibm.com Masanori Takahashi, 81-3-5563-4304 carp@jp.ibm.com or NEC Corporation Chris Shimizu, 81-3-798-6511 shimizu@p10-22150.star.nec.co.jp |
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