Procom Technology Develops High-Availability On-line Trading and Order Routing System for Chicago Board of Trade.SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 1999--Procom Technology Inc. (Nasdaq/NM:PRCM PRCM Power, Reset and Clock Management PRCM Master Chief Parachute Rigger (Naval Rating) PRCM Passive Radiation Countermeasures PRCM Parallel Relay Channel Model ) Friday announced that it has completed the installation of a high-availability order routing system for the Chicago Board of Trade Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) The second largest futures exchange in the US, and a pioneer in the development of financial futures and options. (CBOT See Chicago Board of Trade. CBOT See Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). ). The fault-tolerant design This article is about general fault-tolerant design theory. For specific implementations, see fault-tolerant system. Fault-tolerant design refers to a method for designing a system so it will continue to operate, possibly at a reduced level (also known as graceful degradation), was developed by Procom's Enterprise Storage Networking Group (ESNG ESNG Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company (US) ) to handle the CBOT's extraordinarily high volume of on-line trading and order routing traffic without the risk of downtime. Procom's high-availability solution incorporates four Fibre channel-based RAID storage systems with embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. that provides a comprehensive range of storage management functions, including remote monitoring and administration, volume management, and a journaling file system for enhanced performance and reliability. Procom was chosen over Sun Microsystems, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. and Sybase for the CBOT project, which is valued at more than $1 million for the initial phase. According to William Morrison, vice president of Procom's ESNG division, Procom was the only company to define a solution that addressed the zero downtime demands of the CBOT's order procession environment. Procom was also able to respond to another of the board's requirements: fast turnaround. "The Chicago Board of Trade needed the equipment immediately. So we developed a solution that met all their needs within a matter of days, then broke the land-speed record for rapid installation and testing. "We had the new order routing system operational just 30 days after the contract was signed. This quick response time is possible in large part because of our division's experience in developing high-availability solutions for the most critical operating environments," Morrison explained. Procom's Enterprise Storage Networking Group is focused on providing enterprise-class storage products to Fortune 1000 accounts and government agencies. Its staff of highly trained sales and support personnel work out of ten regional offices throughout the United States, and Canada. ESNG's mission is to sell and implement enterprise-class storage solutions such as Procom's NetFORCE(TM) line of data servers into open systems environments while working closely with Procom's traditional channel partners. Procom's ESNG has sales representatives, support resources and test laboratories in Boston; Chicago; Irvine, Calif.; and Dallas, as well as remote sales and support offices in 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 ; San Jose, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Tampa Bay, Fla.; and Toronto. The Procom division plans to expand to several other key cities in the next 18 months. ESNG currently offers a complete line of products for mission-critical environments designed for maximum up-time and data availability. These products include Fibre channel and 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. RAID disk arrays, tape libraries, storage management software, clustering software, network-attached storage appliances, storage area networking solutions, 24x7 technical support, on-site service as well as design and implementation services and training. Procom Technology is a leading manufacturer of intelligent network storage solutions and a pioneer in the development of network-attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) appliances. Its products today reflect a logical, carefully planned evolution that began in the mid-1980s when Procom became nationally prominent as one of the first companies to meet the demand for complete high-performance storage systems. Procom's focus broadened in the early '90s to include CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). networking solutions, tape backup systems for networks and desktop systems, and scaleable RAID systems. The company's leadership in intelligent storage technology is exemplified today in its line of network-attached storage appliances which combine cost-efficiency, scaleability, performance and ease of integration into heterogeneous networks. The company's broad line of NAS solutions effectively meets both present and future storage requirements for constantly growing, data-dependent networks. Procom Technology products are covered by comprehensive warranty plans. Service is backed by one of the industry's most-respected technical support teams. The company has headquarters at 1821 East Dyer Road, Santa Ana, CA 92705-5700; Telephone: 949/852-1000; Fax: 949/852-1221; E-mail: info@procom.com; Web site: http://www.procom.com. Procom's products are offered in more than 90 countries worldwide. The company is publicly traded on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol "PRCM." |
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