StorageTek Joins EMC, Microsoft and Unisys in Ambitious E-Commerce Demonstration at COMDEX Fall '99.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- StorageTek's Leading Tape Technologies Back World's Largest Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 2000 OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing System with Unprecedented Performance StorageTek(TM) (Storage Technology Corp.) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :STK) today joined 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. Corp., Microsoft Corp., Unisys Corp. and other technology industry leaders at COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Fall '99 to unveil the "Data Center of the Next Millennium." This full-function, enterprise-class electronic business environment is designed to simulate the rigorous infrastructure demands of the burgeoning Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . StorageTek's enterprise-class tape technologies ensure the record-setting backup and restore times of this ambitious e-commerce demonstration. Led and built by Unisys, and based on heterogeneous technologies from StorageTek, Unisys, Microsoft, EMC, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Intel, Giganet, Imation, Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, , NetIQ and QLogic, the Data Center of the Next Millennium is the largest-capacity online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. (OLTP) system ever created for electronic business on the Windows 2000 operating system. Tape technology, through StorageTek's continuous innovation and integration work, has been redefined to deliver tremendous performance and capacity improvements. StorageTek's storage solutions have become the best-of-breed choice for corporations that demand maximum uptime and high performance at the lowest possible cost to help win over and retain online customers around the world. "StorageTek is a key enabler of the Internet economy with comprehensive, high-performance storage solutions that lower the total cost of managing corporate information," said David E. Weiss, StorageTek president, chairman and chief executive officer. "Our systems enable traditional companies and dot-com customers to focus on their core competencies while we provide the rock-solid foundation for 24x7 uptime and fast growth." StorageTek Provides Essential Backup and Restore to Set Record Processing more than 4,000 transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed and more than three billion Web hits per day, the simulated data center relies on enterprise-class computing technologies, including Microsoft Windows 2000. It features a nine-terabyte (TB) data warehouse -- the largest commercial database ever built using a single Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. 7. StorageTek provided three 9740 tape libraries with industry-leading automation capabilities for the demonstration. Each library houses 10 9840 tape drives, a technology co-developed with Imation to provide unprecedented backup capabilities of more than one TB/hour. This is equivalent to archiving in excess of 500 million pages in one hour. During COMDEX Fall '99, a total of 14 TB of data will be archived to the StorageTek libraries during the demonstration. The demonstration will run live, 24 hours each day, throughout COMDEX Fall '99. The data center demonstration features a simulation of an electronic business of the future, "Interstellar in·ter·stel·lar adj. Between or among the stars: interstellar gases. interstellar Adjective between or among stars Adj. 1. Outfitters," a supply site for space ships and stations. The site is expected to break numerous records, including hits per day, commercial database size and transaction power and volume. Conference attendees will be able to purchase items for the business and watch as the transactions add up. "As we are showing today, Unisys has the unique heritage and capability to bring together heterogeneous technologies to deliver full-function, enterprise-class business solutions," said Norman Goldberg, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, Worldwide Enterprise NT Services Division. "We are pleased to include our long-time partner StorageTek as an integral part of this system to help meet the backup and -- more importantly -- data retrieval requirements of tomorrow's most demanding customers." About StorageTek StorageTek is the preeminent provider of network storage. The company's strategy is to provide "Open, Intelligent and Integrated"(TM) solutions that combine storage products, storage management software and storage services. StorageTek solutions help customers collect, move, store, share and protect all types of digital content on platforms ranging from laptops to enterprise servers. The company, with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 1998. Information on StorageTek is available on the World Wide Web at www.storagetek.com, or phone 1-800/786-7835. TRADEMARKS: StorageTek and "Open, Intelligent and Integrated" are trademarks of Storage Technology Corp. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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