Zzyzx Expands Its Popular RocketSTOR Line of RAID Storage Solutions With Powerful Enhancements; Company Demonstrates New Additions at LISA 2000, Dec. 6-8.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers LISA The first personal computer to include integrated software and use a graphical interface. Modeled after the Xerox Star and introduced in 1983 by Apple, it was ahead of its time, but never caught on due to its $10,000 price and slow speed. Show (Booth 300) NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2000 Zzyzx Peripherals Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative SAN disk and tape storage solutions, workstations, and peripherals for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT environments, today announced the expansion of its widely used RocketSTOR brand of RAID array storage systems with two additions that deliver new levels of power and capacity. Shown for the first time here at LISA 2000, the premier hands-on technology event for systems management/administration products and services, are Zzyzx' RocketSTOR 1000 and RocketSTOR 500-S. RocketSTOR 1000 The RocketSTOR 1000 is a powerful new departmental class Fibre Channel interfaced SAN-ready RAID array. It is designed for high-performance UNIX and NT computing applications requiring up to 2.8 TB of usable disk storage and mission-critical 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. . The RocketSTOR 1000 complements Zzyzx' Fibre Channel interfaced data center class RocketSTOR 2000 and workgroup class RocketSTOR 500, expanding the company's wide range of SAN-ready RAID solutions for capacity requirements ranging from 18GB to 7 TB. Users also enjoy the benefit of maintaining the same 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. architecture and management interface across these products. With this assortment to choose from, users can easily select the most effective blend of performance, capacity, fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and scalability to meet their system requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. . RocketSTOR 500-S The RocketSTOR 500-S brings the performance found in Zzyzx' Fibre Channel interfaced RocketSTOR 500 model to users with simple server-attached 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. storage requirements through the new Ultra 160 SCSI connectivity. This robust midrange system is optimized for UNIX and NT computing environments, and provides up to 1.6 TB of usable disk storage and mission-critical data availability. Common to both the RocketSTOR 1000 and RocketSTOR 500-S is the same new high-performance RS-62 core RAID controller architecture -- already used in Zzyzx' RocketSTOR 2000 and RocketSTOR 500 RAID arrays. This advanced architecture features a Strong ARM SA-110 RISC processor RISC processor [Reduced Instruction Set Computer], computer arithmetic-logic unit that uses a minimal instruction set, emphasizing the instructions used most often and optimizing them for the fastest possible execution. , 1 GB of cache memory (with an advanced set of caching algorithms), internal 32-bit and 64-bit PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). busses and an advanced multi-tasking controller operating system. Zzyzx RocketSTOR RAID arrays are designed to provide exceptional performance for 7 x 24 mission-critical applications, offering extreme fault tolerance supporting no single point of failure. All field-replaceable units are redundant and hot-swappable, including the RAID controllers, disk drives, power supplies and cooling fans. In addition to RocketSTOR 1000 and RocketSTOR 500-S, Zzyzx will also exhibit the key components to their innovative SAN storage solutions at LISA 2000, including: -- RocketSTOR 2000 RAID Array -- RocketSTOR 500 RAID Array -- Qualstar AIT Tape Library -- Q-Logic SANbox Fabric SAN Switch -- Gadzoox Capellix FC-AL SAN Switch -- Q-Logic/JNI/Emulex HBAs As well as: -- Tatung Sun-compatible workstations and servers About Zzyzx Zzyzx Peripherals Inc., headquartered in San Diego, manufactures and distributes innovative disk and tape storage solutions, workstations, and peripherals for UNIX and NT environments. The company's extensive product line includes leading-edge storage solutions such as RAID arrays, customized Storage Area Networks (SANs) using Fibre Channel and SCSI technologies, Sun compatible SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill workstations, and other storage related peripherals and products. To learn more about Zzyzx' products, custom storage solutions and outstanding service and support, access Zzyzx Peripherals Inc. at www.zzyzx.com and www.zcommerce.net. All trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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