Zzyzx To Show Powerful Fibre Channel RAID Storage Solutions for Government Market At FOSE 2000.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers FOSE FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition 2000 WASHINGTON --(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2000 FOSE, Booth No. 3002 Zzyzx Peripherals, Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative 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, will show its complete line of Fibre Channel interfaced RAID arrays, tape back-up solutions and Sun 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 compatible workstations and servers here at FOSE 2000, the leading annual event for the government information technology community. Zzyzx is a key IT supplier to the Federal Government, and government agencies can easily access Zzyzx' storage solutions through their GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. schedule. High Performance, SAN-Attached RAID and Tape Solutions Zzyzx offers an extensive line of RAID and tape back-up products that scale from economical SCSI interfaced workgroup systems to high-end fibre channel interfaced enterprise class Storage Area Networks (SAN) solutions. Zzyzx disk and tape storage solutions are built-to order, and feature a scalable "pay as you grow" architecture. An Enterprise-class Fibre Channel RAID array offering the highest levels of performance, capacity and scalability. The RocketSTOR 2000 is a key component of Zzyzx' highly scalable SAN solutions, featuring centrally managed high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. data clusters, data replication, data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , and LAN-free server-less back-up. These systems feature hot swap To pull out a component from a system and plug in a new one while the main power is still on. Also called "hot plug" and "hot insertion," hot swap is a feature of USB devices, allowing an external drive, network adapter or other peripheral to be plugged in without having to power down the , active/active, and dual redundant RAID controllers with two 100 MB/sec Fibre Channel host interfaces and scale to provide 5.6 TB of total storage capacity. Designed for Mission Critical Government Applications The RocketSTOR 2000 is designed to provide exceptional performance and scalability for 7 x 24 mission critical applications, offering extreme 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. with 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. The RocketSTOR 2000 maximizes the full potential of the high-speed Fibre Channel storage interface and truly satisfies the needs of high bandwidth and I/O intensive Government computing applications requiring terabytes of storage. These high availability systems provide the performance and uptime required by business-critical applications such as imaging, online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. , data warehousing, web serving, and e-commerce. Availability and Support The RocketSTOR 2000 is currently available directly through Zzyzx. These rack mount systems can be configured from 81 GB to 5.6 TB utilizing 9 GB, 18 GB, 36 GB, and 72 GB in both 7,200 and 10,000 RPM. Complete product specifications can be found at www.zzyzx.com. Zzyzx backs all of its products with its award-winning lifetime toll free technical support, and comprehensive warranty programs. Optional express replacement warranties, on-site installation, training, 7x24 telephone support, and 7x24 on-site maintenance are also available. Zzyzx - A GSA Supplier Government agencies can easily access Zzyzx storage solutions through the Federal Supply Schedule (GSA). The company's range of products, one of the broadest on the schedule, includes flexible external RAID storage subsystems, AIT and DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. tape libraries, as well as a host of Sun-compatible workstations and servers. About Zzyzx Zzyzx Peripherals, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, CA, 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 (SAN) using 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. technologies, Sun compatible SPARC 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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