Dell Announces Alliance With Giganet forHigh-Speed Interconnect Technology
May 10, 1999 09:21 AM
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1999--
Provides Customers Building Block for Developing Highly Scalable System Area Networks With Dell(R) PowerEdge(R) Servers
Dell Computer Corporation DELL , the world's leading direct computer systems company, today announced it has entered into a technology alliance with Giganet(R) Corporation, a leading developer of high-speed computer interconnect products to enhance the scalability and performance of clustered servers.
Dell plans to offer Giganet's high-speed cluster switch and host adapters with its PowerEdge servers to help improve the performance and availability of interconnected systems. The capability will allow Dell, the No. 2 server vendor in the United States and No. 4 worldwide(a), to help customers build highly scalable Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R)-based system area network solutions using Dell PowerEdge server and PowerVault(tm) storage products.
"Dell's work with Giganet is very strategic in the development of system area network solutions, which will bring together our PowerEdge server and PowerVault storage products to tackle high-performance computing tasks typically associated with more expensive, proprietary systems," said Michael Lambert, senior vice president of Dell's Enterprise Systems Group.
"These solutions will enable customers to migrate business-critical computing jobs, such as online transaction processing, inventory control and financial applications, to industry-standard systems."
System area networks are collections of clustered servers interconnected to groups of storage systems, all working together to provide a high level of application availability, system performance and flexibility. Performance can be increased when clusters are configured to run the same application, dividing the work among individual servers in the cluster. Improved system availability levels can be achieved through failover clustering, which refers to two or more connected servers that run separate applications but have the ability to take over the role of other servers in the event of a system failure.
"This agreement with Dell allows us to provide our mutual customers with a powerful, packaged solution that meets the highest standards of system availability and reliability," said Neil Ferris, CEO of Giganet. "Dell's industry-leading PowerEdge family clustered with our cLAN(tm) interconnects represents an industry standard solution to scale mission-critical applications."
Today's announcement follows a similar agreement Dell reached with NuView for its NuView's ClusterX software. Dell plans to also use ClusterX as a key part of its system area network solutions for the management of clustered PowerEdge servers. ClusterX helps users install, configure, monitor, diagnose, manage, respond to and administer systems running Microsoft Cluster Server software.
Dell plans to offer products from both Giganet and NuView with its systems later this year.
Additional information on Dell's PowerEdge server and Dell PowerVault storage products are available at www.dell.com/products/poweredge/index.htm and www.dell.com/products/powervault/index.htm.
About Giganet
Giganet is the leader in enabling server scalability for the Internet Age. Giganet's award-winning, high-performance cLAN products enable the creation of effective Intel(R) Architecture-based server farms. The cLAN products increase the speed and efficiency of server-to-server communications for mission critical applications, such as e-commerce, enterprise messaging, parallel databases, high availability and scientific computing.
Giganet is a privately held corporation, headquartered in Concord, Mass., with offices in New Jersey, Illinois and California. The company can be reached at 978/461-0402 or giganet.com.
Ranked No. 78 among the Fortune 500 companies and No. 363 in the Fortune Global 500, Dell Computer Corporation is the world's leading direct computer systems company, based on revenues of $18.2 billion for the past four quarters. Dell designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained through its toll-free number 800/388-8542 or by accessing the Dell World Wide Web site at www.dell.com.
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Giganet is a registered trademark and cLAN is a trademark of Giganet Corporation.
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(a) Source: International Data Corporation, Commercial Systems and
Servers bulletin. Rankings based on U.S. and Worldwide "PC Server
Shipments by Vendor" for Q4, 1998.
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