Data General's CLARiiON Storage Division and BROCADE Sign Strategic OEM Agreement, Packaging SilkWorm Switches With CLARiiON Full Fibre Channel SANs
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Data General Service and Support Organization to Provide Support For BROCADE-Labeled Switches
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Data General Corporation (NYSE: DGN) and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (BROCADE(R)) (Nasdaq: BRCD) announced today that the two companies have entered into an OEM partnership agreement. As part of the OEM agreement, Data General will package the BROCADE SilkWorm(R) Fibre Channel fabric switches with its CLARiiON Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions. Additionally BROCADE inked a services agreement with Data General's Professional Service organization, which will become a worldwide authorized service provider for BROCADE-labeled products.
The CLARiiON SAN solutions, combined with the BROCADE fabric switches, provide Data General customers with a high-performance, scalable solution for backup and storage consolidation applications. The CLARiiON SAN solution packaged with BROCADE switches will support the Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX and Windows NT computing platforms.
The service agreement reinforces Data General's commitment to expanding its storage-specific services and capabilities to include a broad range of technical and consulting services that enable organizations to successfully deploy SANs in any environment. Data General will provide services through its Atlanta area-based International Call Center and through support innovations, such as its Call Home capability and remote diagnostics.
"As a premier supplier of Fibre Channel-based SAN solutions and the first major vendor to bring full Fibre Channel storage solutions to market, we are addressing the end-to-end requirements for a total solution: hardware, software, integration and services," said Joel Schwartz, senior vice president of Data General's CLARiiON Storage Division. "By deploying BROCADE's best in class products, we have taken another step in furthering this achievement."
"These agreements result in direct benefits to customers adopting SAN technologies, in particular high caliber CLARiiON SAN solutions that ensure data integrity and reliability," said Greg Reyes, president and CEO of BROCADE. "We are pleased that Data General has selected the SilkWorm product family, after an extensive product evaluation, for bringing standards-based, open SAN solutions to market."
CLARiiON SANs
Data General's CLARiiON Storage Division has proven its technical innovation and leadership with its long-standing commitment to delivering high availability, full Fibre Channel RAID arrays into the open systems market. With such expertise in Fibre Channel, the foundation for Storage Area Networking, Data General is very well positioned with a mature, volume tested, industry leading family of "SAN Ready" storage solutions -- the CLARiiON FC5000 product family.
CLARiiON SAN solutions will allow organizations to employ data migration applications and share data stored on CLARiiON full Fibre Channel arrays in multi-server platform environments, including Windows NT and UNIX. The ability to manage storage as a separate and independent asset provides new levels of flexibility in enterprise IT management. This ability can be found today in CLARiiON SANbackup, Data General's full Fibre Channel LAN-free backup storage solution.
About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
BROCADE is the leading supplier of open Fibre Channel Fabric solutions that provide the intelligent backbone for Storage Area Networks (SANs). The BROCADE SilkWorm(R) family of Fibre Channel switches and BROCADE SAN management software are designed to optimize data availability in the storage enterprise. Using BROCADE solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of Storage Area Networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency and performance.
BROCADE is committed to maintaining open, standards-based solutions. Leading systems, applications and storage vendors have selected BROCADE as their Fibre Channel connectivity standard, including CNT, Compaq Computer, Data General Corporation, Dell Computer, Groupe Bull, IBM, McDATA Corporation, NEC, Network Appliance, Sequent, Siemens Computer Systems and StorageTek. In addition, BROCADE counts industry leaders Computer Associates, Emulex, Legato, QLogic, Tivoli Systems, and VERITAS among its strategic partners. The company's headquarters is at 1901 Guadalupe Parkway, San Jose, CA 95131. Visit BROCADE at brocade.com, or contact the company at info@brocade.com.
About Data General CLARiiON
With its CLARiiON storage family, Data General Corporation is the first major vendor to ship end-to-end Fibre Channel disk arrays, the foundation for deployment of Storage Area Networks (SANs). Having shipped more than 100,000 CLARiiON disk arrays and over 7 petabytes (7,000 terabytes) of usable RAID-protected storage, Data General is recognized as the world's leading storage supplier to OEMs. High-availability solutions, provided through resellers and direct to end users, feature flexible, scalable products for Windows NT and UNIX platforms. They include full Fibre Channel and SCSI disk arrays and Navisphere(R) storage management software.
Data General, which is based in Westborough, Massachusetts, is a major supplier of storage and enterprise computing solutions for customers worldwide. In addition to CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, the company's products include high-end NT and UNIX-based AViiON servers, and related software and services. The company reported fiscal 1998 revenues of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com. More information on CLARiiON technology and products can be accessed on the Internet at www.clariion.com.
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