I20 Products to be announced and demonstrated at fall Comdex
Mitch, here are some excerpts from an article that discusses upcoming I20 developments (including Compaq's Proliants). The complete article can be found at the following URL by searching on "I2O" during November 1996: techweb.com
From: Commumications Week ; November 4, 1996; Issue: 636
Spec for Plug-and-Play I/O, By Sharon Fisher
Products supporting a specification (I2O) to ease driver development are expected to be announced and demonstrated at Comdex later this month. ... There were some demonstrations at spring Comdex, but there will be "a significant number of demonstrations and products" announced at fall Comdex ...
I2O will help users more easily increase the scalability of their services, according to Richard Buchanan, president of the Buchanan Group, a Peterborough, N.H., industry research consulting company. ... In particular, developments such as I2O will help users implement clustered systems, Buchanan said. Clustering lets network administrators add multiple machines and processors to a server, but the machines are addressed by users as a single unit.
"Systems like Compaq's racked systems of Proliants, running Microsoft Windows NT and using clustering technology to build enterprise-scale computing systems - that's really the future," Buchanan said. He added, "I2O and other technologies that allow other kinds of platforms to work on a clustered basis are presaging the next wave of PC-server technology." |
