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Sequent Marks Outstanding First Year with NUMA-Q 2000 at Oracle OpenWorld `97 in Los Angeles
September 22, 1997 12:11 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1997--One year after previewing its breakthrough NUMA-Q 2000 data center servers at Oracle OpenWorld(TM) (OOW) `96, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. today announced that it has shipped nearly 300 of the high-performance systems to large corporate customers around the world, including major orders from The Boeing Company and Oxford Health Plans.
Since launching NUMA-Q 2000 in February, Sequent has delivered abundant proof of NUMA-Q 2000 performance, scalability and availability with industry standard and application benchmarks and successful production systems at customer sites around the world.
Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 continues the company's industry leadership in the high-end mainframe alternative market, begun with it's introduction of the first commercial SMP systems in 1987. The NUMA-Q 2000 platform provides the performance, scalability, availability and manageability required to support tens-of-thousands of users and tens-of-terabytes of data for the world's largest packaged application sites, online transaction processing (OLTP) systems and decision support systems (DSS).
At OOW `97 in Los Angeles this week, Sequent will expand on its progress and success with NUMA-Q 2000 by demonstrating the world's first NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) system running Windows NT with Oracle Parallel Server (Intel booth No.1461). Sequent will also demonstrate Oracle's Network Computing Architecture with a multi-tier implementation of a Web-enabled system running Oracle's Incident Tracking System simulating a load of more than 10,000 concurrent users (Sequent booth No.1221). Sequent Chairman and CEO, Casey Powell, will deliver his keynote address to more than 20,000 Oracle OpenWorld attendees on Thursday, followed by a day of general sessions highlighting the levels of scalability, performance and availability to be achieved combining the Oracle8, the database and Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 in data center environments.
New Architecture Opens New Doors
As a long-time leader in symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems, Sequent recognized the need for higher scalability and performance than offered by conventional SMP servers. At the same time, Sequent understood that its customers would require compatibility with existing systems to protect hardware and software investments.
Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 architecture is a quantum leap for mainframe alternative computing. NUMA-Q 2000 overcomes the inherent limitations of SMP performance and scalability by seamlessly linking four Pentium(R) Pro microprocessor-baseboards or "quads" via an innovative interconnect technology called IQ-Link(TM). Sequent's IQ Link is designed to move data between up to 64 quads (252 processors) at a rate so fast (1GB per second) that the operating system and applications software continue to operate as one large shared- everything SMP system without recoding.
Since the launch of NUMA-Q 2000, it has been recognized by many leading companies as a true mainframe alternative platform. In July, Sequent secured the largest contract in company history with The Boeing Company with an order of $59 million in products and consulting services and potential for $105 million with options through March 1998. Last week, Oxford Health Plans became Sequent's largest new name customer for the system with a multi-million dollar contract for products and services to implement NUMA-Q 2000 as its primary data center platform.
Demonstrates High-End Performance, Extends Mainframe-Class Capabilities
In the first three shipping quarters, Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 has already begun to set record industry standard and application benchmarks. In July, Sequent and Informix Software, Inc. posted the record performance result (2667.67 QppD@300 GB) for the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark D (TPC-D). Also in July, NUMA-Q 2000 posted a record benchmark of 5,400 reference 0sers running BAAN IV applications. Sequent's achievement with Baan's enterprise software put it ahead of its closest competitor's published results by more than 30 percent. In August, Sequent posted the high mark of 2804 SD users for SAP's leading R/3 business application suite in a mixed NT and Unix environment.
Sequent has continued to build-on NUMA-Q 2000 availability, performance and mainframe-class capabilities. In June, Sequent became the first NUMA vendor to ship a Fibre Channel- based clustering solution, enhancing system availability. Fibre Channel/Arbitrated Loop and Very Large Memory support were also added in June, enhancing performance, availability and capacity. Sequent again upgraded NUMA-Q 2000 this month by announcing availability of Intel's next-generation Pentium Pro microprocessor with 1MB Level 2 cache for higher system performance. Brocade's Fibre Channel switch technology, shipping this month with NUMA-Q 2000, completes Sequent's Fibre Channel offering with the integration of full-speed Fibre Channel for maximum performance and availability.
About Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. is uniquely capable of delivering robust and scalable Data Center Ready open systems solutions that are guaranteed to perform. Sequent minimizes customers' risk, enabling implementation of complex business applications that support critical needs, based on the breakthrough Sequent NUMA-Q architecture, a comprehensive portfolio of proven migration services and offerings, and an established set of partnerships with the industry's best-in-class. For further information, phone Sequent at 503/626-5700 or 800/257-9044, or visit our World Wide Web site at sequent.com .
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