Sequent and NUMA-Q 2000 Win Gold at Computing Awards for Excellence
BusinessWire, Tuesday, October 14, 1997 at 09:23
BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1997--Sequent Computer
Systems, Inc. has won the Gold Award for best Enterprise Server for
its NUMA-Q 2000 at the UK's largest and most prestigious IT awards,
the Computing Awards for Excellence sponsored by VNU
Publications -- publishers of the leading UK IT weekly Computing
Magazine.
Launched earlier this year, Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 (Non-Uniform
Memory Access) server provides the power and scalability of a
mainframe but with the improved price/performance and flexibility of
a client/server platform. The judges recognized Sequent's
achievement in taking Intel-based systems to new heights of
performance, scalability and robustness addressing the needs of the
corporate data center. Sequent has sold about 300 NUMA-Q 2000 data
center servers in the first three quarters since the product's
introduction.
Paul Kelly, managing director of Sequent Computer Systems UK,
accepted the award at a dinner held at London's Grosvenor House
Hotel. The judging panel included users, industry experts, suppliers
and senior representatives of VNU Publications.
"Since its launch earlier this year, NUMA-Q has redefined the
upper-end of the Unix market, opening up new possibilities in the
data centre," Kelly said. "The market response to NUMA-Q has been
exceptional with Sequent's revenues rising 48% in the second quarter
of this year, largely on the back on this breakthrough product. The
Gold award recognizes our lead over both NUMA and non-NUMA rivals at
the high-end of commercial computing. I am honored to have collected
it on the company's behalf."
Sequent also received the Bronze award in the UK IT Partnership
Category. Sequent won the award for its work with Eagle Star
Insurance, one of the UK's leading insurance companies, to replace
Eagle Star's non-compliant Year 2000 systems in time for the start of
the next millennium. |
