Siemens to Integrate Mylex Fibre Channel Raid Controllers Into New Line of External Server Storage Systems; Mylex Expands Long-Standing OEM Relationship with Siemens
Business Editors and Computer Writers
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1998)--Mylex Corp.
(Nasdaq:MYLX), the world's leading RAID controller vendor in the
non-captive network systems marketplace, today announced Siemens
Information and Communication Products has integrated Mylex's Fibre
Channel RAID controller technology into Siemens' new line of
high-performance external storage systems.
The controller, the DAC960SF, is the second Mylex controller to
be incorporated into Siemens' Primergy Server and Storage Subsystem
line. Siemens has been integrating Mylex's Ultra SCSI-to-Ultra SCSI
RAID controller, the DAC960SX, since February.
"Siemens is a valued Mylex OEM partner, and we're pleased they
have chosen to extend our long-standing relationship to include our
Fibre Channel technology," said Ron MacLeod, Mylex vice president of
Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
"This arrangement allows Siemens to introduce its first Fibre
Channel storage system for the Intel server platform, and address an
essential requirement for clustering environments."
DAC960SF Delivers Superior Performance, Flexibility and Manageability
The DAC960SF integrates the latest Fibre Channel technology to
deliver higher bandwidth connectivity over greater distances than is
possible with SCSI technology.
Fibre Channel provides over 100 MB/sec data transfer rates over a
serial link, greatly simplifying cable routing and maintenance, and
delivering unmatched performance without sacrificing data reliability.
The DAC960SF is capable of sustaining disk transfer rates of up to 52
MB/sec and burst cache transfer rates of 97 MB/sec.
The DAC960SF is extremely well suited for operation in a
clustered environment. With two copper FC-AL (Fibre Channel Arbitrated
Loop) host channels and six wide Ultra SCSI drive channels, the
DAC960SF is the flexible Fibre Channel performance leader.
The DAC960SF is dual active and dual processor enabled,
supporting cutting edge technologies such as cache mirroring and
reserve/release clustering.
In addition to providing the manageability benefits of Fibre
Channel, the DAC960SF also ships standard with Mylex's best-selling
Global Array Manager (GAM) software. GAM enables the RAID system to be
configured, maintained and monitored remotely over the Internet or
corporate intranet. GAM ships standard with Mylex's entire RAID
controller product line.
Mylex's GAM software was an important consideration for Siemens
because Siemens already integrates the software into its line of
Intel-based PC servers, which utilize Mylex host-based RAID
controllers. GAM enables Siemens to offer its customers centralized
RAID manageability and a consistent interface across its entire line
of PC servers and external storage servers.
About Siemens
Based in Munich, Germany, Siemens AG is one of the world's
largest electrical engineering and electronics companies. With sales
of approximately $63.7 billion, Siemens has 386,000 employees around
the globe. Visit Siemens on the World Wide Web at
siemens.com.
About Mylex
Founded in 1983, Mylex Corp. is an ISO 9001-certified developer
of high-performance hardware and software for moving, storing,
protecting and managing data in network and desktop environments.
Ranked as the No. 1 supplier of RAID controllers in the
non-captive network systems disk array market in the 1997, 1996 and
1995 DISK/TREND reports, Mylex produces high-performance RAID
controller subsystems, SCSI adapters and complementary computer
products for network servers, mass storage systems, workstations and
system motherboards.
Mylex products are sold globally through a network of OEMs, major
distributors, VARs and system integrators. Mylex Corp. is
headquartered at 34551 Ardenwood Blvd., Fremont, CA. 94555, and can be
reached by phone at 510/796-6100 or toll free at 800/77-MYLEX, by fax
at 510/745-8016 or on the Internet at mylex.com.
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CONTACT: Mylex Corp.
Judith Lawrence-Gates, 510/608-2244
judithl@mylex.com
or
Dovetail Public Relations
Mark Coker/Corey Oiesen, 408/395-3600
mark@dovetailpr.com/corey@dovetailpr.com
or
Mylex Corp. (European Media Contact)
Ron MacLeod, 44-1-494-890-361
ron@mylex.com
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