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( BW)(MN-CIPRICO)(CPCI) Ciprico First to Ship High Bandwidth Fibre Channel Solutions with 36 GB Drives
Business Editors
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1999--Ciprico Inc. (NASDAQ:CPCI) today announced they are now shipping IBM 36 GB drives with the
7000 Series Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays, increasing total storage capacity to 288 GB per unit. Ciprico is the first high bandwidth disk array storage vendor
to be shipping product with this new technology, once again proving its leadership in the industry.
"Ciprico's strategic partnership and long standing relationship with IBM has allowed us to be first to market with 36 GB drives," explained Ciprico Senior
Product Manager Gerry Johnsen. "We have had great success with the18 GB drives from IBM and expect that this new technology will allow our customers an
even greater advantage by offering more storage capacity within the same footprint, giving them a lower cost per MB."
The 7000 Series, Ciprico's fourth generation disk array, was the industry's first RAID to offer a full speed Fibre Channel interface. It now offers up to 288 GB
capacity and sustained data transfer rates of up to 100 MB/second. The 7000 Series comes with a set of redundancy features ideal for use in any real-time
environment. To protect against drive problems, the array will continue to operate after any single drive failure - with no loss in performance. Replacement of any
redundant component, such as a disk drive, power supply or fan, can be performed while the array remains running. The 7000's Fibre Channel interface has
tremendous flexibility and supports both optical and copper host connections. The 7000 is SAN ready by supporting Fibre Channel's Arbitrated Loop and
switched fabric topologies.
Ciprico designs, manufactures and markets high-performance storage solutions and professional services for visual computing and digital media industry
leaders throughout the world. Ciprico storage solutions are designed for computing applications requiring high speed image capture, full image resolution
playback, sustained performance and data protection. Ciprico is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. More information about Ciprico is available on the world
wide web at www.ciprico.com. More information on IBM disk drives can be found at www.storage.ibm.com.
For further information on the 7000 Series RAID Disk Arrays please contact:
Gerry Johnsen Susan Leenerman Senior Product Manager Marketing Director (612) 551-4055 (612) 551-4000 gerry@ciprico.com sleenerman@ciprico.com
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CONTACT: Ciprico, Inc., Minneapolis
Gerry Johnsen
Senior Product Manager
(612) 551-4055
gerry@ciprico.com
or
Susan Leenerman
Marketing Director
(612) 551-4000
sleenerman@ciprico.com
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