DGN and AVID.......
Avid Technology Taps Data General CLARiiON Full
Fibre Channel Storage for Networked Digital Media
Solutions
Data General CLARiiON and Avid Team Up at NAB '99 to Demonstrate Avid Unity; Avid's
Collaborative Digital Media Production Solution
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999-- The CLARiiON Advanced Storage Division of Data General
Corporation announced today at the NAB '99 Conference that its CLARiiON FC5000 full Fibre Channel storage array will
provide the networked storage backbone for Avid's newly announced digital media production solution, Avid Unity. In order
to deliver true collaborative digital media creation solutions with simultaneous access to media during the post-production
process, Avid Unity relies on the high-performance, high scalability and integral data availability provided by the CLARiiON
FC5000. As post-production processes are continually evolving into digital-only environments in the broadcasting industry,
advanced storage solutions, such as CLARiiON, play a critical role in successful digital media production.
''Avid Technology, an innovator in digital media technology, is continually developing products that are revolutionizing the
digital audio and video community,'' said Dennis Hoffman, director of product marketing of networking and storage for Avid
Technology. ''CLARiiON has been a long-time provider of advanced disk storage solutions to Avid, and as the first storage
provider to deliver complete, end-to-end Fibre Channel storage solutions, has played an important role in our ability to
develop such innovative solutions as Avid Unity.''
''CLARiiON recognized very early on that full Fibre Channel storage solutions would play a critical role in emerging
multi-media and video technology applications, such as Avid's Unity,'' said Joanne Masingill, vice president of marketing at
CLARiiON. ''Avid Technology has been a long-term business partner of ours because they also recognize the added value
that CLARiiON full Fibre Channel storage solutions bring to the table for their entertainment industry customers.''
CLARiiON Fibre Channel Storage Gets a Starring Role at NAB '99
Proven, high-speed storage has quickly become a critical component in the evolution of audio and video applications.
CLARiiON full Fibre Channel storage solutions are meeting this need with its family of high-performance, high-capacity,
scalable and reliable storage solutions and are enabling new, innovative processes for production and delivery of video and
audio content in the broadcasting industry. For example, a single CLARiiON RAID subsystem can broadcast and record
several simultaneous video streams from the same disk array - impossible to accomplish with traditional video processes. In
fact, more than 20 terabytes of CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage will be present in over 30 booths on the NAB show floor.
Visiting CLARiiON at NAB '99
NAB '99 is being held Monday, April 19 through Thursday, April 22, at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Sands
Exposition Center in Las Vegas, NV. CLARiiON full Fibre Channel storage solutions and demonstrations can be seen at the
CLARiiON booth (# S5141) in the Sands Exposition Center.
About CLARiiON
The CLARiiON Advanced Storage Division of Data General Corporation is the first major vendor to ship end-to-end Fibre
Channel disk arrays. Having shipped more than 90,000 disk arrays and over six and a half petabytes (6,500 terabytes) of
usable RAID-protected storage, CLARiiON is recognized as the world's leading storage supplier to OEMs. Our
high-availability solutions, provided through resellers and direct from CLARiiON, feature flexible, scalable products for
Windows NT and UNIX platforms. They include full Fibre Channel and SCSI disk arrays and Navisphere® storage
management software. For more information about CLARiiON, visit our web site at www.clariion.com.
About Data General
Data General (NYSE:DGN - news), based in Westborough, Massachusetts, is a major supplier of storage and enterprise
computing solutions for customers worldwide. The company's products include CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems,
high-end NT and UNIX-based AViiON servers, and related software and services. The company reported fiscal 1998
revenues of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at
www.dg.com.
AViiON, CLARiiON, and Navisphere are registered trademarks, and Multidimensional Storage Architecture and
TermServer-in-a-Box are trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other brand and product names referenced in this
press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
