NEWS: CLARiiON Scores Big With AFC West Champion -- Kansas City Chiefs
SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1997--
CLARiiON Fibre Channel Storage Revolutionizes The Way Coaches
and Players Analyze Games, Scout Opponents, and Improve Player
Development
CLARiiON, the world's leading provider of open RAID-based storage solutions and Data General Corporation company (NYSE:DGN), today announced that the National Football League's AFC Western Division champion Kansas City Chiefs are using its FC5000 Series fibre channel disk array to provide coaches and players with instant access to game footage for analyzing games, scouting opponents, and improving player development. The powerful and easy to use CLARiiON FC5000, used in conjunction with AVID Sports' complete line of SPORTSPRO editors and SPORTSVIEW Coaching Stations, allows the Kansas City Chiefs to work far more efficiently, saving both time and money, while benefiting from a totally different perspective on game preparation.
"There are no more lost tapes. No tape rewinding, tape dubbing, tape swapping, tape shuttling, or long delays in getting the cutups the team needs copied to tape," said John Wuehrman, video director for the Kansas City Chiefs. "With AVID Sports SPORTSPRO and SPORTSVIEW along with the CLARiiON fibre channel FC5000 I know the system is going to be up and running 100% of the time. Anything less would not be acceptable to me and certainly not acceptable to the team we just don't have the time."
"CLARiiON fibre channel technology offers two primary advantages for video storage bandwidth and network support," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager of CLARiiON. "Because of fibre channel's fast speeds, it can deliver multiple streams of uncompressed digital video over a single fibre channel loop. This allows the FC5000 to provide a much lower cost/stream than earlier parallel SCSI technology and allows more simultaneous views from the same video on the same network."
CLARiiON announced a strategic reselling agreement with Avid Sports in July, 1997. Under terms of the agreement, Avid Sports resells the FC5000 Series fibre channel disk array as a key component of their total sports offering.
About the CLARiiON FC5000 Disk Array
The FC5000 Series disk array is the capacity building block for the CLARiiON FC5000 Series Fibre Channel Disk Array Family. It provides highly available packaging for up to ten dual-ported, high-performance, fibre channel disk drives in a modular chassis. Individual FC5000 disk array modules can be configured together in JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) subsystems, or attached to a CLARiiON FC5500 Series disk array to form highly available RAID subsystems. Connection to host servers, hubs, or switches is through a redundant pair of 100 MB/second fibre channel loops.
Boasting a capacity up to 91 GB, the FC5000 is available as a rackmount (3.5U) unit, a 10-slot deskside unit, and a 30-slot deskside unit. 4 GB and 9 GB drives are supported. The FC5000 is both reliable and field upgradable -- configuring the FC5000 for high availability is a simple matter of adding redundant power and redundant fibre channel paths. All components are designed for online serviceability.
About CLARiiON
With more than 60,000 disk arrays and over 2 petabytes (2,000 terabytes) of usable RAID-protected storage shipped, CLARiiON is the leading supplier of advanced storage solutions to major computer system manufacturers, value-added storage resellers, and system integrators around the world. CLARiiON high availability solutions are based on Multidimensional Storage Architecture and feature a full range of flexible, scalable products for UNIX and Microsoft Windows NT platforms, including SCSI arrays, end-to-end fibre channel arrays, and enterprise storage management software. For more information regarding CLARiiON and its enterprise storage solutions, call 1-800-67-ARRAY, email info@clariion.com, or visit its home page at clariion.com .
Data General Corporation, headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage systems, and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.5 billion for fiscal 1997. Additional information on Data General Corp., its products, and its services is available on the Internet at dg.com .
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CONTACT:
CLARiiON
Nicole Gorman
508/480-7203
ngorman@clariion.com
or
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David Resnic
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or
Data General Corp.
Jim Dunlap
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