MTI Ships Gladiator 6300 Fibre Channel Storage System for High-Performance Database and Transaction Processing
New System Features Increased Throughput of up to 100MB/second for
Applications that Require Fault Tolerance and High I/O Rates
ANAHEIM, Calif., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on the company's fibre channel strategy, MTI Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: MTIC) today announced its new Gladiator 6300 fault-tolerant storage solution, the third in a series of fibre channel technology products. The Gladiator 6300 is a next-generation storage product designed by MTI engineers for high-volume online transaction processing (OLTP) environments and large enterprise-wide database applications.
MTI's fibre channel architecture product is based on the industry's newest serial interconnect standard that offers several key advantages. The fibre channel architecture supports speeds up to 10OMB/second compared to traditional SCSI speeds of 20MB/second to 4OMB/second in common use today. In addition, the fibre channel architecture permits up to 128 devices to be connected at distances of up to 1O kilometers, using copper and optical cables.
"Fibre channel technology is quickly being recognized as a cost-effective solution for systems that go beyond 40 to 50 disk drives," said Robert Gray, an industry analyst at IDC. "In addition to the boost in overall system bandwidth, fibre channel systems excel at increasing scalability, performance, capacity, redundancy, distance and remote-mirroring capabilities over current SCSI technology."
Fibre channel, which is becoming the de facto standard for high-speed storage access and server clustering, supports interoperable topologies including point-to-point, arbitrated loop and switching. MTI has designed its fibre channel storage systems for multi-terabyte, enterprise-wide backbones and storage area networks where high-speed storage and retrieval is required for processing large-scale OLTP databases.
Fibre channel also offers support for clustering, which allows multiple configurations of servers to operate at performance levels that significantly exceed benchmarks of previous technologies. MTI has targeted the Gladiator 6300 for open, scalable market applications in OLTP environments, large data centers and mission-critical business systems that process a high volume of transactions in a short period of time. The Gladiator 6300 has been specifically tuned to achieve maximum performance levels from database environments, including Oracle, Informix and Sybase as well as application environments such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Baan.
"The Gladiator 6300 fibre channel series builds on MTI's commitment to the development of leading-edge technology for new generations of large, mission- critical applications," said Earl Pearlman, MTI president and CEO. "The new storage system is ideally suited for transaction-heavy computing environments that demand high availability of data, such as insurance companies, financial and banking institutions, and regional and national retail businesses."
Enterprises that have reached or exceeded the capabilities of current parallel SCSI-based solutions can expect to achieve a significant increase in overall storage system performance with the Gladiator 6300. In transitioning from SCSI to fibre channel, cabling distance may be increased from 25 meters (82 feet) to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). This dramatic increase in distance greatly expands overall system flexibility of remote solutions for off-site backup and retrieval, and disaster-tolerant systems.
"Fibre channel storage systems will increasingly be installed in enterprises that need to exceed the capabilities of current parallel SCSI and UltraSCSI architectures," Pearlman said. "The technology significantly reduces bottlenecks in data-intensive applications. It also lowers the cost of expensive and complex cabling while enhancing overall bandwidth and overcoming limitations in total node connections."
The Gladiator 6300 also can easily be integrated with MTI's recently announced Business Critical Remote Mirroring (BCRM) technology. BCRM is an open systems solution that allows a host to write data to a local primary subsystem as well as to a remote secondary storage system. In the event of a disaster or operations failure at a primary data center, the remote location can provide continuous information processing without intervention.
The Gladiator 6300 features a fault-tolerant architecture, more than 300 MIPS of processing power, up to 64MB of processor cache, up to 256MB of mirrored write-back cache plus built-in systems to monitor, configure and provide alert status via a standard Ethernet network connection. The Gladiator 6300 implements multiple RAID levels, including Levels 0, 1, 0+1 and 5, and it supports a wide array of open systems operating environments including Unix, Windows NT and OpenVMS.
Included with the Gladiator 6300 is a powerful set of Windows-based management utilities. The flexible Gladiator Storage Manager (GSM) software features enterprise-wide remote management for multiple Gladiator 6300 arrays. As part of MTI's fibre channel product family, the company will also offer a set of complementary connectivity components including hubs and switches to storage pools and storage area networks (SANs).
Gladiator 6300 Array configurations can be scaled from 18.2GB to over 1.7TB of usable storage capacity in a single cabinet. Entry level system pricing starts at $53,200 and ranges to $535,500 for a fully configured system. The new product is available for shipment 30 days after receipt of order.
MTI's mission is to be the premier provider of high-performance, cross- platform data storage management solutions for the enterprise. MTI integrates distributed data management software, a hierarchy of modular storage systems and on-site services to meet the mass storage needs of its customers. Headquartered in Anaheim, Calif., the company offers services and support from more than 40 offices in the U.S. and Europe. MTI may be reached by phone: 800-999-9MTI or 714-970-0300, fax: 714-693-2256, or e-mail: info@mti.com. Information can also be accessed via MTI On-Line, the company's World Wide Web server on the Internet at: mti.com.
This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the company's product development plans, which are subject to change. The actual results may differ materially from those described in any forward-looking statement.
SOURCE MTI Technology Corporation
CO: MTI Technology Corporation
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05/26/98 09:38 EDT prnewswire.com
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