SunIntegration to resell ANDATACO's RAPID-Tape arrays; redundant tape backup technology for Sun workstations

Business Wire, Sept 5, 1995

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 1995--ANDATACO announced that SunIntegration, a business unit of SunService, has signed a contract to become an authorized reseller of RAPID-Tape redundant tape arrays for Sun workstations and servers.

ANDATACO developed Redundant Array of Parallel Independent Device (RAPID) technology to provide up to four times the capacity and data transfer rate of a single tape drive. RAPID-Tape supports multiple tape technologies, including 4mm, 8mm and DLT.

RAPID-Tape is perfectly suited for today's 7x24 environments and storage intensive applications such as data warehousing and imaging. RAPID-Tape arrays include up to five tape drives or stackers and an ANDATACO tape array controller packaged in desktop or rackmount enclosures.

Together, they can appear to a host or network as a single tape drive with a capacity of up to 1.12TB and a sustained data transfer rate of up to four times faster than a single tape drive. Five independent array channels enable the parallelism needed for high data throughput.

The ANDATACO tape array controller also lets the RAPID-Tape array mirror data to as many as five drives simultaneously, stripe data and parity across five drives, or pass-thru data to individual drives within the array.

``Because of the growing presence of high-capacity disk arrays, RAPID-Tape fills an acute need for high-performance, fault-tolerant network backup in a distributed client/server Sun environment,'' noted W. David Sykes, president of ANDATACO.

``As a reseller of RAPID-Tape arrays, SunIntegration has the advantage of offering a more cost-effective alternative to other more expensive backup technologies,'' he added.

SunIntegration, with headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., is a business unit of the SunService division of Sun Microsystems Inc., with offices worldwide. SunIntegration Services provides customers with the expertise to successfully migrate from legacy architectures to more flexible distributed client/server solutions using Sun products.

SunIntegration also offers comprehensive advisory and implementation services covering all aspects of information technology strategy and architecture.

ANDATACO, with headquarters in San Diego, designs and manufactures network storage solutions for the UNIX client/server enterprise.

ANDATACO solutions are marketed to Fortune 1000 companies, financial institutions, educational facilities and government agencies from 12 sales and service offices across the United States, through worldwide business affiliates in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada and Australia, and through the World Wide Web (http://www.andataco.com).

ANDATACO corporate headquarters can be reached at 619/453-9191, 800/334-9191; fax: 619/453-9294; e-mail: inquire@andataco.com. -0-

NOTE TO EDITORS: RAPID-Tape is a trademark of ANDATACO. ANDATACO is a registered trademark of ANDATACO Corp. Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, SunService, the SunService logo and SunIntegration are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Co. Ltd. All other products are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: ANDATACO Corp.

Emily Ospenson, 619/453-9696, ext. 1101

e-mail, emily@andataco.com

or

SunIntegration Services

Mary Ann Whiteman, 415/336-7748