CLARiiON and Tech Data announce strategic partnership offering RAID solution to NT environments; Will resell Series 100 Model C150 disk arrays with mirrored write cache memory

Business Wire, April 9, 1996

SOUTHBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 1996-- The CLARiiON Business Unit of Data General Corporation, the leader in RAID disk array storage solutions, and Tech Data Corporation today announced that Tech Data will distribute and support the CLARiiON Series 100, Model C150 disk arrays.

"Our high-performance disk arrays are a powerful yet economical solution for PC-level client/server environments," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and general manager of the CLARiiON Business Unit. According to IDC analysts, the worldwide market for NT servers in 1995 was $955 million and expected to grow to $1.58 billion in 1996. "With the explosion of NT in the marketplace, the agreement with Tech Data to become a strategic partner will benefit both companies by combining CLARiiON award winning storage subsystems with Tech Data's 50,000 VARs and retailers throughout the United States, Canada and Latin America."

The CLARiiON Series 100, Model C150 disk array offers an economical storage solution for low-end UNIX and PC servers in demanding environments requiring high availability and high performance. Available in both deskside and rackmount configurations, the Model C150 has the capacity for growth up to 28 GB of disk space and has a range of 8 MB to 32 MB of write cache memory, using commodity PCMCIA technology commonly found in laptop computers. The new CLARiiON C150 mirrored cache memory board contains 2 MB of RAM and a battery that maintains continuous power for 13 months. CLARiiON is one of few vendors that provide this type of protection.

"By offering the CLARiiON Series 100 disk arrays to our customers, Tech Data can now provide a complete yet scalable storage solution for the most demanding NT environments," said Dale Ott, Director of Mass Storage Product Marketing at Tech Data Corporation. Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD) is a leading distributor of personal computer products serving more than 50,000 value-added resellers and retail dealers throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. A Fortune 500 Company, Tech Data offers comprehensive product lines in software, networking and communications, mass storage, peripherals and computer systems. In addition to distributing more than 25,000 products from over 600 manufacturers and publishers, Tech Data provides extensive pre-sale and post-sale training, service and support.

The CLARiiON Business Unit is a part of Data General Corporation (NYSE: DGN). CLARiiON leading disk array technology has been protecting customer data and information for more than four years. Data General, headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage systems and related software and services. The company reported revenues of $1.2 billion in fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com or http://www.clariion.com. -0-

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CONTACT: Kathy Ficaro Chuck Miller

CLARiiON Tech Data Corp.

(508) 480-7196 (813) 539-7429, Ext. 7251

Jim Dunlap

Data General Corp.

(508) 898-6546