Data General and Daewoo Telecom form strategic partnership; Daewoo to market Data General servers and storage systems; Agreement to include Data General's NUMALiiNE technology

Business Wire, July 8, 1996

WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 1996--Data General Corporation and Daewoo Telecom Limited announced today they have formed a strategic partnership, under which Daewoo Telecom will market Data General AViiON servers, including the company's forthcoming NUMALiiNE technology based systems; and CLARiiON storage systems to its worldwide customer base.

Daewoo Telecom is part of the Daewoo Group, one of Korea's largest companies with annual sales of more than $55 billion. Daewoo Telecom is the sole manufacturer of computer systems, peripherals, system integration, and telecommunications systems for the Daewoo Group.

"With its tradition of technology excellence, Data General is the perfect strategic partner for Daewoo," said Dr. Seung-ku Yi, general manager for Daewoo Telecom's System Business Unit. "We are working with Data General because we believe NUMA technology will be the marketplace choice for high-end computing, and Data General is the leader in bringing this new technology to market."

Data General's AViiON line of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers ranges from departmental to enterprise systems. The agreement involves Data General's current AViiON product line, which includes both Intel Pentium based systems and servers using Pentium Pro based SHV (Standard High Volume) motherboards; and powerful next generation AViiON systems based on NUMA (Non-Uniforum Memory Access) architecture, which will be available late this year.

The AViiON systems run Data General's UNIX operating system implementation, DG/UX, and support SCO UnixWare 2.1.

Daewoo Telecom will also use Data General's AViiON server and CLARiiON storage products within its own and other Daewoo Group operations.

In addition, the two companies said they plan to work together on future operating system and NUMA technology efforts designed for the Korean marketplace.

Daewoo Telecom is the third major computer manufacturer to announce that it will use Data General's NUMALiiNE technology in systems it resells. ICL of the United Kingdom and Dansk Data Elektronik of Denmark announced similar plans last month.

Data General's NUMALiiNE implementation, using advanced NUMA technology, includes the ANSI/IEEE standard Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) interconnect technology and sophisticated operating system features. Using NUMA architecture, the company is building large-scale systems linking multiple Intel SHV servers that will perform at levels far beyond today's most powerful SMP systems. The SHV boards include up to four Pentium Pro processors with 512 KB cache per processor, up to 4GB memory, and dual PCI I/O channels.

"We are very pleased to be working with Daewoo Telecom, one of the world's most sophisticated technology companies," said Joel Schwartz, Data General vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. "This is a significant agreement as it will greatly expand our market presence in Korea and the Pacific."

Phil Gerskovich, vice president of Data General's NUMALiiNE Business Unit, added, "We will be at the forefront in delivering these powerful large-scale systems. NUMA will become a leading commercial technology since, unlike Massively Parallel Processing systems, existing SMP software applications do not have to be modified."

As part of today's agreement, DaeWoo Telecom also will resell Data General's full line of CLARiiON storage systems and associated peripherals with the AViiON servers.

CLARiiON systems range from the entry-level Model 150 designed for PC LAN environments to the rackmount, 20-drive Series 2000 systems designed for enterprise-level environments, supporting multiple Terabytes of storage in a single unit.

CLARiiON storage arrays can be configured to deliver the desired level of RAID technology support necessary to meet all application performance and data availability requirements.

The Daewoo Group, based in Seoul, Korea, is one of the world's largest enterprises, comprised of 24 domestic companies, 253 overseas subsidiaries and over 125,000 employees. Daewoo is engaged in trading worldwide through 94 overseas branches; in domestic and overseas construction; in shipbuilding; and in the manufacturing of motor vehicles, heavy equipment, telecommunications equipment, machine tools, industrial robots, home appliances and consumer electronics, textiles and other products. In 1995 Daewoo was ranked 52nd in "the Fortune Global 500" by Fortune magazine.

Data General (NYSE:DGN), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers and storage systems and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported fiscal 1995 revenues of $1.2 billion. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com.

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