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Data General Announces Availability of AV 2300 and AV 2700R Departmental Servers with Intel's Powerful 600MHz Pentium III Processors

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Data General Corporation has announced that its AViiON AV 2300 and AV 2700R departmental servers are now available with Intel's powerful 600MHz Pentium III processors. The new servers provide increased performance and expandable configurations to meet business-critical needs. The AV 2300 and AV 2700R servers are designed to offer faster processing power and higher performance without incurring increased costs for users. The AV 2700R server can be used in high-density configurations with up to 12 dual-processor systems in a 73-inch rackmount cabinet.

Key Takeaways:

  • Data General's AViiON AV 2300 and AV 2700R departmental servers are now available with Intel's 600MHz Pentium III processors.
  • The new processors provide 512KB of integrated L2 cache per processor and up to 1GB of fast 100MHz memory.
  • The AV 2700R server can be used in high-density configurations with up to 12 dual-processor systems in a 73-inch rackmount cabinet.
  • The AV 2700R also offers scalability, high availability, and pre-configured, pre-tested rackmounted AViiON "in-a-Box" packages.
  • The company's AViiON AV 2300 server provides faster processing power and increased performance without incurring increased costs for the user.
  • The AV 2700R server can be utilized in Data General's "in-a-Box" packages, including NT Cluster-in-a-Box running Microsoft Cluster Server, and TermServer-in-a-Box running Microsoft Windows Terminal Server.
  • Data General's products include CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, high-end Windows NT and UNIX AViiON servers, and related software and services.
  • The company reported fiscal 1998 revenues of $1.5 billion.

Statistics:

  • 600MHz Pentium III processors provide increased performance for business-critical needs.
  • AV 2700R server can be used in high-density configurations with up to 12 dual-processor systems in a 73-inch rackmount cabinet.
  • AV 2700R offers scalability, high availability, and pre-configured, pre-tested rackmounted AViiON "in-a-Box" packages.
  • AViiON AV 2300 server provides faster processing power and increased performance without incurring increased costs for the user.
  • Fiscal 1998 revenues for Data General Corporation were $1.5 billion.

Sources:

  • Data General Corporation press release, "Data General Announces Availability of AV 2300 and AV 2700R Departmental Servers with Intel's Powerful 600MHz Pentium III Processors" (Aug. 2, 1999)
  • Business Wire, "Data General Announces Availability of AV 2300 and AV 2700R Departmental Servers with Intel's Powerful 600MHz Pentium III Processors" (Aug. 2, 1999)

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