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EMC Signs OEM Agreement with Unisys for ModARRAY Storage Systems

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EMC Corporation has entered into a significant OEM agreement with Unisys, marking a strategic partnership to deliver high-performance RAID storage systems to the market. The ModARRAY Series, developed by EMC's Open Storage Group, addresses the needs of computer system manufacturers and integrators by providing a proven technology with rapid time-to-market capabilities. Unisys will offer the ModARRAY Series as the OSS8000 Series for its U6000 family of UNIX platforms, catering to the storage requirements of its diverse customer base.

Key Takeaways:

  • The OEM agreement between EMC and Unisys enables the delivery of the ModARRAY Series, a family of continuously available RAID storage systems, to the open systems market.
  • The ModARRAY Series provides "pay-as-you-grow" capacity, performance, connectivity, continuous availability, and serviceability for business-critical departmental and distributed computing applications.
  • Unisys plans to offer the ModARRAY Series as the OSS8000 Series for its U6000 family of UNIX platforms, meeting the diverse storage requirements of its customers.
  • The ModARRAY Series features modular, upgradeable designs in configurations ranging from 4 GB to 206 GB, with options for additional fault-tolerant features.
  • The system allows for hot replacement of units, minimizing user interruptions and providing a customer-maintainable design.
  • The host system user interface enables the setting of concurrent RAID levels 0, 1, 3, and 5 to match application requirements.
  • EMC's OEM operation is expected to generate more than $100 million in 1994 revenue, providing customers with industry-leading storage technology and custom design, manufacturing efficiencies, sales, and support programs.

Statistics:

  • The ModARRAY Series is available in configurations ranging from 4 GB to 206 GB.
  • Unisys will offer the ModARRAY Series as the OSS8000 Series for its U6000 family of UNIX platforms.
  • EMC's OEM operation is expected to generate more than $100 million in 1994 revenue.
  • The ModARRAY Series features modular, upgradeable designs.
  • The system allows for hot replacement of units.

Sources:

  • "EMC Signs OEM Agreement with Unisys for ModARRAY Storage Systems." Press release, EMC Corporation, 20 October 1994.
  • "ModARRAY Series: Product Overview." EMC Corporation.
  • "OEM Operations: Revenue and Growth." EMC Corporation Annual Report, 1994.

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