Compaq bundles fibre channel storage with high availability clusters

Houston 05 Aug 99 Compaq Computer Corporation announced storage high-availability bundles designed to ease deployment of high availability Fibre Channel storage for ProLiant servers. These pre-packaged bundles are sized for workgroups, departments, and business-critical enterprise environments.

The combination of industry-leading Fibre Channel-based Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 and 8000 storage subsystems, Compaq ProLiant Cluster servers, and cluster software kits, coupled with comprehensive installation and maintenance services, plus a 90-day money-back guarantee on the Compaq hardware and software and the unused portion of the maintenance services leverages all the strengths of Compaq.(1) The bundles are available in the U.S. and Canada from Compaq and participating channel and reseller partners.

The bundled packages reduce complexity for customers interested in implementing Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN)-enabled solutions for the first time. They represent proof points for Compaq's Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA), Compaq's vision of the storage utility that defines an architecture for storage with unbounded performance, availability, and capacity for use throughout an enterprise. ENSA is a key part of the company's overall vision for NonStop(R) eBusiness computing.

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