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RESELLERS MAY BUNDLE FC5000 WITH FLEXIBILITY TO UPGRADE TO EXTERNAL RAID.
CLARIION DEVELOPED AND RELEASED a server interface kit for its fully redundant Clariion FC5000 Fibre Channel disk array that lets VARs attach the disk array to servers from Sun Microsystems Inc.
The kit, offered by this Southboro, Mass.-based division of Data General Corp., Westboro, Mass., delivers equivalent performance and functionality as the proprietary product offered by Mountain View, Calif.-based Sun, the Sun Enterprise Network Array A5000, while offering the flexibility to upgrade to hardwarebased RAID protection at a later date, Clariion officials said.
"A reseller can take our disk array, and it runs exactly like the Sun product does; and then in the future the reseller can decide that his customer needs an external RAID...