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Presents: Very high performance, fault-tolerant, OPEN, SCSI standards-based, enterprise-wide storage systems.


Corporate Overview

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Storage Computer Corporation("SCC" or "StorComp") designs, manufactures and sells standards-based, high performance, fault tolerant storage solutions critical to success in client/server, on-line transaction processing (OLTP), large database, multimedia, video-on-demand and high volume imaging applications. SCC markets products based on its patented RAID 7 technology. This technology incorporates several proprietary architectural features, such as an asynchronous hardware design and a real-time embedded operating system, that permit storage systems which offer speed and fault tolerance at a competitive price/performance ratio compared to others available on the market.

More than 500 customers worldwide use SCC's RAID 7 technology to increase productivity and extend the life of their existing computer investment. RAID 7 systems provide from one to many hundreds of gigabytes of storage and attach to network file servers, and midrange and mainframe systems supporting the SCSI industry standard interface. RAID 7 systems work with host platforms sold by vendors such as IBM, Digital, NCR, UNISYS, Sun, HP, SGI, Sequent, ICL, and others whose products support the industry standard SCSI interface. Worldwide distribution and services are provided via a comprehensive network of subsidiaries, joint ventures, resellers, integrators and service providers in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe.

Storage Computer Corporation also provides leading edge storage products originally developed by the Vermont Research Corporation, including solid state disks and caching subsystems for mainframe, midrange and UNIX based workstations and servers. During its first 25 years, VRC manufactured and sold rotating drum memories, some of which are still in use today. Over the past 10 years the VRC product line has expanded to include high performance solid state disks.

In 1994, VRC introduced a Stealth Cache subsystem, which was the industry's first 5.25-inch SCSI caching system to deliver 800% faster read/write response times than a standard SCSI disk. VRC's Stealth Cache product family consists of four models that provide up to 256 megabytes of cache memory in 5.25 inch, desktop, tabletop and pedestal configurations. List pricing begins under $10,000 for a 16 megabyte caching configuration.

SCC has developed and put into production what it believes is a breakthrough RAID storage system technology, RAID 7, which together with the VRC family of high performance storage device level products, Stealth Cache and K2 SSD, are expected to position Storage Computer Corporation to capitalize not only on storage subsystem paradigm changes, but also on the convergence of other significant computer market changes.

Storage Computer expects to combine SCC's RAID 7 subsystem product and the VRC device level SSD and Stealth Cache products to form new classes of high end storage subsystems to meet a wider variety of storage needs. These products have not yet been announced and the timing of their market introduction is uncertain. However, as these products will essentially be special configurations of existing products, it is expected that they will be introduced at various dates during 1995. Following are brief descriptions of existing and proposed products.

Current Products

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The RAID 7 product family has been sold to customers in a broad range of industries including banking, financial services, transportation, distribution, electric power utilities, universities, legal services, telecommunications, government, engineering, oil exploration, manufacturing and printing.

The VRC K2 line has been sold primarily to customers in the telecommunications, process control, and the defense market.

RAID 7

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RAID 7 is a Real-time Intelligent Storage Server Architecture. The technology combines high end intelligent controller technology, disk drives, a multi-level scaleable cache memory mechanism, and a real time operating system software environment to asynchronously implement RAID technology that is host application independent. This asynchronous storage system was designed to solve many of the performance and reliability problems present in other storage subsystems, and in second generation parallel RAID 3 and 5. RAID 7 currently supports up to 12 independent and concurrent hosts and up to a single group size of 48 disk drives of any available capacity. The RAID 7 architecture is scaleable to multi-terabyte capacities, as well as for higher performance implementations. The RAID 7 technology is subject to certain patents held by SCC and patent applications filed by SCC. Storage Computer markets desktop, integrated rack mount, and modular console logic models of RAID 7. The RAID 7 technology will also serve as a basis for newer classes of storage products that the SCC intends to develop and market.

K2

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K2 is a solid-state SCSI disk packaged in a standard 19 inch rack mount form factor and currently supports capacities from 64 MB to 1 GB, using 4 MB DRAM. Utilizing 16 MB or 64 MB technology, this product is designed to be scaled to support up to 4 GB or 16 GB respectively. The K2 includes a full non-volatile data retention system with a battery and hard media backup to insure data integrity in the event of a power failure. Storage Computer intends to continue to develop and market the K2 for applications requiring high I/O bandwidth on random data.

Stealth Cache

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Stealth Cache is a high performance 5.25 inch integrated cached disk which combines a large cache memory, high performance SCSI controllers, battery backup and a 3.5 inch disk in an industry standard 5.25 inch package. The Stealth Cache will deliver up to or over 1000 QI/Os (Queuing Input/Outputs) per second of data.

M/DISK

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M/Disk. Solid-State Disk Emulator. The M/Disk line of replacement products is sold to customers in test equipment, process control, utility, and telecommunications markets. Two models (the 8256 and K2 SMD) are used to address replacement of customers' aging disk and drum memory devices. Storage Computer's products replace these unreliable devices. All models are packaged in 19 inch rack mount form factors and include non-volatile data retention systems including battery and media backup. The 8256 supports 2 MB to 24 MB and replaces 14 inch cartridge disk drives and rotating drum memories. The K2 SMD version replaces SMD drives ranging in size from 32 MB to 330 MB.


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