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November 30, 1998 |
Compaq India plans new projectCompaq India is finalising plans to kick-start its 'fibre distributed data interface' project by early next year.According to a senior executive from Compaq, the company is at an advanced stage of implementation of the project and it would take another couple of months to actually begin commercial production from next year.
While such a 'data area network', as it is commonly called, can connect areas which may be spread apart as far as a couple of kilometres, the main beneficiaries are expected to be those who require inter-connectivity between different remote storage places. Elaborating on the aspects of this project, Compaq executives asserted that the question of data management, which was crucial for IT requirements in big corporate firms, would also be addressed since that would determine to what extent the system could provide management of stored and real time. While continuing to support standard interconnect technologies, the company is working with additional node-to-node and node-to-storage interconnect technologies that would allow customers in India to place servers and/or storage devices some distance from each other. In a high-availability environment, such cluster configurations may be implemented with long cables in order to place the servers in separate rooms to protect against fire, or on separate floors of a building to protect against flood. "Through FDDI, campus clusters can be created which offer levels of availability since a computer outage caused by a disaster affecting one building can be recorded from by automatically transferring application resources to another node in the cluster."
- Compiled from the Indian media |
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