Data General first to guarantee 99.9% uptime for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0

Data General Corporation announced recently that it is the first vendor in the industry to offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. Under its OMNiiCARE program, the company extended its already available 99.9% guaranteed uptime for Microsoft Windows NT Server running on AViiON servers to include Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.

``Based on our experience building TeraCLIN, a multi-terabyte data warehouse, we believe that Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 provides the performance and scalability to support true enterprise applications on Microsoft Windows NT. Therefore, uptime is going to be critical to customers," said David Flawn, vice president, of NT Marketing at Data General.

``We are leveraging our expertise in the design, implementation, and deployment of mission-critical applications to provide 99,9% uptime guarantee not only for AViiON servers and the Microsoft Windows NT operating system, but also for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. We are also ready to deliver a portfolio of services, support and training to help customers take Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 - based applications to the next level in the enterprise. Furthermore, we are also looking out for our customers` budgets -- many of our services are provided on a fixed-price basis."

Through the OMNiiCARE program, Data General offers a 99,9% uptime guarantee for Windows NT and SQL Server 7.0. This guarantee is available to users of Data General`s departmental and enterprise AViiON servers, including the dual and quad processor AV 3650 and AV 3700 servers and high end, AV 8600 and AV 8700 servers, running Microsoft SQL Server, Enterprise Edition 7.0 in a two-node cluster environment.