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Disk array, tape library will augment new line of multiprocessor systems
GATEWAY INC. this week plans to announce its first disk array, a low-end product that's part of a new strategy under which the PC vendor is trying to sell servers and storage devices for use in corporate data centers.
In addition to the disk subsystem, which can scale from 100GB to 2TB of capacity, Gateway is offering a tape library that can handle up to 1.6TB of data (see box). The disk and tape products join a four-processor server that the Poway, Calif.-based company introduced earlier this month and a dual-CPU system that it launched last week.
Gateway officials said that application servers and storage devices are now their top business priorities and that the company plans to round out its hardware offerings to corporate IT managers.
"We'll have enterprise-class [storage] products by the end of the year and more price/performance-oriented products...
