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===CLARiiON===
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An important element in all enterprise computer systems is high speed storage. At the time AViiON came to market, commodity [[hard disk drive]]s could not offer the sort of performance needed for data center use. DG attacked this problem in the same fashion as the processor issue, by running a large number of drives in parallel. The overall performance was greatly improved and the resulting innovation was marketed originally as the HADA (High Availability Disk Array) and then later as the [[Clariion|CLARiiON]] line. The CLARiiON arrays, which offered [[SCSI]] [[RAID]] in various capacities, offered a great price/performance and platform flexibility over competing solutions.

The CLARiiON line was marketed not only to AViiON and Data General MV series customers, but also to customers running servers from other vendors such as [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Hewlett-Packard]] and [[Silicon Graphics]]. Data General also embarked on a plan to hire storage sales specialists and to challenge the [[EMC Symmetrix]] in the wider market.