CLARiiON AND TECH DATA CORPORATION ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP OFFERING
RAID SOLUTION TO NT ENVIRONMENTS

WILL RESELL SERIES 100 MODEL C150 DISK ARRAYS WITH MIRRORED WRITE CACHE
MEMORY

SOUTHBORO, Mass., April 9, 1996 -- The CLARiiON Business Unit of Data
General Corporation, the leader in RAID disk array storage solutions, and
Tech Data Corporation today announced that Tech Data will distribute and
support the CLARiiON Series 100, Model C150 disk arrays.

"Our high-performance disk arrays are a powerful yet economical solution
for PC-level client/server environments," said Larry Hemmerich, vice
president and general manager of the CLARiiON Business Unit. According to
IDC analysts, the worldwide market for NT servers in 1995 was $955 million
and expected to grow to $1.58 billion in 1996. "With the explosion of NT
in the marketplace, the agreement with Tech Data to become a strategic
partner will benefit both companies by combining CLARiiON award winning
storage subsystems with Tech Data's 50,000 VARs and retailers throughout
the United States, Canada and Latin America."

The CLARiiON Series 100, Model C150 disk array offers an economical storage
solution for low-end UNIX and PC servers in demanding environments
requiring high availability and high performance. Available in both
deskside and rackmount configurations, the Model C150 has the capacity for
growth up to 28 GB of disk space and has a range of 8 MB to 32 MB of write
cache memory, using commodity PCMCIA technology commonly found in laptop
computers. The new CLARiiON C150 mirrored cache memory board contains 2 MB
of RAM and a battery that maintains continuous power for 13 months.
CLARiiON is one of few vendors that provide this type of protection.

"BY OFFERING THE CLARIION SERIES 100 DISK ARRAYS TO OUR CUSTOMERS, TECH
DATA CAN NOW PROVIDE A COMPLETE YET SCALABLE STORAGE SOLUTION FOR THE MOST
DEMANDING NT ENVIRONMENTS," said Dale Ott, Director of Mass Storage
Product Marketing at Tech Data Corporation.

Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD) is a leading distributor of personal
computer products serving more than 50,000 value-added resellers and
retail dealers throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the
Caribbean. A Fortune 500 Company, Tech Data offers comprehensive product
lines in software, networking and communications, mass storage,
peripherals and computer systems. In addition to distributing more than
25,000 products from over 600 manufacturers and publishers, Tech Data
provides extensive pre-sale and post-sale training, service and support.

The CLARiiON Business Unit is a part of Data General Corporation (NYSE:
DGN). CLARiiON leading disk array technology has been protecting customer
data and information for more than four years. Data General, with
headquarters in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage
systems and related software and services. The company reported revenues
of $1.2 billion in fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its
products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com or
http://www.clariion.com .
 
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