CLARiiON AND SEQUENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS PARTNER TO OFFER CUSTOMERS OPEN
STORAGE SOLUTIONS

Southboro, MA., April 8, 1996--CLARiiON and Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
today announced that Sequent will OEM the CLARiiON line of RAID storage
products.

Under their agreement, Sequent will add CLARiiONR disk arrays to its
storage offerings on its line of high end SymmetryR 5000 servers. The
CLARiiON disk arrays allow Sequent to extend its high availability
protected data capacity into the multiple Terabyte range.

"CLARiiON has been partnering with Sequent to solve specific customer
storage requirements for the past year," said Larry Hemmerich, Vice
President of the CLARiiON Business Unit. "With the signing of this new
agreement, we will expand our relationship with Sequent and enable them to
offer a value-added, high availability open storage solution to all of
Sequent's customers. The business between Sequent and CLARiiON is robust,
with units already shipping."

"Our customers are demanding multiple terabytes of high availability,
secure data storage for their enterprise databases," said John McAdam,
President and Chief Operating Officer for Sequent. "We have spent the past
two years evaluating storage suppliers. The combination of the strong
partnering skills of CLARiiON and their advanced storage technology has
resulted in a strategic partnership, which will allow Sequent's customers
to continue to grow with the industry's largest open databases."

CLARiiON is the preferred provider of high-availability, advanced storage
solutions for open enterprise environments worldwide. CLARiiON has
experienced significant growth with the development of its sales channels,
including OEMs, VARs, private labelers, systems integrators and
distributors worldwide. Innovative CLARiiON storage products support a
variety of platforms, including Data General's AViiON systems, Silicon
Graphic's CHALLENGE&#153; servers, Sun SPARC systems, IBM RS/6000, Windows
NT systems, NCR and Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha servers. Over
the last several months, CLARiiON has joined forces with two of the
world's largest open systems companies to demonstrate data warehousing
showcases, in excess of 2.5 terabytes of storage; validating scalability
and high speed access to and from CLARiiON disk arrays.

Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNT) develops, manufactures, and
sells commercial symmetric multiprocessing systems that support very
large-scale on-line transaction processing (OLTP), decision support (DSS)
and internet-based applications. Through an extensive range of consulting
and professional service offerings, Sequent helps organizations
re-architect their existing information technology infrastructures. In
addition, Sequent partners closely with other open systems vendors to
deliver complete solutions to its customers. Sequent's World Wide Web
address is http://www.sequent.com. This news release and other information
are available from Sequent's news- on-demand fax service at 800-356-0834.

The CLARiiON Business Unit is part of Data General Corporation; an open
systems company that specializes in providing servers, storage systems and
services to information technology users worldwide. The company, with
headquarters in Westboro, Massachusetts, 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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