Emc Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Data General Corporation

Ralph C Frangioso, Jr

Robert P Wierzbicki

Mickey Steven Felton

Joseph P King

Albert F Beinor, Jr

Stephen Edward Strickland

Steven D Sardella

W Brian Cunningham

Keith Clifford Johnson

Michael Sean Gregoire

Thomas J Connor

John Blondin

Justin Potok Bandholz

Jeffrey Alan Brown

Robert W Beauchamp

Sean P O'Donnell

C Ilhan Gundogan

Douglas E Peeke

Bernard Warnakulasooriya

David Boudreau

David C Bisbee

Jiabing Li

Jason J Leone

Timothy J Sullivan

Michael L Schillinger

Paul H Maier, Jr

James Marriott Guyer

Steven R Cieluch

Stephen William Daniel

Michael John Kozel

Maida Boudreau

Matthew J Borsini

Brandon Barney

Lawrence L Krantz

Darrin Haug

Gordon A Frye

Paul Rebello

Joseph M Dunbar

Mark A DesMarais

Cynthia J Burns

Albert T Andrade

Eddy M Paul

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus comprising a zip-locker receiver. The zip-locker receiver is configured to ratchetably receive a zip-locker and comprises an aperture and a pawl disposed within the aperture configured to complement and cooperate with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker to prevent removal of the zip-locker from the aperture of the zip-locker receiver at times the pawl of the zip-locker receiver is engaged with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker.

Zip-locker receiver apparatus

An electronic equipment chassis in one embodiment comprises a housing having a front portion and a rear portion, at least one row of dual in-line memory modules disposed at one of an upper level and a lower level of the front portion, and a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion adjacent the at least one row of dual in-line memory modules. At least a subset of the dual in-line memory modules and the storage devices are configured so as to be removable from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing.

Electronic equipment chassis having storage devices and other modules configured for front-access removability

A rack unit for providing a server to be mounted within a storage rack is provided. The rack unit includes a set of low-profile drawer slides configured for mounting the rack unit within the storage rack, the set of low-profile drawer slides configured for mounting upon rails; wherein, the chassis includes at least one wide section for housing computer components. A server and a storage rack are described.

3U 'T' shaped chassis design with rail features

A system board includes at least one microprocessor coupled to the system board. A VR module card includes a voltage regulator circuit, wherein the voltage regulator circuit is configured to provide electrical power to the at least one microprocessor. A circuit board region is configured to receive the VR module card.

Configurable system board

An electronic equipment chassis in one embodiment comprises a housing having a front portion and a rear portion, first and second rows of cooling modules disposed at respective upper and lower levels of the front portion, and a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion between the first and second rows of cooling modules. At least a subset of the cooling modules and the storage devices are configured so as to be removable from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing.

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a system comprising a zip-locker and a zip-locker receiver. The zip-locker comprises a first portion and a second portion configured to fasten to an interconnect, at least one of the first portion and the second portion having ratchet teeth formed and extending longitudinally on an outer surface thereof. The zip-locker receiver is configured to ratchetably receive the zip-locker and comprises an aperture and a pawl disposed within the aperture configured to complement and cooperate with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker to prevent removal of the zip-locker from the aperture of the zip-locker receiver at times the pawl of the zip-locker receiver is engaged with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker.

Zip-locker system and apparatus

A computing system includes a low-profile chassis a motherboard disposed therein and at least one full-size circuit board coupled to the motherboard within the chassis. A method and another computing system are disclosed.

Universal mezzanine connector

A system board includes at least one microprocessor coupled to the system board. A first circuit board region is populated with a first model voltage regulator circuit. The first model voltage regulator circuit is configured to provide electrical power to the at least one microprocessor. A second circuit board region is unpopulated and configured to receive a second model voltage regulator circuit.

An IT device includes a system board, a drive controller system, a mid-plane assembly, a bridge connector assembly configured to releasably couple the system board and the drive controller system, and a second connector assembly configured to releasably couple the drive controller system and the mid-plane assembly.

Field-serviceable IT device

A mid-plane assembly for use in an IT device includes a circuit board having a first surface and a second surface. At least one drive connector is positioned on the first surface of the circuit board. At least one board connector is positioned on the second surface of the circuit board and at least partially behind the at least one drive connector positioned on the first surface.

Mid-plane assembly

An IT device includes a system board including at least one microprocessor. At least one 2.5&#x2033; disk drive is electrically coupled to the system board. At least one 3.5&#x2033; disk drive is electrically coupled to the system board. An enclosure is configured to house the system board and includes at least one native 2.5&#x2033; drive bay configured to house the at least one 2.5&#x2033; disk drive, and at least one native 3.5&#x2033; drive bay configured to house the at least one 3.5&#x2033; disk drive.

IT device

An IT chassis, configured to house IT componentry, includes a forward portion having a forward portion width and a rearward portion having a rearward portion width that is narrower than the forward portion width. A first side of the rearward portion is configured to engage a first slide assembly having a first slide width. A second side of the rearward portion is configured to engage a second slide assembly having a second slide width. The sum of the rearward portion width, the first slide width and the second slide width is substantially equal to the forward portion width.

Rack-mountable IT device

A storage network includes at least one storage processor. At least one switch is coupled to the at least one storage processor. At least one nontransparent bridge is coupled to the at least one switch. The at least one nontransparent bridge includes at least one addressable endpoint. At least one storage device is coupled to the nontransparent bridge. At least one baseboard management controller is coupled to the at least one addressable endpoint.

BMC-based communication system

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, on a baseboard management controller coupled to an addressable endpoint of a non-transparent bridge included within a storage network, a plurality of condition messages concerning one or more components of the storage network. The plurality of condition messages are filtered into critical condition messages and noncritical condition messages.

Disclosed are ways of providing a highly flexible high availability storage system. Disk drive carriers for insertion into enclosures in a storage system include several disk drives. The enclosures accept carriers that include drives of different sizes, and drives compatible with different storage technologies, for instance Fibre Channel, SATA, or SAS. Drives oriented in their carriers in a manner that allows them to be connected to a common medium via identical flex circuits that are configured based on the orientation of the drives. Redundant controllers include redundant serial buses for transferring management information to the carriers. The carriers include a controller for monitoring the multiple serial buses and producing storage technology specific management commands for the disk drives.

Growing community of inventors

Franklin, MA, United States of America

Ralph C Frangioso, Jr