ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 18, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- A group of leading storage industry technology providers announced today they will jointly present the industry's first fully interoperable multi-vendor 4 Gb SAN in a live demonstration at next week's Storage Networking World Fall 2004 Conference in Orlando, Fla. In addition to demonstrating interoperable 4 Gb products and capabilities, the demonstration will also integrate 2 Gb components to underscore seamless backward compatibility with existing SAN infrastructure. Conference attendees are invited to view the demonstration at the multi-vendor kiosk (#PG21) located in the main lobby outside of the exhibition hall.
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"With the impending transition to 4 Gb Fibre Channel in switches, HBAs and storage devices, IT managers need assurance that new products from different suppliers will interoperate. They also need to know that products will be backward-compatible with installed products," said Richard Villars, Vice President of Storage Systems research at IDC. "Technology demonstrations like this will help companies effectively plan for this transition so that they can take advantage of the performance and price benefits of 4 Gb Fibre Channel technology."
The demonstration of SAN performance and functionality uses multiple vendor equipment at 2 Gb and the new double data rate, 4 Gb. It includes 3 servers feeding data to the SAN through 4 Gb HBAs provided by Emulex and QLogic and a 4 Gb Fibre Channel adapter from Agilent Technologies. Fabric switches provided by QLogic concurrently run both speed links to the storage targets. Multiple Xyratex storage enclosures are equipped with Seagate drives and feature a switched back-end architecture created with Emulex embedded storage switches. Additional technologies for the demonstration were supplied by Finisar, Intel(r) Corporation and JDS Uniphase. A technical brief providing full details on the multi-vendor SAN demonstration configuration and technology benefits will be available at the demonstration site.
Agilent 4 Gb Fibre Channel Solutions (NYSE:A)
Agilent Technologies is a leading supplier of 4 Gb Fibre Channel component, board and test solutions. No other vendor offers protocol, physical layer and fiber-optic components combined with leading-edge signal and protocol testing. More than half of all storage-networked arrays use Agilent components. More information is available at www.agilent.com/view/storage.
About Emulex (NYSE:ELX)
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex ranked number 16 in the Deloitte 2004 Technology Fast 50.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
Powered by QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC)
Since 1993, over 50 million QLogic products have shipped inside servers, workstations, RAID subsystems, tape libraries, disk and tape drives. These products were delivered to small, medium and large enterprises around the world. Powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems, the broad line of QLogic controller chips, host bus adapters, network switches and management software move data from storage devices through the network fabric to servers. A member of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100, QLogic was named to the following during fiscal year 2004: (i) Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list for the fourth consecutive year; (ii) Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies for the fifth consecutive year; and (iii) Business Week's list of 100 Hot Growth Companies. For more information visit www.qlogic.com.
About Seagate (NYSE:STX)
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile, and Consumer Electronics applications. The company is committed to delivering award-winning products, customer support and reliability, to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.
About Xyratex (Nasdaq:XRTX)
Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise data storage subsystems and network technology. The company designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides OEM and disk drive manufacturer customers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. Xyratex has over 20 years of experience in research and development relating to disk drives, storage systems and high-speed communication protocols.
Founded in 1994 in an MBO from IBM, and with headquarters in the UK, Xyratex has an established global base with R&D and operational facilities in Europe, the United States and South East Asia.
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