ADIC Introduces Fibre Channel Routers for Serverless Backup; Open SAN Backup Adds Support for Next-Generation SAN Applications.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) announced today that it has added new Fibre Channel routers to its suite of Open SAN Backup Solution products, making that package the first in the industry to build in support for direct disk-to-tape, serverless backup A type of LAN free backup that does not use any of the resources of an application server or a backup server. See LAN free backup. within Storage Area Networks (SANs). ADIC's new FCR FCR feed conversion rate. 250 Fibre Channel router incorporates active agents with embedded Extended Copy commands, which will allow it to manage the transfer of data directly between disk and tape without having to move data through servers. By separating backup from server operations, the new capability is expected to increase usable network bandwidth by removing CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. bottlenecks and to free server and network resources for other critical IT tasks. SANs incorporating the new FCR 250 will be able to implement serverless backup as soon as software applications support the utility, an advance expected early this year. &uot;Serverless backup is the next great SAN application,&uot; explains Jonathan Otis, ADIC vice president of Product Management. &uot;It will be one more step toward making networks storage-centric and data-centric rather than server-centric, and it will provide vastly more efficient use of storage resources throughout the enterprise. We expect that backup applications will be the first to take advantage of this new SAN capability, but the same agents will also be able to support serverless data transfer operations under other storage management applications as well. Serverless data transfer will allow high-volume data traffic to use the full SAN bandwidth while servers continue their support of normal client and network functions.&uot; The FCR 250 offers one Fibre Channel connection and two SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. channels. It can carry SCSI over Fibre in point-to-point, arbitrated-loop, or switched-fabric SAN configurations, and it allows SCSI storage devices to be incorporated into Fibre Channel storage systems either as sources or targets. The new model, which includes support for serverless data transfer initiation, is available either integrated into ADIC FibreReady tape libraries and as a separate network component. Tape libraries equipped with integrated FCR 250 agents will be capable of acting as self-initiating backup devices. &uot;The addition of the FCR 250 demonstrates vividly the advantages of our open-systems approach to SAN backup solutions,&uot; commented Bill Britts, ADIC executive vice president of Sales and Marketing. &uot;We are making this exciting new technology available now to all of our Open SAN customers, ensuring that they will be building SAN infrastructure today that will let them easily incorporate serverless transfer operations as soon as they are supported by software applications. The fact that the FCR 250 agents support the Extended Copy protocol being endorsed by the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) helps ensure that today's SANs will be compatible with the next generation of SAN applications.&uot; Leading backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. providers are committed to providing applications for the serverless backup functionality embedded in the FCR 250. &uot;Computer Associates is driving the future of Storage Area Networking with advanced management and data movement technologies as part of our industry recognized SANITI initiative,&uot; said Peter Malcolm, CA senior vice president of Storage Management Strategy. &uot;We applaud ADIC for its leadership in ensuring that the SAN infrastructure and support will be available to allow full exploitation of these critical new SAN applications.&uot; &uot;Serverless backup, fully supported by Legato's Celestra initiative, will revolutionize the way that IT departments protect their enterprise data, eliminating backup window restrictions and freeing network bandwidth,&uot; noted George Simons, Legato vice president of Product Management. &uot;ADIC has made an important advance for the industry by adding Celestra serverless backup capability to its Open SAN Backup solutions.&uot; &uot;VERITAS Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. has demonstrated its leadership in the SAN market with the Shared Storage Options for VERITAS NetBackup and VERITAS Backup Exec Backup Exec is backup software for Microsoft Windows environments currently developed by Symantec. Backup Exec has a long history of being sold from one company to another. , which allow installations to virtualize To cause a virtual technique to be performed. See virtualization. their tape hardware resources,&uot; said John Maxwell John Maxwell may refer to:
The FCR 250 is available now with MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) beginning at $8,995; a three-year warranty is standard. About Open SAN Backup Solutions ADIC's Open SAN Backup Solutions combine open-system storage networking products from leading open-system providers, including Ancor, Computer Associates, Crossroads Systems, Emulex, Finisar, JNI (Java Native Interface) A programming interface (API) in Sun's Java Virtual Machine used for calling native platform elements such as GUI routines. RNI (Raw Native Interface) is the JNI counterpart in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine. JNI - Java Native Interface , Legato, and VERITAS, with professional services and integrated support to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end hardware and software SAN backup solution. The use of open-system products ensures that the solutions used today can become building blocks for the next generation of SAN applications. ADIC's professional services group supplies planning and installation activities, while the ADIC Technical Assistance Center and SAN Systems Lab provide single-call help desk and on-site support. About ADIC With more than 50,000 automated tape libraries installed and a suite of innovative software solutions and Storage Area Networking (SAN) products, ADIC is a leading global provider in the growing market to manage and protect information for computer networks. Marketed under ADIC and ADIC/GRAU brands and the brands of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, including Dell, Exabyte and Unisys, automated tape libraries are available with DLTtape, AIT, D2, half-inch, and 4mm tape technologies, and are supported by leading backup and storage management software products for Windows NT, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and mainframe operating systems. The Company's own storage management tools include AMASS (Archive Management And Storage System) Tape management software for Unix from Quantum Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO (www.quantum.com). Originally developed by ADIC, AMASS makes the tape library look like an infinite disk drive to the application. (R), FileServ and CentraVision, software products which provide users with shared access to network data. A pioneer in Storage Area Networks, ADIC's Open SAN solutions combine open-system SAN hardware and software with installation services and single-call support. Further ADIC information is available at www.adic.com. ADIC, AMASS, FileServ, and CentraVision are trademarks of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other service and trademarks mentioned in this release are the property of their respective owners. |
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