ADIC and Pathlight Unveil Technology Directions at Storage Networking World; Company Demonstrations Include Serverless Backup, SAN Security, Video Streaming.Business Editors/Technology Writers REDMOND, Wash. & ITHACA Ithaca, city, United States Ithaca (ĭth`əkə), city (1990 pop. 29,541), seat of Tompkins co., S central N.Y., at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, in the Finger Lakes region; settled 1789, inc. as a city 1888. , N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2001 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) and Pathlight Technology announced today they will demonstrate SAN solutions that integrate the two companies' storage technologies at the Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. conference in Palm Desert, California Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs. The population was 41,155 at the 2000 census. April 9 - 11. The joint demonstrations combine connectivity, capacity, and management functions and are the first to be shown publicly by the two companies since the disclosure of their merger plans in February. "The goal of our joint work is to create a broad range of storage systems which will integrate any-to-any connectivity and very high levels of management into heterogeneous SANs," commented Bill Britts, ADIC executive vice president of Global Sales and Marketing. "We will make it easier for IT departments to manage their growing data demands by giving them intelligent storage systems with resource-efficient management products that integrate seamlessly into centralized storage resource management tools and third-party applications." "It is exciting to see the synergy coming from the combination of two innovative technology sets," said Said Rahmani, Pathlight executive vice president. "ADIC offers the industry's broadest selection of automated storage libraries and specialized storage management software for data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. . Pathlight brings high performance connectivity products and intelligent software capabilities that provide industry-leading levels of SAN resource management. Together, we are creating new solutions that can store hundreds of terabytes, integrate multiple storage networking protocols, support heterogeneous hosts, power server-free backup, and provide enterprise class security." In the SNW SNW Snow SNW Strange New Worlds (Star Trek) SNW Social Networking Website SNW Sub Networks SNW Storage Networking World Interoperability Labs and in the ADIC Galleria exhibit, the companies will be demonstrating SAN-enabled Scalar tape libraries that include LTO (Linear Tape Open) A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Quantum (formerly the Certance subsidiary of Seagate) that are licensed to third-party vendors. LTO cartridges contain a memory that stores historical usage data. and SuperDLT storage technology, 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. agents, and integrated SAN management and access security capability. The solutions are designed to offer end users flexibility for deploying and managing heterogeneous storage networks that include both legacy and new technologies. Pathlight connectivity products can also be found as an integral part of McData's debut demonstration of its new FC-521 Fabricenter--a turnkey solution that combines Pathlight, McData, and 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. technology for a complete server-free backup solution in a single plug-and-play cabinet design. Pathlight high performance connectivity products will also be featured in the booths of Computer Associates and Veritas Software as key components of those companies' server-free backup demonstrations. ADIC's CentraVision CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. SAN file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. system for rich content streaming applications will be the focus in ADIC's Platinum Partner exhibit and in the High Volume Applications section of the Interoperability Lab. In combination with storage systems from XioTech and LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, CentraVision will provide streaming video to multiple servers at both Internet and full broadcast resolution levels from centrally stored files. About Pathlight Technology Pathlight Technology, Inc. has been pioneering the technologies that enable the sharing of critical storage resources since 1994. Today Pathlight is the leading provider of complete Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions to OEMs and systems integrators for use in storage enterprises of all sizes. Global market leaders rely on Pathlight SAN products to deliver broad-based fundamental SAN functionality to their customers. Further information about Pathlight Technology, Inc. is available at www.Pathlight.com. About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading device-independent storage solutions provider to the open systems marketplace offering a broad range of products designed to enhance organizations' abilities to store, protect, manage and use their rapidly growing network data. ADIC solutions include automated storage libraries, storage management software, and storage networking (SAN/NAS) connectivity tools. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . On January 30, the Company announced that it had entered into a merger agreement with storage networking pioneer Pathlight Technology, Inc. for total consideration of 10.3 million ADIC shares. The merger is expected to close in early May. The merged companies will offer a broad range of Intelligent Storage(TM) products including SAN management, connectivity and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. products that complement ADIC's existing storage hardware and software solutions. Further information about ADIC is available at http://www.adic.com ADIC is a registered trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. 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