ADIC solutions support Cisco MDS 9000 Switch Family.

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), a supplier of Intelligent Storage solutions to the open system marketplace, announced recently its support for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Intelligent Storage Switches.

The new Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides support for multiple storage network protocols, offering technology that can help end-users expand the use of storage networking to a broader range of environments and more effectively combine physically distant storage resources into a unified system. All of ADIC's storage solutions--automated libraries, SAN appliances, and storage management software--are designed to provide managed storage for these environments.

"Cisco is committed to advancing the state of storage networking by developing innovative products for our customers that will enable storage networking consolidation, increasing the availability of data and giving IT organizations the tools to allow them to manage their storage resources more effectively," said Bill Erdman, director of Storage Technology Alliances at Cisco. "Working with companies such as ADIC, we are bringing a broad range of tangible gains to the IT community, including multi-protocol support, intelligent network services, intelligent storage services, and unified management. These are absolute requirements as we work to increase SAN functionality and allow the technology to solve the rapidly increased demand for storage that is facing every enterprise."

"Cisco is advancing storage networking as a whole, along with the new iSCSI and FCIP protocols that Cisco, ADIC, and other leading storage suppliers are turning into products for the storage market," said Paul Rutherford, ADIC Vice President, Technology. "These technologies have the potential to bring the flexibility and performance of SAN-based storage resource sharing all the way to the desktop in an architecture that combines the power of SAN and NAS. ADIC's StorNext Management Suite storage management software, our multi-protocol SAN appliances, and our Scalar intelligent storage networking libraries are all designed to take direct advantage of these new technologies."

ADIC and Cisco, along with other leading storage solutions suppliers, are cooperating on technology development, interoperability testing, solutions qualification, and marketing of the new storage networking technologies. Last year, ADIC worked with Cisco and Adaptec to demonstrate the industry's first file sharing application for iSCSI storage networks, using ADIC's StorNext Management Suite file system. ADIC will continue to drive these interoperability and solution testing programs with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family as well.