ADVISORY/ Akara Speaks on Cost-Effective Business Continuance Networks at IBM's Storage and Storage Networking Symposium.Business/Technology Editors ADVISORY...for Monday - Friday (August 26 - 30) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Akara:
Who: Paul Schoenau, Senior Network Architect at Akara
What: Schoenau will present "Storage Networking for Business
Continuance" at IBM's Storage and Storage Networking
Symposium. He will discuss how enterprises' requirements to
protect and maintain 24 x7 data availability is driving the
need to replicate business continuance applications between
geographically dispersed data centers. The storage and network
administrators in attendance will learn about the different
networking technologies available such as DWDM, Fiber, IP and
SONET, the associated capital and operational costs, as well
as application performance considerations such as latency and
security.
Akara will also showcase its data center multiplexer, which
enables enterprises to leverage existing carrier networks for
reliable, lowest cost/MByte storage extension. Akara will
demonstrate how its OUSP enables "Storage over SONET" by
multiplexing data center protocols such as Fibre Channel,
ESCON and GbE over SONET payloads and transporting them over
an extended fiber distance. Currently undergoing certification
testing in IBM's TotalStorage Proven(TM) program, the OUSP is
being tested in configurations with IBM's leading storage
products, such as the peer-to-peer remote copy (PPRC) and the
Fibre Array Storage Technology (FAStT) family of products. The
IBM TotalStorage Proven program certification process ensures
that applications and hardware from leading companies such as
Akara, combined with IBM state-of-the art technology, provide
customers with flexible, ready to run, easily installed
solutions that address their software and infrastructure
needs.
Where: Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah
When: August 26-30, 2002. Akara will present at 10:35 a.m. on
Wednesday, August 28. The Akara solution demonstration will
take place at Booth # 503.
About Akara Akara, the Storage over SONET market leader, is the only equipment supplier with a singular SINGULAR, construction. In grammar the singular is used to express only one, not plural. Johnson. 2. In law, the singular frequently includes the plural. focus on extending business continuance The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court to a later date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to a motion made by a party to a lawsuit. applications between data centers with the lowest MByte per mile cost across existing MAN/WAN networks. Akara's solutions significantly reduces operational and capital expense by leveraging the existing SONET/SDH, dark fiber or DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing networks, and ensures the performance of Fibre Channel, ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. , FICON (FIber CONnector) An IBM mainframe channel introduced with its G5 servers in 1998. Based on the Fibre Channel standard, it boosts the transfer rate of ESCON's half-duplex 17MB/sec to a full-duplex 100MB/sec. and Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. in geographically dispersed dis·perse v. dis·persed, dis·pers·ing, dis·pers·es v.tr. 1. a. To drive off or scatter in different directions: The police dispersed the crowd. b. business continuance applications. Akara has offices in Ottawa, Ontario and Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. . Visit Akara online at www.akara.com. |
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