ADVISORY/Akara to Discuss Storage Extension Performance and Cost For DWDM, SONET And IP At Storage Networking World Spring 2003.News Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY... for Thursday (April 17) 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. Spring 2003 PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2003 Storage Over SONET Leader Will Head "Solutions For Securing And Protecting Your Data" Demonstrations at Interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and Solutions Demo Lab
Who: Akara Corporation
What: In a presentation titled, "Weighing storage options - a
performance and cost analysis of DWDM, SONET and IP for
storage extension," Matthew Williams of Akara Corporation will
describe the unique requirements for extending storage over
distance and explore the technologies that support storage
extension, including IP, DWDM and SONET. He will also discuss
how each option is capable of addressing the stringent QoS
requirements of the most advanced business continuance
applications, including disk mirroring, tape/disk backup, and
geo-clustering. In addition to performance metrics, Williams
will describe the operational and capital costs associated
with each storage extension technology.
As a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA),
Akara has also collaborated with several other major industry
vendors to lead, "Solutions for Securing and Protecting Your
Data" at the 2003 Spring Storage Networking World's
Interoperability and Solutions Demo (SNW ISD). This lab will
present end-to-end business continuance and disaster recovery
solutions tailored to enterprise requirements and feature
equipment from leading storage vendors, such as Akara,
Brocade, Cisco, Decru, EMC, HDS, HP, Legato, McData, Nortel,
Sun, and Veritas. Akara will demonstrate multiple applications
including disk mirroring, data encryption, data replication
and remote tape backup over technologies including Storage
over SONET, storage over DWDM and storage over IP.
"The SNIA and its dedicated membership continue to meet end user
business and technology needs by testing and demonstrating
production-ready multi-vendor storage networking solutions,"
said Wayne Adams, SNW Governing Board member, SNIA. "Twice a
year, the Interoperability and Solutions Demo at SNW features
new and proven technological developments that advance the
world of trusted storage networking solutions. Akara's
contributions and collaborative efforts to the 'Solutions for
Securing and Protecting Your Data' have helped make this
year's demo one of the most innovative yet."
Where: JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort, Phoenix, Arizona
When: Storage Networking World will be held from April 14-17,
2003. Akara will speak from 8:30 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. on
Thursday, April 17, 2003. Akara's demonstration will take
place at the Interoperability and Solutions Demo Lab during
lab hours.
About Akara Akara, the Storage over SONET market leader, is the only equipment supplier with a singular 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 Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. . Visit Akara online at www.akara.com. About the 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 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) is a not-for-profit organization, made up of over 300 companies and individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal: to set the pace of the industry by ensuring that storage networks become efficient, complete, and trusted solutions across the IT community. To this end the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For information visit the SNIA web site at http://www.snia.org. |
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