Akara's OUSP Qualified by EMC as E-Lab Tested.Business Editors & Technology Writers 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. Fall 2002 OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2002 Enables enterprises, carriers and service providers to deploy seamless EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. and Akara offerings for secure, reliable and cost-effective storage extension Akara, the leader in Storage over SONET extension solutions, announced today that Akara's Storage over SONET products have been qualified by EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EMC), the world leader in information storage, as E-Lab Tested. Enterprises using EMC business continuity software now have immediate access to an alternative remote MAN/WAN connectivity capability for storage solutions that provides unmatched application performance and significant cost savings. Akara's OUSP OUSP Optical Utility Services Platform (TM) (Optical Utility Services Platform) was qualified with EMC's Symmetrix(R) and CLARiiON(R) Enterprise Storage systems and EMC's SRDF SRDF Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SRDF Symmetric Remote Data Facility (TM) (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility) and MirrorView(TM) remote mirroring software. EMC's E-Lab Tested qualification process is a series of exhaustive functionality and reliability tests to ensure the interoperability of the components that make up a multi-vendor information storage network. "Leveraging existing infrastructure investments is vital to enable enterprises to extend their business continuance applications," said Nick Allen Nick Allen (born Artemus Ward Allen on September 14, 1888 in Norton, Kansas; died October 16, 1939 in Hines, Illinois) was a catcher in Major League Baseball. Teams
Chuck Hollis, EMC's Vice President of Markets and Products, said, "Enterprises recognize the need to invest in robust, secure storage architectures for business continuity and look to solutions that are not only cost-effective but give peace of mind that comes with the assurance of interoperability. EMC's latest qualification with Akara offers enterprises this assurance along with immediate access to remote MAN/WAN connectivity capability for storage solutions that delivers increased business continuity capabilities while protecting existing storage and network investments." The EMC-Akara solution supports Symmetrix and CLARiiON Enterprise Storage systems, SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility) over Fibre Channel and 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. , and MirrorView remote mirroring software over Fibre Channel connections. Akara's OUSP is a customer-premise device that enables enterprises to extend these business continuity applications over greater distances (MAN and/or WAN within the same device) by connecting to existing SONET, 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 or dark fiber networks. The combined offering provides enterprises immediate access to a secure, low-cost, high performance solution for replicating their data center to one or more remote sites, making business critical data available for immediate recovery from unforeseen disasters and planned or unplanned outages. "Akara's OUSP qualification is an important step toward bringing a combined EMC/Akara low-cost, high performance and secure storage extension offering to our customers, partners, distributors, and resellers," said Ed Ogonek, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Akara. "This qualification validates our Storage over SONET solution and our ongoing commitment to interoperability with leaders in the storage industry." Akara provides a storage over SONET platform, enabling enterprises to leverage existing carrier networks for reliable, lowest cost/MByte storage extension. Akara's OUSP multiplexes data center protocols such as Fibre Channel, 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. , ESCON and GbE directly into flexible SONET payloads to extend enterprises' business continuance applications over existing SONET/SDH, dark fiber or DWDM networks. The OUSP is "enterprise-ready" with DS3, OC-3, OC-12 and OC-48 connectivity, enabling the majority of enterprises to easily connect their storage networks to carriers' ubiquitous SONET services for secure, high-performance, cost-effective extended storage networking. About Akara Akara, the Storage over SONET market leader, is the only equipment supplier with a singular focus on extending business continuance 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 networks, and ensures the performance of Fibre Channel, ESCON, FICON 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 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. EMC, Symmetrix and CLARiiON are registered trademarks and SRDF, MirrorView and E-Lab Tested are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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