Alacritech Announces Partnership with emBoot; Alacritech Accelerators Natively Support netBoot/i; Solution Enables Seamless Boot from IP SANs to Dramatically Simplify and Accelerate the Server Provisioning Process.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Alacritech(R), Inc., the innovator of Dynamic TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. Offload(TM) technology that enables scalable networked systems, today announced a partnership with emBoot Inc., a supplier of network boot products, to provide netBoot/i software to Alacritech customers. Alacritech Accelerators have been qualified, and natively support netBoot/i, to enable Windows(R)-based servers utilizing Alacritech Accelerators and netBoot/i to boot directly from iSCSI-based storage, accelerating the server provisioning process. With this solution, users are assured of fast and efficient recovery of entire systems, significantly simplified system management tasks, and reduced costs in IP SAN environments. "By natively supporting emBoot's netBoot/i software on Alacritech Accelerators, customers can now implement a comprehensive and uniform boot infrastructure for their iSCSI SANs," said Joe Gervais, director, Product Management, Alacritech, Inc. "Combining the performance and efficiency of Alacritech Accelerators with netBoot/i offers IT managers the best of both worlds -- fast, efficient IP SAN connectivity and seamless iSCSI booting for all their Windows-based servers." Customers using Alacritech Accelerators with native support for netBoot/i software receive a number of benefits from the iSCSI boot solution including: --A common iSCSI boot infrastructure for iSCSI controllers as well as NICs to allow a single qualification and easier administration; --Dynamic network-based updates for any new iSCSI bootstrap See boot. (operating system, compiler) bootstrap - To load and initialise the operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to "boot". From the curious expression "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", one of the legendary feats of Baron von Munchhausen. changes, which reduces IT support costs by centralizing boot administration; --Network-based administration with centralized boot volume assignment, which allows rapid disaster recovery of failed server hardware; --Teaming support for boot volume to provide fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. boot volume access. "emBoot's partnership with Alacritech will enable Alacritech customers to dramatically improve the server re-purposing process, increase utilization of storage resources and virtualize To cause a virtual technique to be performed. See virtualization. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. volume data storage," said George Kostiuk, founder, emBoot Inc. "Servers utilizing Alacritech Accelerators with support for netBoot/i can now leverage the disaster recovery benefits of iSCSI boot which provides flexibility and cost reductions to businesses of all sizes." About Alacritech Accelerators The Alacritech SEN2000 family of TNICs and the SES2000 family of iSCSI controllers each consist of eight models that are available in copper or fiber versions, and range between one and four ports with support for either the PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. or PCIe bus. Both product lines support iSCSI boot to enable diskless systems to perform iSCSI boot from an IP SAN. Alacritech Accelerators support Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000. All Alacritech Accelerators are based on the company's proven SLIC SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit SLIC Scottish Library and Information Council SLIC System Licensed Internal Code SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card SLIC Session Layer Interface Card (Alacritech, Inc. Technology architecture to deliver unmatched performance and efficiency. All Alacritech products offer industry-standard failover and link aggregation. For more information on iSCSI boot with Alacritech Accelerators, please visit http://www.alacritech.com/html/iscsiboot.shtml. About emBoot netBoot/i emBoot's netBoot/i is a software solution to network boot from iSCSI storage using standard Ethernet adapters and TNICs supporting PXE (Preboot EXecution Environment) An Intel Wired for Management (WfM) capability that enables a PC to boot from the server. It enables remote booting (boot the OS), remote emergency booting (boot a diagnostic program) and remote new system startup (boot the installation . netBoot/i provides the ability to network boot Windows-based servers and desktops from an iSCSI target remotely located over a standard IP network using any combination of NICs and offload devices. netBoot/i includes a Windows software initiator driver, a system snapshot tool for copying local boot volumes to iSCSI targets and all the necessary server components to set up an iSCSI network boot environment. netBoot/i supports CHAP authentication, shared boot volumes, target redirection, and conforms to the internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) standards. About emBoot Inc. emBoot provides network boot products that significantly reduce the cost and complexity of administrating servers, desktops, POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale terminals and embedded systems. Worldwide, millions of networked devices boot using emBoot products. For more information, please visit www.emBoot.com. About Alacritech(R), Inc. Alacritech, Inc. is the world's leading supplier of standards-based scalable networking technology and solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems. As the first to envision a network protocol processing architecture that enables systems to scale to address ever increasing data and network speeds, Alacritech developed and patented the SLIC Technology(R) architecture. Alacritech's complete line of Accelerators, based on this architecture, optimize data delivery in servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology, the basis of industry-accepted TOE solutions, ships in storage and server products worldwide. Alacritech is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.alacritech.com. Alacritech, the Alacritech logo, Dynamic TCP Offload, SLIC Technology, SLIC Technology logo and Accelerating Data Delivery are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Alacritech, Inc. in the United States. emBoot and netBoot/i are trademarks of emBoot Inc. in Canada and the United States The United States and Canada share a unique legal relationship. U.S. law looks northward with a mixture of optimism and cooperation, viewing Canada as an integral part of U.S. economic and environmental policy. . 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