Amdahl and McDATA Extend Successful SAN University; Fills Enterprise Expertise Shortage and Speeds SAN Implementation.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000 Amdahl Corp. and McDATA Corp., leading storage area network (SAN) companies, have teamed to bring vendor-neutral SAN education to the IT industry worldwide through SAN University(TM). SAN University has extended its successful 1999 pilot program offering a structured and systematic curriculum to meet continuing customer demand. SAN University helps IT professionals build the infrastructure to handle the exploding amounts of data generated by e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , network globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , mergers/acquisitions and accelerating data digitization dig·i·tize tr.v. dig·i·tized, dig·i·tiz·ing, dig·i·tiz·es To put (data, for example) into digital form. dig . At SAN University, IT professionals also learn about high-value disciplines, such as backup and recovery, 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. and data integration that a SAN environment can provide. SANs are the data center infrastructure of the future, but lack of experience, implementation challenges and 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. issues are considerable. The industry needed to offer comprehensive education for people trying to implement SAN environments. Amdahl and McDATA have answered the challenge with the SAN University curriculum. The Amdahl/McDATA partnership delivers a high-value SAN education program. "As SAN adoption accelerates, enterprises face a critical shortfall Shortfall The amount by which the capital required to fulfill a financial obligation exceeds available capital. Notes: Shortfall risk is often combated with an efficient hedging strategy created by a fund, group, institution, or individual. in expertise," said Richard McCormack, vice president of Storage Marketing, Amdahl. "SAN University addresses this problem with a concentrated, accelerated curriculum to help customers speed SAN implementation and improve their competitiveness." "We want to help IT professionals establish control over the incredible amount of information pervading their organizations," said Jeff Vogel Jeff Vogel is the president and primary programmer for the Spiderweb Software company, which produces shareware computer games for Macintosh and Windows PC platforms. Jeff currently lives in Seattle, Washington. , vice president of Marketing and Systems Integration at McDATA. "We are very pleased to join with Amdahl to offer the only comprehensive SAN education program that equips IT professionals with the tools to access, implement and design a SAN." Structured, Proven Curriculum SAN University offers complete, hands-on experience that IT professionals can directly apply to the customer environment. SAN University helps companies assess business and technical requirements, apply SAN strategies to IT objectives, understand Fibre Channel and select the most appropriate topology topology, branch of mathematics, formerly known as analysis situs, that studies patterns of geometric figures involving position and relative position without regard to size. . SAN University also teaches how to plan and design a Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure, install and configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. SAN components correctly the first time and administer the enterprise fabric environment. Evaluators consistently rated the pilot program very highly -- typically commenting, "well-organized," "comprehensive" and "knowledgeable instructors." Coming soon is a free, one-hour PlaceWare-based SAN Essentials class that will be available on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Following is the initial schedule of fee courses. Additional dates, locations and courses will continue to be added, and the content will continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. be updated to stay current with the rapidly evolving SAN environment.
Dates Course Duration Location
June 20 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day Detroit
June 22 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day Chicago
June 27 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day U.K.
June 28-29 Designing the SAN Infrastructure 2 Days U.K.
July 10 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day Wash., D.C.
July 11 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day Hartford, Conn.
July 13 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day Toronto
July 17 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day Dallas
July 18-19 Designing the SAN Infrastructure 2 Days Dallas
July 21 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day San Francisco
Aug. 1 Fibre Channel SAN Basics 1 Day Denver
Aug. 2-4 Implementing SAN Solutions 2.5 Days Denver
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More information can be found by visiting http://www.sanuniversity.com, by calling 800/752-0393, or by e-mailing sanuniversity@mcdata.com. Collaborative Resource Bringing together the complementary strengths of Amdahl and McDATA, SAN University is a unique resource for companies that want to move quickly to SAN technology. Amdahl contributes extensive data center expertise and fiber optic infrastructure experience and an open, non-proprietary SAN solutions approach. "Our alliances with the leading Fibre Channel vendors in the business and our intensive program of integration and interoperability testing enable Amdahl to deliver cost-effective and highly reliable SAN solutions. This is the background and expertise we bring to SAN University," said Bobby Young, chief technology officer, Amdahl Corp. In addition to offering storage products that attach to servers from multiple vendors, Amdahl delivers integrated SAN solutions that include servers, storage subsystems The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. , hubs, fabric switches and Fibre Channel host bus adapters See host adapter. , along with SAN planning and implementation services. McDATA specializes in providing highly available, scalable and centrally managed SAN solutions, leading the industry with enterprise-class Fibre Channel switching In a computer storage field, a Fibre Channel switch is a network switch compatible with Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. It allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric, that is currently the core component of most storage area networks. products that complement Amdahl's enterprise planning and implementation expertise. "McDATA has been an early leader in offering comprehensive SAN education," said Mike Gustafson, vice president of Worldwide Sales and Service at McDATA. "Our solutions-oriented curriculum is highly leveraged from direct experiences in our state-of-the-art Systems Integration Lab (SIL See safety integrity level. 1. SIL - "SIL - A Simulation Language", N. Houbak, LNCS 426, Springer 1990. 2. SIL - SNOBOL Implementation Language. Intermediate language forming a virtual machine for the implementation of portable interpreters. ) and from our FabricReady SAN solutions. "Since 1998, we've trained more than 1,200 engineers, consultants and IT staff. At SAN University, we want IT professionals to take McDATA's expertise and experience and put it all to work in their own data centers." About McDATA Corp.: http://www.mcdata.com/McDATA/mcinfo.html About Amdahl Corp.: http://www.amdahl.com/about/abtamh.htm Notes to Editors: Amdahl is a registered trademark and SAN University is a trademark of Amdahl Corp. McDATA is a registered trademark of McDATA Corp. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. The information in this document may be superseded by subsequent documents. For details regarding delivery of specific products, features and services, contact a local Amdahl representative. Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at http://www.amdahl.com/, the Amdahl Corp. home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. . |
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