Announces Linux Support for Its FibreQuik Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999-- Cambex Corporation Enables Intel-Based Linux Servers to Utilize Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks Cambex Corporation (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :CBEX CBEX China Beijing Equity Exchange ), a leading designer and supplier of Fibre Channel hardware and software solutions for building Storage Area Networks, today announced Linux support for its FibreQuik(TM) PC1000 PCI-to-Fibre Channel host bus adapters. Users running Linux on Intel-based computer servers can use the PC1000 to connect via Fibre Channel to a Storage Area Network (SAN). A SAN delivers the increased performance, scalability, availability, and data management capabilities necessary to effectively utilize the ever increasing amounts of storage being generated by e-commerce and other Internet applications. Linux, an open source-based operating system, is rapidly gaining market share and now comprises an estimated 17% of server operating system See network operating system. shipments according to International Data Corporation. Linux has made especially strong inroads inroads Noun, pl make inroads into to start affecting or reducing: my gambling has made great inroads into my savings inroads npl to make inroads into [+ in the Internet community. A survey conducted by the Internet Operating System Counter found that Linux has become the most popular operating system for Internet applications with approximately 31% of Internet servers using Linux as their operating system. "The availability of Linux support for our FibreQuik adapters is an important enabler for building SANs for Internet applications," stated Peter Kruy, Executive Vice President of Cambex. "A Fibre Channel SAN is the solution of choice to provide high-performance, highly available data storage for e-commerce and on-line transaction processing (database) On-Line Transaction Processing - (OLTP) The processing of transactions by computers in real time. environments". Cambex designs and markets high-performance Fibre Channel host bus adapters, hubs, and disk arrays for building heterogeneous Storage Area Networks in UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT environments. Cambex's FibreQuik Fibre Channel host bus adapters provide Fibre Channel connectivity for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows NT, Novell NetWare, and now Linux-based servers. Using Cambex's dual-pathing Alternate Channel Failover software, the FibreQuik adapters provide high availability, load balancing, and a two-fold performance boost when using two adapters in a host server. The FibreQuik HB2000 is Cambex's next generation digital Fibre Channel hub with industry leading price/performance, flexibility, and scalability. Cambex, headquartered in Waltham, MA, is a leading designer and supplier of Fibre Channel hardware and software solutions for building Storage Area Networks. The Company's products include host bus adapters, hubs, high availability software and disk arrays. The Company also supplies memory for IBM (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) enterprise servers. Cambex is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association and 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 . Cambex can be reached at 781-890-6000, or on the World Wide Web at www.cambex.com. FibreQuik is a trademark of Cambex Corporation; other trademarks are the properties of their respective holders. Forward looking statements are made in this release pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Investors are cautioned that all forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the timing of new announcements or product introductions by the Company and its competitors, the hiring and retention of key employees, competitive pricing pressures, dependence on third parties for components and products, general economic conditions in the United States and international markets, and the risk factors detailed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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