BlueArc Announces Certification with StorageTek; BlueArc Enables Interoperability for Customers Like Lawrence Livermore National Labs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002 BlueArc Corporation, provider of the world's highest performance enterprise-class network storage systems, and StorageTek(TM) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :STK), an expert in high-performance, efficient, digitized data storage, today announced that BlueArc's Si7500 Storage System has been certified to support the full spectrum of StorageTek's tape library backup solutions, including its top-end virtual tape library A hard disk array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks while continuing to use the existing tape backup software. See virtual tape system and storage virtualization. , the StorageTek PowderHorn Series. Together, BlueArc and StorageTek provide customers with centralized, manageable storage with high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , seamless scalability and unprecedented performance. BlueArc and StorageTek jointly tested and cross-certified StorageTek's full range of libraries ranging from 20 to 6,000 tapes to ensure interoperability for joint customers. One joint customer includes Lawrence Livermore Lawrence Livermore may refer to:
"As a user of both BlueArc and StorageTek technology, this certification reduces the strain on our network and increases overall performance, which is beneficial for our high-powered computing simulations," said Mark Seager, ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. tera-scale system principal investigator Noun 1. principal investigator - the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project PI scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences for Lawrence Livermore National Labs. "We are familiar with working with both companies, and will be developing additional challenges for them in the future." BlueArc's Si7500 Storage System offers vast performance and scalability advancements over competitive solutions, which enables StorageTek to better acquire and support customers in the NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular market. StorageTek supplements BlueArc's benefits by providing massive capacity, enterprise class reliability, and high-speed access -- ideal for large NT, 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). , mainframe and supercomputer systems Three firms have held, simultaneously, the name Supercomputer Systems or Supercomputing Systems. The first was founded by Steve Chen, architect of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP. The second was based in San Diego, California, USA. . "The SiliconServer(TM) technology has proven to integrate seamlessly with ours, and fits with our overall mission of helping customers increase data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. while reducing their overall storage expenses," said Pete Koliopoulos, StorageTek director, product marketing, Automated Tape Solutions. " BlueArc's interoperability with StorageTek's solutions offers our joint customers the flexibility for a wide range of backup and data management options." "The StorageTek certification ensures that our customers have a broad range of scalable, quality data management solutions that provide the best protection of business-critical information," said Chuck Joseph, senior vice president, sales, marketing and service for BlueArc. "Working with StorageTek increases BlueArc's capabilities and productivity for our customers by providing them with solutions that are easy to manage and allow universal access to data across storage networks." About BlueArc BlueArc Corporation delivers the world's highest-performance and most scalable enterprise-class network attached storage (NAS) system. BlueArc's systems are designed to simplify the way enterprise customers design and build their storage infrastructures, allowing them to fully exploit their networks while dramatically lowering their total cost of ownership. BlueArc is able to provide products with groundbreaking speed, scalability and low total cost-of-ownership as a result of its unique SiliconServer architecture. This revolutionary technology removes the bottlenecks that limit performance in other NAS systems on the market today. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., with UK operations based in Bracknell, England. More information on BlueArc is available on the Internet at www.bluearc.com, or call 866/864-1040. About StorageTek StorageTek (NYSE:STK), a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., delivers a broad range of storage solutions for digitized data. StorageTek solutions are easy to manage and allow universal access to data across servers, media types and storage networks. StorageTek is the innovator and global leader in virtual storage solutions for tape automation, disk storage systems and storage networking. Because of StorageTek, customers can manage and leverage their digital assets as their businesses grow and can maximize IT productivity to ensure enterprise-class business continuity. For more information, see www.storagetek.com, or call 800/786-7835. |
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