BlueArc and Syncsort Announce Certification of Si7500 Storage System with Advanced Backup and Restore Solutions.Business Editors 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)--May 29, 2002 BlueArc Corporation, provider of the world's highest performance enterprise-class network storage systems, and Syncsort, a leader in enterprise backup and restore solutions, announced today that BlueArc's Si7500 Storage System has been certified to support Syncsort's Backup Express. Together, BlueArc and Syncsort provide customers a network attached storage (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 ) system with a backup and recovery solution using the standard Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) An open standard for backing up data in a heterogeneous environment. Developed by Network Appliance and IntelliGuard Software, NDMP uses a common data format which is written to and read from drivers for the specific disk and ). BlueArc customers using Backup Express are given complete control of backup and restore, including the ability for users to restore their own files without administrative intervention administrative intervention Diagnostic medicine Any intervention on the part of an administrative body–eg in a hospital or other health care facility, which is intended to influence a physician's pattern of practice–eg, to ↓ overordering of . Syncsort's Backup Express is an enterprise-wide backup and restore solution that supports NAS, NDMP, storage area networks (SAN) and other network configurations. Its distributed architecture allows it to back up to any device in the network, whether it is running 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). , Windows, or NetWare, while maintaining one centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. catalog for the entire enterprise. Backup Express can cluster tape drives, including large automated libraries, at any server on the enterprise; dynamically allocate drives within a SAN; provide four different backup options for NDMP-based systems; keep sensitive data off the network; and allow online backups of large database servers such as Oracle, SAP, MS Exchange, SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. , Sybase, DB2, Informix and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . BlueArc's Si7500 Storage System offers a high-performance, highly scalable network storage solution for enterprise customers. After rigorous testing, BlueArc's product met all requirements and is authorized as an interoperable solution for mutual customers. "BlueArc's SiliconServer Architecture delivers superior I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output processing, which in turn delivers faster backup and restore, providing a tremendous advantage to customers," said Winston W. Hait, senior product manager at Syncsort. "We are pleased to underscore and extend the benefits BlueArc customers receive by providing them with the industry's widest backup coverage for NDMP devices." "Our customers want performance. The SiliconServer architecture accelerates I/O and functions such as NDMP, to provide customers with backup and restore performance when they need it most," said Jeff Allen, senior vice president of marketing, strategy and business development at BlueArc. "We are committed to compatibility and certification with Syncsort's Backup Express to ensure our systems maximize performance and fit seamlessly into our customers' storage networking environments." 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, 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. with UK operations based in Bracknell, England. More information on BlueArc is available on the Internet at www.bluearc.com. About Syncsort Syncsort Incorporated is a leading developer of high-performance data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse software for mainframe, UNIX, and Windows environments. For more than 30 years, Syncsort has built a reputation for superior product performance and reliable technical support. An independent market research firm has named Syncsort as one of the top Data Warehouse 100 Vendors for three years in a row. Over 95 percent of the Fortune 100 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries to back up and protect data in distributed environments, speed data warehouse processing, improve database loads and speed query processing. For more information, visit the Syncsort web site at www.syncsort.com. |
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