Brocade and XIOtech Release SOLUTIONware for Business Continuance and Storage Consolidation Using XIOtech MAGNITUDE Enterprise Storage in Brocade SANs.Business Editors & Technology Writers EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn. & 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)--Dec. 10, 2001 Step-by-Step Implementation Guide Speeds Storage Area Network Deployment XIOtech Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Seagate and a storage area network (SAN) pioneer, and Brocade Communications Systems Brocade, Inc. NASDAQ: BRCD, based in Silicon Valley, designs, manufactures, and sells storage networking solutions and management applications for storage area networks (SANs) and file area networks (FANs). , Inc. (Brocade brocade (brōkād`), fabric, originally silk, generally reputed to have been developed to a high state of perfection in the 16th and 17th cent. in France, Italy, and Spain. (R)) (Nasdaq:BRCD), the world's leading provider of infrastructure for SANs, announced today their first joint Brocade SOLUTIONware(TM) to help their mutual customers speed SAN implementation in a XIOtech and Brocade environment. The new SOLUTIONware describes an enterprise SAN configuration for storage consolidation and remote mirroring. This allows companies to reclaim unused storage capacity and to back up their data to a remote location, enabling business continuance in case of a disruptive event. Storage Array Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. for Heterogeneous Hosts Environment Using the XIOtech MAGNITUDE, describes how to implement Brocade SilkWorm silkworm, name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of the temperate zone. The culture of silkworms is called sericulture. (R) fabric switches in a SAN with the XIOtech MAGNITUDE(TM) SAN hardware platform. The combination of technology from Brocade and XIOtech provides customers with a flexible, easy-to-deploy solution that combines individual disk drives into a pool of shared storage, thereby simplifying data management and optimizing storage capacity that would otherwise go unused. Leveraging XIOtech's REDI(TM) SAN Links Replicator See port replicator. replicator - Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or software and a redundant networked architecture, companies can also mirror their data, replicating it to a remote site to which operations can fail over following a disruptive event. A demonstration of this configuration is available to visitors at the Brocade Executive Briefing Center in San Jose, Calif. "For many businesses that are facing the daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin task of storing, managing, and administering an ever-increasing amount of business-critical data with limited resources, optimizing storage capacity creates immediate efficiencies in the datacenter that generate a significant return on investment," said Jay Kidd, Brocade Vice President of Product Marketing. "By migrating from a direct-attached storage Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS. environment to a SAN, companies can optimize their investments in servers, storage, and personnel resources, dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership for their storage environments. We are pleased to work with XIOtech to make resources available that help our customers speed and simplify this crucial migration." "This joint SOLUTIONware provides customers with a step-by-step solution combining the flexibility, scalability, and ease of the XIOtech MAGNITUDE with the speed and intelligence of Brocade fabric switches to enable business continuance solutions such as remote mirroring," said Richard Blaschke, Executive Vice President of Marketing for XIOtech. "Brocade and XIOtech work together to provide our customers with the best service in the storage market, and this guide is the latest product of that commitment." With the addition of the new SOLUTIONware, Brocade now offers more than 50 SOLUTIONware configurations to the public. XIOtech and Brocade regularly produce guides for enterprise storage customers--Brocade through its SOLUTIONware offerings and XIOtech through its Enterprise Solutions Program. With verified Brocade SOLUTIONware and XIOtech Enterprise Solution Guides, customers benefit in reduced SAN deployment time, gaining a quicker return on their technology investment. About Brocade SOLUTIONware Brocade SOLUTIONware(TM) simplifies SAN implementation by providing proven and pre-tested "recipes for success" for addressing today's most challenging data management requirements. Each of the more than 50 SOLUTIONware guides provides step-by-step instructions on how to integrate and configure a wide range of devices with Brocade SilkWorm(R) fabric switches in discrete SAN solutions for applications such as LAN-free and server-free backup, server and storage consolidation, 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. , and business continuance. Brocade works closely with application, storage, and systems partners to ensure seamless interoperability of solutions in these environments. For more information on Brocade SOLUTIONware, visit www.Brocade.com/SAN/sansolutions.html. About the XIOtech Enterprise Solutions Program To help its customers implement end-to-end, enterprise storage strategies, XIOtech developed the Enterprise Solutions Program. Enterprise Solutions have been qualified and tested by XIOtech's storage experts to ensure interoperability, seamless implementation, and maximum performance. The cornerstone of each solution is the Solution Guide, which provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on implementing the particular storage solution. The Solution Guide identifies the right equipment and shows the customer how to connect all the pieces. About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Brocade (Nasdaq:BRCD) offers the industry's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. The world's leading systems, applications, and storage vendors have selected Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions. The Brocade SilkWorm(R) family of fabric switches and software is designed to optimize 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. and storage and server resources in the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of storage area networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency. For more information, visit the Brocade website at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com. About XIOtech Corporation XIOtech Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate, develops comprehensive network storage solutions for business customers. The XIOtech MAGNITUDE hardware platform is based on the company's exclusive REal-Time Data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. Intelligence (REDI) software family--the first in the industry to incorporate true storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. . The MAGNITUDE hardware platform, along with XIOtech's comprehensive suite of application-specific software, makes storing, managing, safeguarding, and retrieving data on heterogeneous computing platforms See platform. easy and cost effective. For more information, visit XIOtech's Web site at www.xiotech.com, call (952) 983-3000, or email info@xiotech.com. About Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. Seagate Technology is the world's leading provider of storage technology for Internet, business and consumer applications. The company's products include disc drives for the enterprise, PCs and consumer electronics markets, as well as storage area network (SAN) solutions. Seagate's market leadership is based on delivering award-winning products, customer support, and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com. Brocade, Extended Fabrics, Fabric Aware, Fabric Integrator, Fabric OS, Fabric Threads, Fabric Watch, Fabric Weaver, QuickLoop, SilkWorm, SilkWorm Express, and SOLUTIONware are trademarks or registered trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or in other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products or services of their respective owners. XIOtech is a registered trademark and MAGNITUDE and REDI are trademarks of XIOtech Corporation. Seagate and Seagate Technology are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . Brocade, SilkWorm, and SOLUTIONware are trademarks or registered trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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