Cambex Announces Software for Building Highly Available Windows NT Based Storage Area Networks.Business/Technology Editors NetWorld Interop 2000 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2000 Host-Based Dynamic Path Failover(TM) Software, Providing Ultra-High Availability and Performance for Mission-Critical SANs, is Now Available for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. Environments Cambex Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :CBEX CBEX China Beijing Equity Exchange ), a leading supplier of Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, today announced at the Networld+Interop 2000 exhibition in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. the availability of the company's Dynamic Path Failover(TM) (DPF DPF Digital Photo Frame DPF Diesel Particulate Filter DPF Departamento de Polícia Federal (Federal Police Agency - Brazil) DPF Drug Policy Foundation DPF Duang Prateep Foundation (Thailand) ) software for Windows NT environments. The company's Dynamic Path Failover software 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 (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. environments has been available since 1999. Host-based Dynamic Path Failover software, used with Cambex's FibreQuik Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. ), provides full data path redundancy for superior data availability, delivers dynamic and static load balancing capabilities, and operates in active-active mode to deliver up to twice the performance when accessing storage in a SAN environment. Cambex's Dynamic Path Failover software, along with two FibreQuik HBAs, is deployed on each server that is connected to a Fibre Channel SAN. The SAN is constructed to have redundant Fibre Channel data paths from each server to the storage resources on the SAN (i.e., two HBAs per server as well as redundant Fibre Channel hubs and/or switches). DPF software intelligently monitors the end-to-end integrity of each Fibre Channel data path and automatically detects an HBA, cable, hub, switch, or RAID controller failure in the path. Upon detection of a path failure, DPF dynamically remaps the storage on the failed path to the active data path. When the network failure is corrected, DPF dynamically remaps the storage to the restored path. The failover/failback sequence is completely transparent to users and guarantees never down storage availability. Dynamic Path Failover software operates in active-active mode which means that both Fibre Channel data paths from each server can be accessing SAN-attached storage at the same time. This effectively doubles throughput to SAN attached storage. Furthermore, DPF's load balancing capability acts as a traffic cop to provide for optimal utilization of active-active Fibre Channel paths. Load balancing can be done dynamically or the user can statically configure storage to be accessed on a specific path. "We are excited that our field-proven Dynamic Path Failover software is now available for building mission-critical, high performance SANs in both IBM AIX and Windows NT environments," stated Peter Kruy, Executive Vice President of Cambex. "Cambex is the only Fibre Channel HBA vendor that can deliver host-based, active-active failover capability today. Users that require uninterrupted access to their storage resources can now deploy ultra-high availability SANs with significant performance benefits resulting from our software implementation". Cambex will be exhibiting its Fibre Channel SAN solutions in the FCIA FCIA See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association (Fibre Channel Industry Association) booth 2955 at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. during the Networld+Interop 2000 show taking place May 9-11 in Las Vegas. About Cambex FibreQuik Host Bus Adapters The FibreQuik PC1000 PCI-to-Fibre Channel HBA provides superior performance and availability for building mission-critical, heterogeneous Storage Area Networks in IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, and Windows NT environments. The FibreQuik MC1000 is the industry's only 100 MB/sec Micro Channel-to-Fibre Channel HBA allowing all IBM RS/6000s to be deployed in SAN environments. FibreQuik HBAs support all Fibre Channel topologies including switched fabric, arbitrated loop, and point-to-point. Performance is optimized for both Fibre Channel disk and tape applications. FibreQuik HBAs deliver the highest level of product interoperability and have passed SANMark compliance testing. About Cambex Cambex, headquartered in Waltham, MA, develops, manufactures and markets leading-edge Fibre Channel hardware and software solutions for building Storage Area Networks (SANs). The company offers high performance Fibre Channel host bus adapters and hubs, high availability software, Full-Fibre Channel RAID arrays and management software for the deployment of heterogeneous SAN solutions, providing companies the competitive advantage of constant data access, storage consolidation and centralized management. 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, 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 , the FibreAlliance, and the HP Open SAN Initiative. Cambex can be reached at 781-890-6000, or on the World Wide Web at www.cambex.com. FibreQuik and Dynamic Path Failover are trademarks of Cambex Corporation; other trademarks are the properties of their respective holders. Cambex - SAN Solutions for the Internet Age Forward looking statements are made in this release pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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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