Cambex Joins the FibreAlliance to Support the Advancement of Storage Area Network Management Standards.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1999-- Cambex Corporation Joins Leading SAN Management Organization to Participate in Standards Formation and to Ensure Continued Product Interoperability 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 that it has joined the FibreAlliance, a consortium of leading Fibre Channel vendors working towards the advancement of Storage Area Network (SAN) management standards. The mission of the FibreAlliance is to help customers effectively and rapidly implement Fibre Channel-based storage networks, allowing customers to choose inte in the development of standards based SAN manaiance, said, "Consistent with the goals of the ce, Cambex joins some 30 other Fibre Channel ventake in a SAN environment. 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's Centurion(TM) 2000 disk arrays provide ultra reliable, highly available storage 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) , Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers and Microsoft Windows NT open systems servers. The Centurion 2000 M, FM, FJ, and SA models provide the customer with Fibre Channel, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. , and SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. host connectivity options for building enterprise-wide Storage Area Networks. About the FibreAlliance The FibreAlliance was founded by EMC Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. ) in February of this year to bring together leading Fibre Channel vendors that share a common commitment to help customers more rapidly and easily implement Storage Area Networks. An open consortium of 12 founding companies, the FibreAlliance consists today of more than 30 members, ranging from storage, server and interconnect vendors, to management software companies, systems integrators, and consultancies. The FibreAlliance's work has resulted in a technical framework within which multiple vendors can develop products, such as hubs, switches and host adapters, that customers can manage in a simplified and integrated manner. About Cambex Corporation 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: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 , and the FibreAlliance. Cambex can be reached at 781-890-6000, or on the World Wide Web at www.cambex.com. FibreQuik and Centurion are trademarks 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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