Cambex Supports HP Open SAN Initiative.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000 Cambex Corporation (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :CBEX CBEX China Beijing Equity Exchange ) a leading producer of Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, today announced support for Hewlett-Packard Company's Open SAN Initiative. The Open SAN Initiative, through its SAN Interoperability Program, will enable HP and Cambex to verify that their joint SAN solutions meet the interoperability and manageability requirements of a multi-vendor environment. "Interoperability, manageability and scalability are key ingredients of successful SANs," said Joseph Kruy, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Cambex. "Our alliance with HP will help us satisfy these criteria when HP SAN solutions are tested with Cambex's FibreQuik host bus adapters and hubs." "HP and Cambex share a common SAN vision to provide customers an unprecedented level of choice, openness and interoperability," said Marilyn Edling, vice-president and general manager of HP's Enterprise Storage Business Unit. "We are pleased that Cambex's FibreQuik Fibre Channel infrastructure products are part of HP's SAN Interoperability Program." SAN architectures benefit IT management by reducing the cost of storage scalability and configuration, while increasing 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 accessibility. Without introducing new approaches to storage management and administration, configurations would threaten to complicate, rather than simplify the task of managing heterogeneous enterprise SANs. Also, it would force IT management to be locked into proprietary, rather than "Open" Fibre Channel networking topologies. 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 (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) (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 , and the FibreAlliance. Cambex can be reached at 781-890-6000, or on the World Wide Web at www.cambex.com. FibreQuik is a trademark 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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