Chaparral Network Storage Joins Legato's New Consortium; Alliance Promotes Open Integrated Architecture For Celestra Technology.LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1999-- Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of intelligent Routers and RAID controllers, announced its affiliation with the new Celestra Consortium founded by Legato Systems. The Celestra forum allows members to collaborate to promote and integrate an open standard for data management and movement across the Storage Area Network (SAN). Enterprise storage backup requires high-performance throughput and continuous data availability from on-line to near-line storage. Therefore, system resources and network bandwidths are easily consumed. "Without a proper SAN management solution, data and applications will continue to be handled independently, thus causing reduced performance or system downtime. The open architecture and interoperability between vendors in the Celestra Consortium offer IT managers a seamless approach to manage their data across the SAN," stated Gary Allison, Chairman 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 Chaparral Network Storage. The Celestra configuration is compatible with Chaparral's high-performance Fibre Channel routers. "The combination of router intelligence and system management is one of the first steps in the direction of full openness and interoperability within the consortium," said Michael Gluck, President and COO of Chaparral. "Creating this SAN initiative benefits this growing market by providing a cost-effective solution at the highest levels of scalability and manageability for the enterprise." "Chaparral's vision of developing SAN solutions that conform with industry standards and enable interoperability for our customers is a key deliverable for SANs," said Paul JJ Payack, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Legato Systems, Inc. "The Celestra architecture is a critical component in Legato's vision of SANs as the backbone of Information Continuance." Through this consortium, tools and support are offered to members to enable implementation of the 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. Extended Copy specification developed by 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 (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ). This includes a "test tool kit" and a joint certification and marketing support program, helping consortium members bring robust, interoperable solutions to market quickly and efficiently. About the Celestra Consortium The founding members of the consortium have demonstrated a strong commitment to SANs and solution interoperability and are considered the leading vendors in this market: 3PARdata, ADIC, Amdahl, Ancor, ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. 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About Legato Celestra Legato's Celestra introduced an open, distributed architecture that optimizes data movement efficiency in SAN environments. Data movement is performed by an intelligent SAN device that complies with the open standard SCSI Extended Copy specification. Data movement intelligence is provided by Legato Celestra agents, enabling powerful applications such as serverless, outboard backup that eliminates the backup window. Control is provided by 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 )-compliant control applications such as Legato NetWorker. This open standards approach means maximum customer ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and operational efficiency. About Chaparral Network Storage In July, 1999, Chaparral Network Storage officially changed its name from Chaparral Technologies to better reflect the company's strategic direction in the network storage area. Headquartered in Longmont, Colorado, Chaparral provides external RAID and Router Fibre Channel and SCSI storage products and solutions to OEM and Distribution customers. Chaparral is privately held and has strategic relationships with Adaptec and others that include equity participation. Additional information about Chaparral and its products can be found at www.chaparralnet.com. For additional information about Chaparral Technologies and their products call: Headquarters: (303) 684-3200 Western Region: (408) 264-1285 European Office: (44) 1235-511345 Or visit our web site at www.chaparralnet.com |
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