Charismac Updates Emulex FC Driver for OS X; High Performance Fibre Channel Card Driver Works with Legacy Boards in OS X.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUBURN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2003 Charismac Engineering, Inc. updated their super high-performance Emulex Fibre Channel host bus adapter See host adapter. (HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. ) driver to support Apple Computers' OS X today. Shipping for over three weeks now, the new optimized for OSX See Mac OS X. Fibre Channel driver supports the Emulex LP 6000, 7000 and 8000 series of Light pulse Fibre channel cards. "We felt that this was an absolute necessity for our loyal customers moving forward," said Wyler Furgeson, Charismac 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. . "We have several thousand seats of FibreShare v1.0 SAN Software already installed in sites that are running OS 9, many of these sites are ready to begin the migration to OS X now that our FibreShare V2.0 is shipping for OS X. Charismac as a company couldn't in good conscience require our customer base to purchase yet another expensive Fibre Channel HBA in addition to their other costs associated with moving their SANs (Storage Area Networks) to OS X. In most all scenarios these Emulex cards have been running flawlessly since they were first installed." The release of the Emulex (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ELX Elx, Spain: see Elche. ) OS X driver comes on the heels of the release of Charismac's popular volume sharing SAN software package, FibreShare. FibreShare V2.0, released last month, has been met with very enthusiastic demand as it hits the market as the first SAN sharing solution to ship in volume with support for OS X with the same bullet proof stability as other Charismac products. FibreShare V2.0 allows multiple users to access shared storage over high-performance Fibre Channel connection. Using a dual-port 2 GB Fibre channel storage array such as Apple's (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ) XRAID, FibreShare v2.0 users can see speeds in excess of 200 MB/sec at each workstation in a SAN environment while sharing data between hosts seamlessly. The Charismac Emulex driver for OS X is available only as part of the FibreShare v2.0 solution. Upgrade pricing can be obtained by contacting Charismac at sales@charismac.com or by calling (530) 885-4420. More information on FibreShare, or on Charismac's entire suite of world class award-winning Macintosh and Windows utility software products can be found at the Charismac web page, www.charismac.com. Charismac Engineering, Inc., with headquarters in Auburn, California, has produced and licensed quality software applications since 1986 for the Macintosh and Windows family of computers. Charismac Engineering Inc.'s award winning line of utilities include: Discribe, the Anubis Professional Formatting Utility, Charismac RAID, AudioScribe, Backup Mastery, PowerControl, CD AutoCache and FibreShare. |
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