Clariion Readies Server-Free Backup for Q1 2000.Data General Corp's Clariion storage division will take its storage area network (SAN) offering a stage further at the beginning of next year, launching a server-free backup facility in its Navisphere management software. The business unit, which is currently being endowed en·dow tr.v. en·dowed, en·dow·ing, en·dows 1. To provide with property, income, or a source of income. 2. a. with a direct sales force to beef up its standing within DG (CI No 3,664), launched LAN-free backup A LAN-free backup is a backup of server data to a shared, central storage device without sending the data over the local area network (LAN). It is usually achieved by using a storage area network (SAN). in May, when its parent unveiled the strategy for its fast-growing offspring off·spring n. 1. The progeny or descendants of a person, animal, or plant considered as a group. 2. A child of particular parentage. . That facility takes the actual backup operation off the network, but the software to carry it out still resides on the LAN server (1) A network operating system from IBM that runs as a server application under OS/2 and supports DOS, Windows and OS/2 clients. Originally based on LAN Manager when OS/2 was jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft, starting with LAN Server 3. . The next step, therefore, is to make backup fully independent from the local area network, placing the intelligence to execute it on the storage area network. Also launching in the first quarter of next year, said Sarah Wong, European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. solutions manager for Clariion, will be what the company terms cascading SANs, making it possible for LAN servers to access data, over switches, on storage devices at great physical distances away. |
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