ConvergeNet Joins Legato in the Celestra Consortium; Alliance Supports ConvergeNet's Strategy to Deliver Intelligent Solutions That Optimize Heterogeneous SANs.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1999-- ConvergeNet Technologies, Inc., a developer of a new class of data storage management solutions that enable fibre channel Storage Area Networks (SAN), today announced its membership in the Celestra Consortium. The Celestra Consortium, founded by Legato Systems, provides a forum whereby open technology adoption is facilitated, and integration efficiency is enhanced. Enterprise and Internet customers with large, dynamic storage environments will benefit from ConvergeNet's intelligent purpose built solutions that optimize heterogeneous storage investments. "Membership in the Celestra Consortium supports our strategy of addressing storage management problems through the incorporation of intelligence in the SAN," said Dick Watts, 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 ConvergeNet. "The Celestra-based serverless backup A type of LAN free backup that does not use any of the resources of an application server or a backup server. See LAN free backup. solution that ConvergeNet and Legato will jointly deliver is just one of many storage management solutions that will benefit from more intelligence in the SAN." "In the long run, one intelligent SAN infrastructure will serve all storage needs in heterogeneous environments," said Richard L. Ptak, VP, Systems and Applications Management for the Hurwitz Group, "Serverless backup is the first among many 'back office' services that will leverage intelligence in the SAN to make administrators' jobs easier." "With industry experts like ConvergeNet joining the Consortium, we will work together to make managing data quickly and efficiently throughout an entire enterprise a reality for customers," said Paul JJ Payack, Legato's vice president of worldwide marketing. More information about the Celestra Consortium can be found in today's "Leading SAN Vendors Promote Legato Systems' Open Celestra Architecture for SANS" press release. About Legato Celestra Legato's Celestra is 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 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 ). 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 Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced 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 ConvergeNet Technologies, Inc. ConvergeNet, a privately-held company, designs, manufactures and markets enterprise storage management systems and software. Headquartered in San Jose, ConvergeNet plans to launch its first product later this year. ConvergeNet is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Fibre Channel Association. For more information about ConvergeNet, call 408/545-0320 or email info@convergenet.com, or visit the company's web site at www.convergenet.com. Note to Editors: Convergent is a trademark of ConvergeNet Technologies, Inc. |
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