Crossroads Systems Joins InfiniBand Trade Association; Crossroads' Participation Focuses On Open Standards Processes.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999 Crossroads Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CRDS CRDS Contribution pour Le Remboursement de la Dette Sociale (French: Social Debt Repayment Contribution) CRDS Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy CRDS Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies ), the leading developer and manufacturer of Fibre Channel storage routers See data mover. , today announced its participation in the InfiniBand Trade Association The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is the standards organization that defines and maintains the InfiniBand specification. It is an industry consortium. The IBTA was established in 1999, and its most prominent members include Cisco, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, Sun and . The InfiniBand Trade Association is the result of the merger between the NGIO (Next Generation Input Output) An input/output architecture developed by Intel that evolved into InfiniBand. NGIO was expected to replace the PCI bus with a switching matrix, providing a 2.5 Gbps data path between each pair of nodes. (Next-Generation I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output ) and the Future I/O An input/output architecture developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that evolved into InfiniBand. Future I/O was expected to replace the PCI bus in high-end servers with a switching matrix, providing a high-speed data path between each pair of nodes. organizations. The InfiniBand Trade Association was formed to provide standards for server I/O solutions enabling higher performance, connectivity improvement, and more reliable, available and scaleable communication between servers, storage and networks. Crossroads joins Intel and the other members in the effort to develop an open I/O standard to drive better connectivity for end users. Each company brings to the forum their best enterprise technologies to solve real customer needs as the industry begins to adopt server I/O solutions. "Crossroads has been developing server I/O technology for over a year based upon its foundation for storage routing, using its technology which will then provide the products needed for the InfiniBand Architecture," said Brian R. Smith, 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 Crossroads Systems. "We believe InfiniBand technology is key in providing these powerful solutions to companies whose need for rapid expansion of storage and communication capacities is critical." In the evolution of Fibre Channel and Storage Area Networks (SANs), Crossroads has played a key role in interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. , 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). , storage and server migration solutions. Now, with the development of new System I/O initiatives and participation in the InfiniBand Trade Association, Crossroads broadens its focus to provide additional I/O routing solutions to the IT end user. InfiniBand Trade Association The Internet is creating an increased demand for server computer I/O subsystem performance, scalability, reliability and flexibility. An industry-wide shift to a fabric-based I/O architecture will be required. The InfiniBand(sm) Trade Association is developing an industry specification for a channel-based, switched fabric architecture that provides a scalable performance range of 500MB/s to 6GB/s per link, meeting the needs from entry level to high-end enterprise systems. With wide support from the computing industry's leading companies, InfiniBand Trade Association truly represents the industry's choice for I/O technologies that will keep pace with the demands of the Internet age. About Crossroads Systems Inc. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Crossroads Systems (Nasdaq:CRDS) is the leading provider of storage routers for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs). Crossroads' storage routers enable key SAN applications, including LAN-free backup, storage migration and consolidation, and server migration. These solutions scale from small and medium companies to the largest Fortune 1000 enterprises. By using storage routers and SANs, customers can more effectively and efficiently store, manage and ensure the integrity and availability of data. Crossroads developed its Crossroads Verified SAN (CV-SAN) solution guide in 1998 to simplify SAN design and installation, accelerate SAN adoption, and verify interoperability of SAN solutions. Approximately 3,000 verified configurations in CV-SAN are available on the Web using the Crossroads online configurator at www.crossroads.com. Industry leading OEMs such as ADIC, ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up , Compaq, Dell, Exabyte, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, McDATA and StorageTek as well as top resellers and distributors including Andataco, Bell Microproducts, Cranel, Datalink and Pinacor have partnered with Crossroads to provide these solutions to their customers. For more information on Crossroads Systems and its products, please call 800/643-7148 or visit www.crossroads.com. |
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