Crossroads Systems Partners With Polaris for Distribution of Fibre Channel Storage Solutions and Services.Business Editors and Technology Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2000 Polaris will resell Crossroads' storage routers to offer the speed, reliability and efficiency of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) 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, today announced that it has chosen to partner with Polaris Service Inc. Polaris is a leading systems integrator providing solutions for IT infrastructure reliability, customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) and storage area networking. This partnership between Crossroads and Polaris is part of the EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. sales reference solutions initiative. "This partnership with Polaris makes our products more available to the enterprise end-user, and also provides quality support and service to our higher end Coordinates: For other places with the same name, see Billinge. Higher End or Billinge Higher End is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. customers," 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. "This kind of high-level sales and support is an added benefit and can ensure smooth installation and optimal performance of our products for our end users." Polaris will provide Crossroads' 4100 and 4200 bi-directional Fibre Channel-to-SCSI storage routers, as well as future Crossroads' products, to customers of EMC Enterprise Storage Networks (ESN (Electronic Serial Number) A unique identification number built into a cellphone for security purposes. ). When connected to storage systems or tape libraries, each storage router enables seamless migration of existing 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. devices to Fibre Channel SANs allowing customers to expand storage capabilities incrementally while controlling initial costs. Through the partnership, Crossroads and Polaris will be able to provide the serviceability and manageability essential to ensuring a successful enterprise installation in each internal IT department. "When evaluating and implementing storage solutions, customers look for a partner that has in-depth knowledge of critical technologies and a reputation for delivering reliable and scalable results," said Karl Laubscher, President of Polaris Service. "By partnering with Crossroads, Polaris is able to provide customers with an advanced data management solution that increases the value of their storage network investments." About Polaris Service Inc. Polaris is a leading service integrator providing solutions for IT infrastructure reliability, customer relationship management (CRM) and storage networking. By partnering with leading enterprise vendors like Crossroads, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. and EMC, Polaris is providing solutions for customers who seek to use information technology to drive business growth and market dominance Market dominance is a measure of the strength of a brand, product, service, or firm, relative to competitive offerings. There is often a geographic element to the competitive landscape. . The company's infrastructure reliability services include technical consulting, Help Desk, technical support and education. As a Siebel Premier Partner, Polaris' CRM group works with clients to customize and implement solutions to increase corporate sales, marketing and customer service effectiveness. Storage network services include consulting, training and interconnect technologies. For more information, please call 800/541-5831 or visit www.polarisservice.com. About Crossroads Crossroads Systems 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. The more than 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 , Bull, Compaq, Dell, Exabyte, Hewlett-Packard, McDATA, Siemens and StorageTek as well as top resellers and distributors including nStor, Bell Microproducts, Cranel, Datalink, Pinacor and Polaris 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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