EMC EXPANDS INTEROPERABILITY LAB FOR STORAGE AREA NETWORKS.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. Corp. unveiled the EMC E-Infostructure Interoperability Program. With $1 billion over six years invested in storage interoperability testing, EMC is expanding the interoperability-testing program. The enhanced capabilities enable customers to employ EMC E-Infostructure to harness, manage and use enterprise information more rapidly, safely and simply, regardless of application origin, operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , interconnect or server. As part of the EMC E-Infostructure Interoperability Program, EMC has opened "E-Lab," an enlarged interoperability testing facility located at the heart of its 150,000-square-foot product development facility in Hopkinton, Mass. The E-Lab expands EMC's ability to perform stress tests on all EMC Enterprise Storage Network (ESN (Electronic Serial Number) A unique identification number built into a cellphone for security purposes. ) components, including tests of base qualifications, interoperability and standards compliance. The goal is to ensure that all components of the multivendor ESN, from storage systems, servers, switches, hubs, host adapters Also called a "controller" or "host bus adapter," it is a device that connects one or more peripheral units to a computer. It is typically an expansion card that plugs into the bus. IDE and SCSI are examples of peripheral interfaces that call their controllers host adapters. See host. , bridges and tape systems, to databases, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and management software, interoperate in the complex, widely varied storage network environments found at real customer sites. |
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