First-Ever Fibre Channel Solid-State Flash Disk will be Introduced by BiTMICRO NETWORKS at CeBIT 2001.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001 Solid State Flash-Based Storage Solutions Provider Will Demonstrate This Emerging Technology in the Fibre Channel Industry Association Exchange, Hall 6, Stand H34 BiTMICRO NETWORKS Inc., a pioneer in intelligent storage, is announcing the introduction of a new Fibre Channel Solid-State Flash Disk at CeBIT 2001 in Hannover. The new E-Disk, to be available in the second quarter this year, sets the stage for future designs which will give BiTMICRO NETWORKS the broadest Fibre Channel product line-up in the industry. The new E-Disk was designed specifically for emerging high- performance Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) applications like caching, indexing and logging, where high availability is required for random read/writes. "Our new E-Disk is an ideal drop-in replacement for conventional rotating media such as hard disk drives that are prone to short production lives," said Tom Griffin, BiTMICRO vice president of marketing. "And since we employ Flash storage technology, the E-Disk provides faster system performance to eliminate bottlenecks for a powerful solution for data storage and protection." The E-Disk Fibre Channel series is built on the patented and well-proven FlashBus technology and is a derivative of BiTMICRO's successful early series of E-Disk product introductions. Like its early E-Disk predecessors, this plug-and-play series of Solid State Flash disks features low power consumption and power-saving commands. It incorporates DataSentinel and PowerGuard, BiTMICRO's proprietary, and the industry's most comprehensive, data protection package. The FC3000 Series is fully compatible with Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS and LynxOS. Other operating systems to be supported include AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , FreeBSD, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , NetBSD, OS/2, QNX A multiuser, multitasking, real time operating system for PCs from QNX Software Systems, Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario (www.qnx.com), that is noted for its low-memory requirement and rapid response. Similar to Unix, it has been in use since the early 1980s. , VxWorks, SCO Unixware and OpenServer, Solaris X86 and Tru64. About BiTMICRO NETWORKS BiTMICRO NETWORKS (http://www.bitmicro.com), a privately held California corporation, is the world's premier supplier of high- performance solid-state disk and storage management solutions. BiTMICRO's storage solutions offer unmatched performance, data availability and manageability across a spectrum of platforms from entry systems to super computers. The company is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA FCIA See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association ) and 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 ). For more product information contact BiTMICRO NETWORKS at http://www.bitmicro.com. Note to Editors: E-Disk(TM), FlashBus(TM), PowerGuard(TM), DataSentinel(TM) and BiTMICRO(TM) are trademarks of BiTMICRO NETWORKS Inc. Others are trademarks of their respective companies or other countries. |
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