Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Selects DataCore SANsymphony.Business/Technology Editors FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2001 DataCore SANsymphony offers Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd: -- A dynamic and flexible storage environment -- Added functionality, flexibility and 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). , essential for modern storage environments DataCore(TM) Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. and network control software today announced that Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd (Fujitsu) has joined its progressive European customer base. Fujitsu is a leading supplier of high performance telecommunications solutions and a prime mover prime mover: see energy, sources of. Prime mover The component of a power plant that transforms energy from the thermal or the pressure form to the mechanical form. in the creation of Broadband Britain, specializing in the research and development, design and manufacture of fixed access telecommunications products and services. SANsymphony was selected to provide a more dynamic and flexible storage environment for its growing heterogeneous servers. SANsymphony matched Fujitsu's selection criteria, by providing a solution with the ability to mirror data across sites, improve application 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 throughput performance and implement centralized storage management. In addition, SANsymphony offered Fujitsu the ability to integrate existing legacy storage devices into the proposed configuration, achieving maximum ROI for these arrays. Ian Batten, IT Director, Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd, commented: "SANsymphony is a good match to our requirement - it makes dynamic sharing of RAID arrays trivial, performance is enhanced and administration is easy. We have a scalable way forward, which has more than enough performance for our purposes and appears feature-rich. Storage virtualization is a secure framework for growth. We also find that the commodity server hardware and disk prices are acceptable, switch prices are reasonable and HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. prices are falling. These figures combine to make SANsymphony much cheaper than a monolithic solution, and strongly influenced our selection." Deployment of SANsymphony has afforded Fujitsu a number of benefits including an easy to use centralized management platform for storage allocation Noun 1. storage allocation - (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions allocation . Further advantages include a high performance storage environment capable of integrating existing and future storage devices non-disruptively and a cost-effective means of creating a scalable and highly available platform on which to base future storage growth. "As with so many other large organizations, Fujitsu required a solution for its rapidly growing storage requirements. The company's previous environment, a combination of 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 (Network Attached Storage) and Direct Attached Storage offered limited scalability, complex back-up and limited high-availability of direct attached storage," commented Ken Horner, vice president of marketing at DataCore. "Following a successful evaluation period Evaluation period The time interval over which funds assess a money manager's performance. SANsymphony has gone live with dramatic improvements in performance, administration and cost. This is another example of how SANsymphony can help organizations evolve from restrictive, expensive solutions to a virtual environment which offers excellent ROI, flexibility and hardware component choice." Fujitsu's commissioning of SANsymphony's storage virtualization solution has led to further plans for expanding the solution to other applications. The areas under assessment include implementation of backups based on SANsymphony Snapshot, automation of alternate-path fail-over for application servers based on DataCore's Solaris solution, inter-storage domain server mirroring and diversifying the RAID environment to establish interoperability. About Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Limited - a strategic division of the Telecommunications Group, Fujitsu Limited, Japan - is the largest supplier of Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. equipment in the United Kingdom, the worldwide design location for access network solutions and a centre of excellence for the development of Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ) technology. Currently employing over 1,200 staff around Europe, Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe is focused on providing strategic end-to-end solutions, with a complete turnkey service - from project planning project planning - project management , community liaison, cable laying and civil engineering, to installation, implementation and ongoing maintenance. (For more information, please visit: www.ftel.co.uk) About DataCore DataCore(TM) Software Corporation is the leader in storage virtualization and networking software. The Company's award-winning SANsymphony(TM) storage control software dramatically improves ROI and storage utilization by converting `islands' of disparate storage into networked storage pools, enabling the easy allocation of storage capacity. DataCore distributes its software products through the SANvantage Partner Program including its authorized and technical channel and major OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners worldwide. Founded in 1998 by some of the industry's most respected storage technologists, DataCore is privately-held with headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and other US offices located in NY, CA, IL, and NC with international sales and service operations located in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, and Sydney. For more information, visit http://www.datacore.com. DataCore, the DataCore Logo, and SANsymphony are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation DataCore Software is a privately held, computer software corporation founded in 1998 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. DataCore manufactures storage virtualization software, focusing in Storage Area Networks (SAN), Continuous Data Protection (CDP), and Software Acceleration and . Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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