GST Announces Bridges for SAN Connectivity.LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- GST GST abbr. Greenwich sidereal time GST (in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) Goods and Services Tax Inc., manufacturer of innovative storage solutions, announced their BridgeLink(TM) family of 2 Gigabit bridges, engineered to provide an intelligent, high-performance bridge between 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 and Fibre Channel devices within a SAN. They are optimized to enable a high-speed Fibre Channel initiator to communicate with slower SCSI target devices. This permits the use of older backup solutions with SCSI interfaces, which are connected via the GST Bridge to newer and faster Fibre Channel devices, like a server in a Storage Area Network (SAN) environment. This capability of GST Bridges helps to protect investments in legacy backup SCSI tape devices because they can be used following the installation of a SAN. PRODUCT FAMILIES GST's Fibre-to-SCSI Bridges are available in four models: Fibre-SCSI LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential and Fibre-to-SCSI HVD (1) (High Voltage Differential) See SCSI and differential signaling. (2) (Holographic Versatile Disc) A high-capacity optical disc from the HVD Forum (www.hvd-forum. base models; these are all available in desktop and rackmount enclosures. David Trossell, managing director at Bridgeworks, said: "Our engineering know-how together with GST's knowledge of the tape environment is the perfect combination for bringing state-of-the-art bridge products to the server market." Dave Alrick, IBM product specialist at World Data Products Inc., a GST Partner, reported: "The plug-and-play simplicity of GST Bridges makes them extremely easy for users to implement, and the auto-configuration assures they can be put into operation immediately. Our customers will also like the complete GUI management interface that ensures they'll have no trouble operating them. With support for tape subsystems, autoloaders and tape libraries, the range of uses for GST Bridges covers the gamut of tape devices." --Full release (pdf) - http://www.gstinc.com/news/press/files/bridge.pdf --Full release (doc) - http://www.gstinc.com/news/press/files/bridge.doc About GST Inc. GST Inc. (http://gstinc.com) engineers, manufactures, markets and sells a line of innovative storage products to meet the need for high-performance, continuous reliability and cost-effective data storage for a wide variety of servers. GST's products range from single and dual tape subsystems, autoloaders and midrange tape libraries, to modular enterprise-wide libraries. Tape technologies supported include AIT, DAT (1) (Dynamic Address Translator) A hardware circuit that converts a virtual memory address into a real address. See also DAT file. (2) (Digital Audio Tape) A magnetic tape technology used for backing up data. 72, LTO, SAIT See AIT. , SDLT (Super DLT) See DLT. and SLR (1) (Scalable Linear Recording) A line of magnetic tape drives from Tandberg Data that evolved from the QIC Data Cartridge format. See QIC. (2) (Single Lens Reflex) A camera that uses the same lens for viewing and shooting. . Complete information about the company, its products and support can be found at the company's Web site. Photo Links Photos can be downloaded for GST's BridgeLink(TM) product family: --BridgeLink(TM) - http://www.gstinc.com/images/108_109.jpg |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion