HP Delivers Switched Fabric for HP-UX Environments; Technology Enables Superior Connectivity for Storage Area Networks.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) today announced it is delivering switched fabric (fabric login) for HP 9000 servers, strengthening HP's long-standing leadership in fibre channel technology and Storage Area Networks (SANs). Through this technology, HP 9000 servers can now actively participate in switched SANs to deliver a flexible pool of storage that provides secure, maximum data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. and nearly infinite scalability for enterprises. The switched fabric functionality is available with HP's next-generation PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). tachlite fibre channel adapter for HP 9000 A-, L-, N- and V-Class servers running 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. (1) 11.0. Switched fabric also will be available on HP's new, ultra-scalable 64-way HP 9000 Superdome server with HP-UX11i. The adapter provides high performance, complete functionality and superior reliability for demanding and complex storage environments. "For today's storage requirements, enterprises demand the flexibility, scalability, reliability and manageability of switched fabric SANs," said Mark Hudson, senior director of marketing for HP's Business Critical Computing Business Unit. HP provides a complete SAN solution that fully integrates storage subsystems, switches, host bus adapters and servers. HP's world-class servers, combined with the company's storage arrays, the HP SureStore E Disk Array XP256 and XP512, provide high-performance, highly available switched storage networks. Uptime for the storage architecture can be enhanced with HP's high-availability tools such as MC/ServiceGuard. Moreover, with HP providing a complete SAN solution, customers can look to one convenient source for purchase, service and support. HP is committed to the Open SAN Initiative to promote industry interoperability and is dedicated to offering customers choices in open, heterogeneous storage networking environments. The HP PCI fibre channel adapter interoperates with switches from Brocade Communications, McDATA Corporation and EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. , as well as with EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems. Availability The switched fabric functionality is available immediately worldwide. Further details and ordering information are available at www.hp.com/go/hp9000io. Pricing is available from HP sales representatives and channel partners. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on. HP has 86,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). 95 branded products. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. |
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