JMR Announces Major Alliance of Ten Leading Storage Vendors to Deliver Comprehensive SAN Hardware and Software Package.Business Editors & High Tech Writers ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001 First Pre-tested and Certified Solution From OSMR OSMR Office for Science and Medical Research OSMR Old Southern Moonshine Revival (band) OSMR Orlando Society of Model Railroaders (Florida, USA) Program Will Debut At Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. Conference Ten leading hardware and software storage vendors today announced the formation of an alliance to launch the Open Storage Management Resources (OSMR) program. The new program was created to help ensure product-to-product compatibility and deliver simplified Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions to market. The first certified SAN package available through the OSMR program, "E-Z E-Z Engdahl-Zigangirov (bound) SAN," provides up to 1.1 terabytes of easily managed storage and will be demonstrated at Storage Networking World 2001 in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 22-24, 2001, booth P1. The OSMR program is unique in that customers can purchase a pre-certified and tested hardware bundle and then choose from a variety of leading OSMR program software vendors' products to easily deploy key applications such as 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. , auto backup/restore and volume management. Participating hardware companies include CMD CMD cerebromacular degeneration. ; Chaparral Network Storage; Hitachi America Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. 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"The OSMR initiative with E-Z SAN solution provides the flexibility of supplier choice along with assured interoperability among components, software and systems," said John McArthur John McArthur (November 17, 1826 – May 15, 1906) was a Union general during the American Civil War. McArthur was born in Erskine, Scotland. He learned to be a blacksmith and emigrated to the United States at age 23 and settled in Chicago. , group vice president of storage research for IDC. "Solutions that are hassle-free and avoid the lock-in of proprietary alternatives are a big move in the right direction." Over the last six months, the OSMR program vendors have conducted exhaustive interoperability testing with all software and hardware offerings to guarantee product compatibility at all levels. OSMR vendors will work closely with distributors and resellers to support E-Z SAN and additional OSMR packages by providing hands-on technical training and education, reducing deployment issues and increasing overall support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services to end-users. "Given that we support and distribute storage networking products manufactured by all of the participating vendors, we see the OSMR program as a significant milestone for the industry and, most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , for our customers," said Phil Roussey, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Bell Microproducts. "Customers rely heavily on us to provide them with the right combination of storage solutions, as well as proactive training and support. With the E-Z SAN solution, we not only offer our customers a highly reliable, cost-effective storage solution, but a high level of customer support and technical training." The E-Z SAN solution is composed of the following products: -- BakBone's NetVault backup/restore software -- FalconStor's flagship software solution, IPStor -- OTG's DiskXtender 2000 and SANXtender storage virtualization and file management software -- Sanbolic's advanced volume sharing software, Kayo -- CMD's Titan 7400 Fibre to Fibre RAID Controller or Chaparral's 2GB Fibre Channel-to-Ultra 160 SCSI JFS224 RAID Controller -- Hitachi's 73GB 10,000RPM Fibre or U160 Disk Drives -- JMR's FORTRA 10 Raid subsystem -- JNI's 64-bit Single Port PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (33 MHz), FCE-6410 -- QLogic's 64-bit Dual Port PCI-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (33MHz) -- Vixel's 16-port 7200 and 8-port 7100 Fibre Channel Switches Participating Partner Quotes "Providing Manufacturer Certified Solutions for the storage and protection of our customers' most valuable commodity, their data, is our ultimate goal," said Larry E. Fox, director of strategic alliances for BakBone Software. "We have an obligation and have taken the necessary steps to ensure that our partners as well as our end-users purchase a solution they can have confidence in." "Networking storage remains an intimidating task for most organizations," Greg Mangold, vice president of marketing for Chaparral Network Storage, observed. "The Fortune 5000 businesses have managed to develop expertise in-house to do it. "However, the benefits of using storage networking are every bit as great in midrange companies. Chaparral's partnership in the OSMR initiative gives these businesses a plug-and-play E-Z SAN." "JMR is well known for their products' ability to quickly adapt to the emerging storage needs of customers, and the company's rapid adoption of SAN technology is a testimony to that legacy," said Wayne Lam, vice president of marketing for FalconStor. "FalconStor is happy to be part of this unique initiative to introduce our IPStor software to the numerous storage clients that are currently yearning for a proven storage virtualization solution." "Hitachi is pleased to join JMR and the other OSMR partners to provide a flexible, comprehensive solution for our customers," said Hal Malone, director of sales and marketing, 3.5" HDD (Hard Disk Drive) See hard disk and HDD caddy. HDD - hard disk drive for Hitachi America Ltd. "Hitachi hard drives fit well in the E-Z SAN solution, providing the high performance, reliability and capacity demanded by today's discerning customer for high throughput operating environments. We look forward to working with this group of industry leaders to meet the evolving needs of the dynamic storage market." Duran Alabi, director of marketing and business development for JMR, noted, "JMR is committed to partnering with storage technology leaders that offer storage products designed with reliable, scalable and robust technology tools that meet the performance needs of our joint storage value added resellers and their data-intensive customers. "We are confident that with E-Z SAN and the combination of our proven expertise of over 19 years experience in creating award winning modular storage subsystems, resellers and end-users will greatly benefit from this vendor consortium initiative to offer a simple and cost-effective SAN." "JNI has long advocated solutions such as E-Z SAN that make storage networks simpler and easier to use," said Shaun Walsh, vice president of marketing, JNI Corp. "Our history of providing customers with broad-based interoperability testing, 24x7x365 live support, and even our industry leading EZ FibreTM Fibre Channel host bus adapter See host adapter. configuration and management software have all contributed to making SANs easier to build and manage. JMR has taken an additional step in delivering a total package solution." "OTG has been partnering with leaders in storage technology to streamline and simplify storage management for our customers for years," said William Caple, executive vice president, OTG Software. "By participating in the OSMR program, and helping deliver E-Z SAN, we are providing our customers with an interoperable, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy solution for SAN environments." "A pre-tested and certified SAN solution will enable our customers to focus on their core business and not worry about the components of their SAN," said Chris Hurley, vice president of sales and marketing for Sanbolic Inc. "We believe this program will provide our customers a storage solution with a new level of reliability and better return on their investment." "By working closely with partner companies to simplify the storage implementation process, we are helping both VARs and our mutual end-users reduce their total cost of ownership and increase their return on investment," said Claude Lorenson, director of product marketing, Vixel Corp. "For years, storage solutions have been proprietary, limiting the number of products available to customers. With E-Z SAN our customers now have the opportunity to deploy a fully heterogeneous SAN with optimum support services." Pricing and Availability The E-Z SAN solution is available for immediate delivery through Bell Microproducts' network of resellers and solution integrators, with prices starting at $30,000. About BakBone Software BakBone Software(TM) is a global storage management software company that develops and distributes industry-leading storage management solutions. The company provides data protection solutions for open systems environments that are scalable from workgroup to enterprise. BakBone's core products include nearline optical and archival, as well as tape backup and restore software, offering a full suite of storage management solutions to the corporate data center. NetVault, BakBone's flagship product, offers simplicity of use with unparalleled backup performance. It is a full-featured software solution with a modular architecture. NetVault provides a single storage management solution, from the desktop to the implementation of SAN and 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 , growing with the customer's computing needs. BakBone's other core product is MagnaVault, the industry leading 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). optical and archival software solution. About CMD The 7400 series of Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel RAID controllers utilize the third generation of the Silicon Image, CMD Storage System's Titan architecture to provide data intensive, mission critical applications with high-end availability, performance and fault-tolerance. Features including mirrored cache memory, non-disruptive on-line RAID level migration and RAID set expansion are complemented by advanced capabilities like non-disruptive online firmware updates, remote management via Ethernet, and AutoRebind (automatic failback). The 7400's many features make it perfect for high-availability environments, including storage area networks (SANs) and clustering. About Chaparral Network Storage Inc. Chaparral Network Storage Inc., a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in Colorado, designs and markets simple solutions to common storage networking problems. Chaparral specializes in high performance, high availability SAN connectivity and data storage solutions, and offers bridges, routers, RAID controllers and disk appliances that are SAN-ready, yet easy to install and use. Chaparral storage networking products feature 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. and FC connectivity, easy device configuration and management tools, tested interoperability with other leading SAN products, and automatic integration with most popular storage resource management software platforms. Chaparral's 2Gb/sec Fibre Channel appliances allow any system administrator to build very high performance storage networks on a manageable budget. Chaparral's solutions are available through leading storage VARs and Distributors worldwide. Visit Chaparral Network Storage Inc. at www.chaparralnet.com. About FalconStor FalconStor Software provides the first software-only storage networking solution simplifying storage management while reducing total cost of ownership. IPStor enables companies to utilize storage efficiently, execute backup quickly, and provides vital storage services-virtualization, active-active failover, and capacity-on-demand running on existing industry standard hardware. By incorporating today's established data transport protocols (Fibre Channel, SCSI, IP) and emerging standards (iSCSI, InfiniBand), IPStor provides both SAN and NAS to companies with immediate total freedom of choice. About Hitachi Hitachi America Ltd., Computer Division, supplies high-performance computer storage products and multimedia products to OEMs, value-added resellers, system integrators and distributors. The division's products include high-capacity hard disk drives and DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. and -RAM drives, digital multimedia recorders, LCD projectors, CRT (1) (C RunTime) See runtime library. (2) (Cathode Ray Tube) A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor or TV. The viewing end of the tube is coated with phosphors, which emit light when struck by electrons. monitors, color laser beam printers and flat panel and plasma displays. Hitachi America Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer systems and products, consumer electronics and semiconductors and provides industrial equipment and services throughout North America. For more information, visit www.hitachi.com. Hitachi Ltd., with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 2000 (ended March 31, 2001) consolidated sales of 8,417 billion yen ($67.9 billion(a)). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi Ltd., visit Hitachi's Web site at http://global.hitachi.com. (a) At an exchange rate of 124 yen to the dollar. About JMR JMR is an ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 vertically integrated manufacturer of electronic enclosures for computer peripheral devices Computer peripheral devices Any device connected internally or externally to a computer and used in the transfer of data. A personal computer or workstation processes information and, strictly speaking, that is all the computer does. . With 19 years of experience in the turnkey manufacturing industry, JMR directs the Fortra(TM) product line, providing compatibility and interoperability testing with other technology vendors in the dynamic storage market. JMR has headquarters in Chatsworth, Calif., U.S.A. For more information on JMR, visit: www.jmr.com. For more information on Fortra(TM), visit: www.fortra.net. About JNI Corp. JNI Corp. is a leading manufacturer of enterprise-level products used to create storage networks, and is the dominant manufacturer of host bus adapters (HBAs) for the Solaris environment. JNI offers a broad line of FibreStar(R) HBAs, Emerald(TM) ASICs, and EZ Fibre(TM) and DriverSuite(TM) software for SANs. JNI's products operate on Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows NT, 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. , AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Novell, Linux and Mac OS systems. JNI customers, distributors and strategic partners include Acal FCS FCS - Frame Check Sequence , Avid, Bell Microproducts, Brocade, Chaparral, Compaq StorageWorks, Consan, Crossroads, 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. , Eurologic, Gadzoox, GE Access, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Info X, JMR, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, McDATA, Nishan Systems, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, TidalWire and Veritas. Company headquarters are in San Diego, with offices throughout the United States and Munich (Munchen), Germany. Visit www.jni.com. About OTG Software OTG Software provides next-generation data management and collaboration solutions that virtualizes storage for any type of data, including files, messages and databases, while providing easy and transparent access. OTG's application-oriented approach supports all platforms with open architecture solutions that scale from the department to the enterprise, and integrate seamlessly to store, track and retrieve information. With headquarters in Rockville, Md., the company has a customer base of more than 15,000 organizations and a global network of VARs, distributors and OEMs. Infinite Storage. Immediate AccessTM. www.otg.com. About Sanbolic Inc. Sanbolic Inc. is a privately held company incorporated in 2000 and located in Watertown, Mass. Sanbolic Inc. is providing the market with the latest software for sharing and access of data. The company's Kayo software enables servers and users of a SAN to share data more effectively. The company has announced Melio, a shared file system with heterogeneous operating system support for all storage systems. Melio will be available in the first quarter of 2002. For more information, call 617-926-2802 or visit www.sanbolic.com. About Vixel Corp. Vixel Corp. offers customers real-world solutions for storage networking. As a leading provider of Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, the company's comprehensive portfolio of multivendor certified solutions, switches, hubs and integrated management software delivers reliable, interoperable solutions to its customers and partners. SAN InSite is Vixel's comprehensive open management software for SANs, providing remote control and diagnostics for Fibre Channel switches Major manufacturers of Fibre Channel switches are: Brocade, Cisco, McData and Qlogic.
Vixel products and technology are used by major system suppliers including Avid Technologies, Compaq, Fujitsu Softec, IBM, Lucent, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. Products are available worldwide through its network of value-added resellers, alliances and OEMs. Vixel is an ISO 9001 certified company. For more information, visit Vixel's Web site at www.vixel.com. Vixel Corp's. headquarters are located at 11911 North Creek Parkway South, Bothell, Washington 98011. They can be contacted by phone at 425/806-5509 or e-mail at marketing@vixel.com. All trademarks, names and logos contained herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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