SANRAD Announces iSCSI Support for Novell NetWare, including NetWare 6.5.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2003 SANRAD Incorporated, a leader in iSCSI SAN solutions and a member of Novell's iSCSI development program, today announced that its vSwitch -iSCSI Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. Switch - supports Novell's NetWare 5.1 through 6.x operating environments, including the soon-to-be-released NetWare 6.5. As part of SANRAD's ongoing commitment to Novell's customers, SANRAD is immediately shipping its iSCSI IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force RFC (Request For Comments) A document that describes the specifications for a recommended technology. Although the word "request" is in the title, if the specification is ratified, it becomes a standards document. compliant vSwitch to companies installing IP based storage area networks for NetWare environments. "NetWare 6.5 supports new storage area network features that make it simple for NetWare environments to migrate to a robust storage area network," commented Richard Jones, Novell Storage Product Manager. "NetWare 6.x provides 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. for simple capacity provisioning and volume spanning. We have also introduced data replication to support high availability requirements. With SANRAD and its vSwitch, our customers have the ability to easily and quickly build robust IP SANs for their NetWare applications." The combination of NetWare's new array of storage management and SANRAD's vSwitch storage architecture delivers a highly available, scaleable and easy to manage IP SAN solution for Novell's enterprise-class and mid-tier customer base. These customers require performance, security, investment protection and reliability within networked storage architecture. Using NetWare and SANRAD's vSwitch, users can consolidate servers and diverse storage systems in an easy to manage storage area network (SAN). Uli Gal-oz, SANRAD CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. comments "NetWare 6.5 optimizes cluster services for the deployment of mission critical applications over economical iSCSI /IP SANs. Novell and SANRAD are providing powerful data availability and storage management tools to mid-range and enterprise customers. NetWare 6.5 storage features increase productivity while driving down the overall costs of managing data availability and storage resources. Our vSwitch complements NetWare 6.5 by providing IP SAN participation to legacy 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. DAS or FC SAN systems, storage virtualization for server cluster volume sharing, active/active path failover for high availability, and non-disruptive provisioning and scaling of storage resources to 100s of TBs." About SANRAD SANRAD is an original equipment manufacturer and developer of the vSwitch - iSCSI Virtualization Switch. SANRAD's mission is to provide secure and manageable SAN solutions over LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , MAN and WAN. SANRAD is dedicating its resources to the storage virtualization and management market and has been delivering vSwitches for over a year through its global channel partners and OEMs. SANRAD is a member of the RAD Group. For additional information, please visit SANRAD Website at: www.sanrad.com About the RAD Group The RAD group is a family of 22 independent companies that develop, manufacture and market solutions for diverse segments of the networking and telecommunications industry. Six of the RAD companies are traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. in the U.S.; the other companies are privately held by the Group's founders and several venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] . |
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