Smart Storage Announces San Configured Storage With Its Smartstor Infinet Product.Business/Technology Editors ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2000 Smart Storage Inc., the leading provider of standards-based online data storage software, in conjunction with four leading storage vendors, recently demonstrated a SAN configuration of SmartStor InfiNet. The demonstration integrated a Plasmon optical jukebox See optical disc library. , an Exabyte M2 tape library, fibre-channel-to-SCSI bridges from ATTO Quintillionth (10 to the -18th power). See space/time. , and a QLogic switch. The collaboration of these four companies, using currently shipping components, demonstrates the viability of secondary storage in high-performance, distributed SAN configurations. SmartStor InfiNet is a data management software product that virtualizes primary and secondary storage volumes into a single easily managed volume. The product offers intelligent data migration based on storage policies and provides cost-effective, long-term data accessibility. From a single, unified Explorer-like console, InfiNet administrators can simultaneously set policies, monitor events, and seamlessly manage the availability of critical business information regardless of whether it is physically located on a server, RAID storage subsystem The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. or secondary storage devices such as JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks , optical, and tape. "SAN technology is evolutionary, not revolutionary. While our technology is very well positioned to take advantage of SAN technology, we also recognize that our success is based on partnering with other vendors to ensure that our respective products work together, providing a turn-key solution to our customers," stated Peter Smails, vice president of sales & marketing at Smart Storage. "SAN technology is now entering a more mature, stable phase and customers are looking to add proven, highly reliable, cost-effective removable storage to complement and help control the ever-increasing growth of on-line storage capacity. Plasmon is pleased to be working with Smart Storage on the leading edge of enabling this technology integration," said Tom Ferguson Tom Ferguson could refer to:
"Coupled with proven SmartStor products for DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and MO and Exabyte tape support," said Curt Mulder, market development manager at Exabyte, "this SAN configuration is the ideal solution for IT and MIS (1) (Management Information System) An information system that integrates data from all the departments it serves and provides operations and management with the information they require. professionals who want to reduce cost and maintenance of their storage solutions. This solution also offers users superior capacity at a very low cost. Exabyte sees Smart Storage as a company that is proven and dedicated to producing the best storage products. We are happy to be working with them." "Given the global explosion of digital data, the fundamental ability of storing, retrieving and sharing information is as critical as the information itself," said Don Bauch, director of marketing at ATTO Technology ATTO Technology is a manufacturer of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments. ATTO manufactures host adapters, interface-bridging appliances, Virtual Tape Library appliances, RAID appliances, and management software with storage . "ATTO is pleased to work with Smart Storage in enabling mission-critical data to be reliably shared among multiple users in a SAN configuration." "QLogic believes 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. is an important technology in the evolution of storage networking," said Carla Kennedy, vice president of marketing for QLogic's Switch Products Group. "By combining QLogic SAN infrastructure solutions like our SANbox switches with products like SmartStor InfiNet, network administrators can better manage the availability of data in a cost-effective manner." About Smart Storage Smart Storage is a leading provider of standards-based data storage management and data access software for Windows NT/2000, 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). , and NetWare environments. The SmartStor suite of products provides increased data accessibility, primary storage scalability, and seamless data migration which allow enterprises and their end-users to leverage data across the entire organization without interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. . SmartStor products have been installed at over 10,000 corporations and government agencies worldwide with storage solutions ranging from single storage devices to enterprise-wide network storage systems. With its corporate headquarters in Andover, Massachusetts, and subsidiary offices in Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and India, Smart Storage markets its complete line of SmartStor products worldwide through partnerships with distributors, VARs, system integrators See systems integrator. , and OEMs. For product, sales, and support information, contact Smart Storage in the U.S. by phone at 888/479-0100 or E-mail at sales@smartstorage.com. For international inquiries, please contact our offices in Germany by phone at 49-221-272-910 and Japan by phone at 03-5798-2305. Copyright 2000. Smart Storage is a registered trademark of Smart Storage Inc. InfiNet is a trademark of Smart Storage. All other trademarks or tradenames are the property of their respective holders. |
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