StorageTek to OEM FalconStor. (Storage News Review).StorageTek is set to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and custom software from 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. specialist FalconStor Software Inc in order to add data replication functions to the ATA-based disk devices it launched late last year. In the short term Storage Technology Corp will resell FalconStor's IPStor software, adding the product to the handful of other third-party software applications which already sells. By around August this year, the company says that it and FalconStor will have jointly developed a custom heterogeneous data replication appliance which will be badged as a StorageTek device. The deal is the first OEM arrangement for FalconStor, whose major resellers to date have been Acer Acer trees of the family Aceraceae. Acer rubrum ingestion of wilted or dries leaves of this tree causes acute hemolytic anemia characterized by red urine, jaundice, anemia and methemoglobinemia in horses. Inc, Fujitsu and Hitachi. The deal also underlines FalconStor's previous comments that heterogeneous data replication is the most attractive feature of virtualization systems. StorageTek estimates that around 25% of the buyers of its BladeStore ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment disk arrays are using the devices to store reference data, and the remainder use the arrays as back-up staging devices or for data protection. In the latter case software from Veritas Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. Corp or Legato (Legato Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.legato.com) A leading provider of storage management and high-availability software founded in 1988 and acquired by EMC Corporation in 2003. Legato software, including Celestra data management (data mining, data migration, etc. Systems Inc can be used to copy data from primary to secondary storage. "But the FalconStor software buys you the ability to replicate over IP or Fibre Channel to a remote site," a StorageTek spokesperson said. When the data replication engine ships it will be priced between $40,000 and $60,000, StorageTek said. Like the FalconStor IP software, it will be based on either a Solaris or Linux server. StorageTek declined to say how much Bladestore hardware it has sold, other than that sales are "on track." FalconStor, which is both a start-up and a listed company listed company n → compañía cotizable listed company n → société cotée en Bourse listed company list n → sells virtualization software only, and like other virtualization suppliers is gaining market traction slowly. It reported revenue of $10.6m last year, up from $5.6m in 2001, with a net loss of $11.5m compared to $10.1m in 2001. |
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