XIOtech Magnitude 3D in Novell Environments Ensures High Availability, Scalability, Simplicity, and Clustered Resilience.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Novell BrainShare Booth P100 EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2004 Customers Including AED AED - Automated Engineering Design , Clark Thomas & Winters, and ICMA ICMA International City/County Management Association ICMA International Computer Music Association ICMA Institute of Certified Management Accountants (Australia) ICMA Institute of Cost and Management Accountants Achieve Reduced Storage Total Cost of Ownership XIOtech Corporation, a storage networking innovator, today announced that customers in Novell(R) environments have been shown to achieve reduced storage total cost of ownership through Magnitude 3D's dynamic simplicity, unmatched resilience, and seamless scale. The benefits of running Magnitude 3D(TM) in a Novell environment were achieved by customers including the Academy for Educational Development (AED), ICMA Retirement Corp., and Clark Thomas & Winters, PC. XIOtech(R) will be demonstrating Magnitude 3D at Novell BrainShare, from March 22nd - 24th in booth P100, at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, UT. "Novell and Magnitude 3D work great together," said Tony Gilfoy, manager, distributed data processing See distributed processing. of ICMA Retirement Corp. "In fact I think there isn't much that can't be done with Magnitude 3D. Our test Novell server has no local disk drives and boots directly from it. We can switch the test environment to any server we need to by just moving the HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. or installing a new one. When a machine dies the same thing goes - just assign the space to your new HBA address and boot the server. In a crisis I'd rather be using Novell with a Magnitude 3D than Novell without it. It's a great combination." "Magnitude 3D is ideal for Novell's clustering environment," said Tony Armendariz, director of information technology, Clark, Thomas & Winters, PC. "As our storage needs grow, Magnitude 3D easily grows along with it. A lot of time is not wasted changing out disk drives or rebuilding servers due to storage shortages. We also have a built-in system for testing and backing up servers and volumes before installing any service packs or new software. Magnitude 3D makes it easy." "Magnitude 3D and Novell give us a system that provides high levels of redundancy, fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. , performance, and 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. ," said Scott Mills, chief information officer and director of IT, AED. "Using nearly every criteria for judging how well Novell and Magnitude 3D work together in our environment (support, integration, cost, performance, ease of management), we are extremely pleased with the solution." XIOtech also announced today support for Novell's SUSE(R) Linux(R) Enterprise Server 8 on Magnitude 3D. Additionally, in September 2003, Magnitude 3D completed "Yes, Tested and Approved" certification with Novell's new operating system, NetWare(R) 6.5, and Novell Cluster Services(TM) 1.7. XIOtech is also a Premier Partner for Novell Users International An association for Novell professionals, made up of more than 300 local NetWare user groups worldwide as well as thousands of networking professionals who are part of Novell's Virtual Community. (NUI (1) (Network User Interface) A user interface for a computer attached to the network. The NUI is designed to work with remote applications and files as easily as local files. ) and a Platinum Sponsor for the annual BrainShare conference. About XIOtech: Founded with the express goal of blending storage technology innovation with enhanced usability, XIOtech challenges the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. of traditional storage networking design. XIOtech has continuously demonstrated technology leadership, chalking up an impressive array of innovations culminating in Magnitude 3D, the industry's first distributed clustered storage solution. Today, Magnitude 3D storage solutions continue to deliver on a fundamental XIOtech promise: enable customers to "do more with less." This demonstrated blend of innovation and usability led Magnitude 3D to recently win the silver award in the "Disk and Disk Subsystems" category of Storage and SearchStorage.com's 2003 Products of the Year Awards. In September 2003 XIOtech also won the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Award--naming XIOtech as the fastest growing technology company in Minnesota with growth in excess of 4900% over the preceding 5 years. Current customers and partners include Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) ., Merrill Lynch, Bechtel, Lucent, Hibernia Bank, and St. Vincent Hospital. XIOtech has also partnered with industry leaders such as Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, Cisco, VERITAS, Brocade, and QLogic. XIOtech is based in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, visit www.XIOtech.com, email info@XIOtech.com, or call toll free 866-472-6764. |
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