Xiotech Announces Support for Novell Open Enterprise Server.EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn. -- Xiotech Corporation today announced support for Novell Open Enterprise Server Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) is the successor product to Novell, Inc. NetWare, and is a NOS, or network operating system. Originally released in March of 2005, the current release is OES 2. (OES) on Magnitude 3D(TM). Magnitude 3D's ease of use and clustered architecture make it the ideal storage solution for small-to-medium size enterprises (SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. ) planning on upgrading to OES. Xiotech(R), an early OES beta partner, continues to work with Novell to test and certify OES in advance of its official release and will announce full certification soon. In addition, Xiotech is a Gold Sponsor of the Novell OES Evaluation Kit, being distributed to 25,000 Novell BrainShare and LinuxWorld attendees, as well as 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. members and channel partners. Xiotech is the leading provider of storage solutions for Novell centric enterprises. By deploying Magnitude 3D with Novell OES, SMEs can achieve greater application availability and faster recovery times due to the Magnitude 3D's unique architecture. Magnitude 3D also simplifies the process of operating multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. (for instance NetWare and SUSE LINUX A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet Another Setup Tool (YaST), which is used to install, configure and maintain the OS, as ) without requiring special host-based software. In addition, Magnitude 3D eliminates the planned downtime associated with server maintenance and repairs, ensuring swift deployments and upgrades and uninterrupted data availability. Finally, Magnitude 3D will fully support Novell Storage Services Novell Storage Services (NSS) is a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system and recently ported to SUSE Linux. It has some unique features that make it especially useful for, but not limited to, setting up shared volumes on a file server in a Local Area and Cluster Services in OES. "With Novell Open Enterprise Server and Magnitude 3D, customers can take advantage of excellent ease of use and availability at reduced total cost of ownership," said Ed Anderson, Novell vice president of platform product marketing. "Xiotech continues to enable customers users to draw more value from their Novell investment." "Running Magnitude 3D with OES is the ideal solution for enterprises looking to benefit from a secure, open operating environment" said Mike Stolz, Xiotech executive vice president of marketing. "By supporting OES, Xiotech is again demonstrating its commitment to making storage networking as simple as possible to Novell Linux enterprises." Xiotech will be demonstrating it storage solutions at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is a conference and trade show that focuses on open source and Linux solutions in the information technology sector. The show is owned and managed by IDG World Expo, a business unit of International Data Group (IDG). running February 14th through February 17th in booth P10 at the Hynes Convention Center The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center located in Boston's Back Bay has 193,000 square feet (0 m) of exhibit space and can accommodate up to four concurrent events. in Boston, MA. During LinuxWorld the company is also hosting a panel discussion, "The Simplicity Imperative", at 8:30 am on February 17th at the Marriott Copley. Featured speakers include Novell's Richard Jones, Paul Dupuis of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Howard Alt of Enapta, Inc., and Robert Peglar of Xiotech. Support for Novell OES is the latest step in Xiotech's continued partnership with Novell. Magnitude 3D was one of the first SANs to complete "Yes, Tested and Approved" certification with Novell NetWare 6.5, and Novell Cluster Services 1.7. Xiotech is also a premier Partner for Novell Users International. Xiotech will complete full OES certification in the first quarter of 2005. About Xiotech Xiotech(R) makes information storage and management as simple as possible(TM). Since 1996 nearly 1500 small-to-medium enterprises have taken advantage of Xiotech's easy-to-use and highly resilient storage management solutions. The company's products include Magnitude 3D(TM), Magnitude 3D 1000e, and TimeScale timescale Noun the period of time within which events occur or are due to occur timescale n → délais mpl timescale time (Brit) n (TM) Rapid Restore. Current customers 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 also partners with industry leaders such as Brocade, Cisco, McDATA, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and VERITAS. In 2004 Xiotech achieved record 25% revenue growth and was named the fastest growing technology company in Minnesota by Deloitte & Touche in 2003. Over the preceding five years Xiotech has grown almost 5,000%. Xiotech is based in Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, visit www.xiotech.com, email info@Xiotech.com, or call toll free 1.866.472.6764. Xiotech, Magnitude, Magnitude 3D, REDI Software, Zero Server Footprint, Dimensional Storage Cluster, SAN in a BOX, TimeScale, as simple as possible and GEORAID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xiotech Corporation. All other trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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