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Rubrik: World-wide News/Products & News SNIA:
Ease Of Deployment And Lower Cost In Building Heterogeneous SANs Storage Industry's First All-Inclusive Multivendors Switch (26.04.03)
- Leading storage networking vendors of the SNIA Supported Solutions Forum
(SSF) debuted the industry's most comprehensive demonstration of
interoperable Fibre Channel switches and directors at Storage Networking
World Spring 2003, April 14-17 in Scottsdale, AZ. The demonstration featured
heterogeneous storage area networks (SANs) built with switches and storage
devices from SNIA SSF member companies including Cisco Systems, EMC
Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM Corporation, INRANGE Technologies,
McDATA Corp., QLogic Corporation, and Sun Microsystems. The SSF's mission is
to test and certify multi-vendor storage networking interoperability
solutions and ensure they are mutually supported among the participating
vendors. The availability of multi-vendor SAN switch solution sets is
expected to follow the SSF's demonstration at SNW by summer 2003.
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In the
quest for multi-vendor storage solutions, switch interoperability is a key
element in building and managing heterogeneous SANs. Multi-vendor switch
interoperability enables IT professionals to source, select, and interconnect
devices from different storage vendors within the same fabric. End users are
also able to utilise multi-vendor switch interoperability to extend their SAN
to include "edge products" such as IP storage routers and blade servers
which feature embedded Fibre Channel switches. "The
success and support of this multi-vendor switch demonstration represents a
new era in storage networking – major vendors have put aside their
competitiveness to work for the good of the customer and the industry,"
said Phil Mills, chairman of the SNIA Supported Solutions Forum. "The
SSF's certification of interoperable solutions coupled with the complete
support of participating vendors, takes the risk out of building and managing
heterogeneous storage networks. Ultimately, IT administrators will have the
ability and flexibility to deploy best-of-breed components that best meet
their specific financial and technical requirements." More
information on SNIA Forums can be found at http://www.snia.org/join/forum_membership.
For more information regarding the interoperability demonstration, visit the
SNIA home page at http://www.snia.org. For
more information on Storage Networking World 2003, visit http://www.snwusa.com/phoenix_2003. The SNIA is co-founder of Storage Networking World EuroStorage event, to be held in Cannes, France from 3-6 June 2003. EuroStorage is a vendor-neutral source of information and delivers well-founded knowledge. The conference provides objective answers to strategic and critical questions. Storage Networking World is an established forum, which demonstrates the possibilities as well as the limits of storage-technology to the business audience. Last year, Storage Networking World EuroStorage attracted more than 700 delegates. For more information please visit EuroStorage on-line at www.snweurope.com. (ma) SNIA Europe Tel. (0033-1) 47490623 or Tel. (0033-1) 34584672 E-Mail: euroinfo@snia.org Web: www.snia-europe.org SNIA Deutscher
Kontakt Tel. (06131) 84-6071, Fax (06131) 84-6592 E-Mail: euroilab@snia.org Web: www.snia-europe.org |
