2020 JIRO will be SUNW answer to how to manage the SAN. THey have JavaOne in early June. ANCR WILL be there....
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
www.Jiro.com - Participate in the community.
Jiro? at JavaOne Conference - See what we're doing at the conference.
Jiro Technology Downloads - Download the latest release.
Visit our booth at
June 6?9, 2000
San Francisco
Get Ready for Jiro? Technology!
Now you can get more out of your storage systems and spend less time managing distributed networks. Sun's soon to be released Jiro technology 1.0, on display at the JavaOneSM conference and available in late June, frees you from the limitations of single-purpose storage systems and gives you a more efficient, less expensive way to manage networks in the dot-com age.
See Jiro Technology At Work At the JavaOneSM Conference
Jiro technology will be featured prominently at this year's JavaOneSM conference, June 6-9 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Ancor, Creekpath, Crossroads, Gadzoox, Hitachi, Imation, Legato, Sun and Veritas will demonstrate an automated storage management solution using Jiro technology and those companies products. You can get the technical details at the Jiro technology JavaU course and sessions by Sun and other Jiro technology community members.
Jiro Technology Does for Storage Networks What Java? Technology Did for Software
Jiro technology solves a fundamental problem the storage industry has grappled with for years: how to manage storage resources on increasingly complex, diverse, and distributed storage networks. Keeping up with compatibility issues alone can be like managing a spider's web, and constantly creating new interfaces for new devices and software is a drain on precious IT resources. Sun has recognized that what customers need is a storage management solution that can work with any device or software, running any operating system, on any network--much the same way Java technology enables any applet to run on any device. So Sun seized the initiative and led the first industry-wide development of a storage management specification based on Java technology, the Federated Management Architecture specification, defined under the Java Community ProcessSM program. Based on this industry defined FMA specification, Jiro technology makes it easy for developers to create intelligent management services that automate tasks and help eliminate error-prone, time-consuming manual administration. Jiro technology also makes it simpler to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot distributed network resources.
Enthusiastic Reception
Jiro technology has been strongly embraced by storage industry leaders, including Ancor Communications, ATL Products, BMC Software, Bridges for Islands, CNT, CDS, Crossroads, CrosStor, DPT, ECCS, Exabyte, Fujitsu, Gadzoox, G2 Networks, Hitachi, Imation, Legato, Pathlight, Plasmon, Quantum, Prisa Networks, Reservoir Labs, Seagate, SER, Solid Data Systems, Spectra Logic, StorageTek, Tandberg, Terascape, Tracer, VERITAS, and Vixel.
"Ancor is committed to working closely with Sun to help make heterogeneous storage networks easier to manage," said Cal Nelson, Ancor's president. "The arrival of Jiro technology development tools will enable Ancor switches to interoperate with other vendors' Jiro technology-enabled products, thereby reducing the complexity and cost of network storage management."
"Jiro technology will have a significant impact on our ability to provide storage network-based management services," said Brad Rubin, chief technology officer for Imation. "We've already begun incorporating Jiro code into prototype services. Our intent is to be Jiro technology experts providing a range of services such as building Jiro management facades and Jiro technology-enabled components and applications."
"Jiro technology is available today enabling developers to begin creating their interoperable dynamic management services," said Denise Shiffman, vice president of marketing for Sun Network Storage. "Jiro technology-enabled applications will give customers viable solutions for dynamically managing complex, distributed environments such as heterogeneous storage networks."
Preliminary Release Available for Download
Jiro technology developers release 0.9 was made available in February, 2000, and can be downloaded free of charge at www.jiro.com under the Sun Community Source License (SCSL). In addition to Jiro technology source code, developers have access to tutorials, technical FAQs and discussion boards. Look forward to the Jiro Technology 1.0 release at the end of June.
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WHAT JIRO TECHNOLOGY MEANS TO YOU
Executives Developers
Freedom to chooose best-of-breed storage solutions
Improved efficiency from existing storage resources
Cost savings through automation of storage management
Higher service-level availability resulting from better management practices and self-diagnostic capabilities
Reduced development cost: no more need for point-to-point development
Reduced management costs with increased management control
A complete, end-to-end solution is available from a trusted storage industry leader
Industry involvement means continuing innovation, evolution and enhancement of Jiro technology
Simple creation of storage applications that can be deployed in diverse, distributed environments
The ability to focus efforts on creating new high-value services rather than porting management interfaces to multiple platforms
No need to recreate standard infrastructure such as events, logging, lookup, scheduling, security, and transactions--they're all provided
Rapid deployment of solutions and easy upgrades
Easy internationalization: provides localized version of information at the point of consumption
Source is free for research and development use; binaries are free for download and unmodified redistribution
Network Administrators End Users
Time savings through automating routine administrative tasks and policy-based management
Reduction in cost and complexity of overseeing a highly distributed environment
Increased management control
Greater interoperability through platform-independent components and interfaces
Easier, more reliable access to information
Higher service-level uptime
More options for accessing needed data
Lets watch and see who steps onto the JIRO platform to expand the SAN and what can attach to it. This looks to be part of the June 14 deal.
Where JIRO will be the next few months.....
May 2000
EuroStorage 2000
Barcelona, Spain
May 14-17
SAN Conference
San Jose, CA
May 30 - June 1
-Jiro/Storage Management Software Presentation
June 2000
GartnerStorage Conference
Florida
June 5-7
JavaOne
San Francisco, CA
June 5-8
NetworkStorage 2000
Monterey, CA
June 19-21
Seems like this initiative could work pretty well? |
