(so of course we're down $9)EMC Qualifies Crossroads Systems' Storage Router for Enterprise Storage Network Solutions
EMC Includes Crossroads' Bi-Directional Fibre Channel-to-SCSI Storage Routers for Highly Efficient, Flexible and Reliable Storage Solutions
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000-- Crossroads Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CRDS - news), the leading developer and manufacturer of Fibre Channel storage routers, today announced that EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC - news), the world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, has qualified Crossroads' storage router for use in EMC Enterprise Storage Networks.
By employing the Crossroads' storage router in ESN environments, customers gain highly flexible and reliable information storage systems. The qualified Crossroads' router, now part of EMC's referenced solutions, will be sold through EMC's preferred value-added resellers and distributors for Fibre Channel ESN components and solutions. Polaris Network Services in the United States and ACAL Microelectronics in Europe will be the premier suppliers of Crossroads' storage routers for EMC solutions.
Crossroads will offer its 4200 Fibre Channel-to-SCSI Storage Router for attachment and migration of tape libraries in enterprise storage networks with existing Fibre Channel and SCSI-based RAID. In addition, the Crossroads 4200 storage router includes support for the FibreAlliance Management Information Base (MIB). Crossroads is a member of the EMC-sponsored FibreAlliance, an open industry association that fosters development of Storage Area Network (SAN) management standards.
``EMC's Enterprise Storage Network defines the highest standards for information availability, scalability and management,'' said Brian R. Smith, CEO of Crossroads. ``Crossroads' products are in sync with EMC's standards. With the inclusion of Crossroads' storage router in EMC's ESN solutions, data storage and retrieval will operate at peak efficiency to better manage Internet-driven growth.''
Crossroads' storage routers will enable seamless migration of SCSI tape libraries to Fibre Channel networks allowing customers to expand storage capabilities incrementally while controlling initial costs. The storage router also enables LAN-free backup, which eliminates bottlenecks that plague enterprise network backup operations and allows remote serviceability and management across storage networks.
``More and more customers are depending on the uncompromising quality and tested interoperability of ESNs to consolidate, share and protect their most valuable enterprise information,'' said Jim Rothnie, Senior Vice President of Product Management at EMC. ``When EMC qualifies a partner's products for use in an ESN environment, we are assuring customers that the entire ESN will interoperate seamlessly and work together as a single, flexible, highly reliable solution. Crossroads today joins an elite selection of companies whose products meet EMC's rigorous testing regimen.''
In December of 1998, Crossroads announced an OEM agreement with McDATA to supply the Crossroads 4200 Fibre-Channel-to-SCSI Router. Through this OEM agreement McDATA's EB-1200, Enterprise Fibre Channel Bridge, has also been qualified for use in EMC Enterprise Storage Network solutions. |
