(COMTEX) B: EMC Expands World's Largest Interoperability Lab for Stor
B: EMC Expands World's Largest Interoperability Lab for Storage Area Networks
HOPKINTON, Mass., Jun 20, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
E-Lab Testing Center Builds on $1 Billion Investment In Multivendor
Interoperability Testing To Provide Open,
Integrated Enterprise Storage Networks
Expanding the world's most extensive commitment to deliver open, fully
interoperable storage area networks (SANs), EMC Corporation today unveiled the
EMC E-Infostructure Interoperability Program. With more than $1 billion over six
years already invested in storage interoperability testing, EMC is expanding the
industry's largest and longest running interoperability testing program. The
enhanced capabilities enable customers to employ EMC E-Infostructure to harness,
manage and use enterprise information even more rapidly, safely and simply,
regardless of application origin, operating system, interconnect or server.
As part of the EMC E-Infostructure Interoperability Program, EMC has opened
"E-Lab," an enlarged interoperability testing facility located at the heart of
its new 150,000-square-foot product development facility in Hopkinton,
Massachusetts. The E-Lab expands EMC's ability to perform exhaustive stress
tests on all EMC Enterprise Storage Network (ESN) components, including tests of
base qualifications, interoperability and standards compliance. The goal is to
ensure that all components of the multivendor ESN, from storage systems,
servers, switches, hubs, host adapters, bridges and tape systems, to databases,
operating systems and management software, interoperate in the complex, widely
varied storage network environments found at real customer sites.
With more than 35 different types of computing platforms, including mainframes,
open systems servers and operating systems, and dozens of other components
qualified to interoperate within the Enterprise Storage Network, EMC delivers
the world's most open and flexible storage network solutions. The EMC Enterprise
Storage Network extends SAN technology with enhanced connectivity plus business
capabilities that can have a profound impact on how companies access and use
information to gain a marketplace edge.
Qualified E-Lab Tested Suppliers
Vendors' products that pass EMC's extensive interoperability tests can be
designated "EMC E-Lab Tested," signifying that they successfully interoperate
within the multivendor EMC Enterprise Storage Network. Vendors can use the new
EMC E-Lab Tested designation and logo to validate the product's tested
interoperability in the ESN.
Dozens of products from the following 14 vendors are among the initial offerings
qualified as E-Lab Tested under the expanded E-Infostructure Interoperability
Program: Agilent, BROCADE, CNT, Computerm, Crossroads, Emulex, Finisar, Gadzoox,
INRANGE, JNI Corporation, McDATA, Nortel Networks, QLogic and Vixel.
EMC EXPECTS TO ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL E-LAB TESTED SUPPLIERS, SUCH AS ANCOR COMMUNICATIONS, IN THE FUTURE.
To learn more about the EMC E-Infostructure
InteroperabilityProgram, please go to
www.emc.com/e-labtested.
Unparalleled Commitment in Interoperability Testing
Comprehensive interoperability testing is a key element of the EMC
E-Infostructure, a shared foundation of technologies, tools, services and
intellectual capital enabling uninterrupted information flow. By connecting all
their information assets with an E-Infostructure, customers gain continuous,
unlimited access to all their information.
Steve Duplessie, Founder of and Senior Analyst at The Enterprise Storage Group,
said, "Interoperability is the overriding concern of SAN users. By ensuring that
SAN products from multiple best-of-breed vendors work within the Enterprise
Storage Network, EMC assures its customers of functional coherence in complex
SAN infrastructures. Open, tested interoperability adds legitimacy to EMC's
drive to place enterprise storage firmly in the center of the IT universe."
Don Swatik, EMC Vice President of Strategic Planning, said, "EMC's extraordinary
investment in interoperability testing facilities and expertise enables us to
deliver the most open, robust enterprise storage solutions on the market. By
leveraging the laser focus we and our partners have on quality and time to
market, we take the guesswork out of storage networking for our customers while
helping them exploit business opportunities and accelerate their own time to
market."
Click2Send.com, a leading Internet-based file delivery, storage and management
network, employs a heterogeneous EMC Enterprise Storage Network as the
foundation of its fast, reliable, digital desktop-to-desktop file handling
service. David Knight, CTO of Click2Send, said, "We move several terabytes of
customer information among our corporate systems daily, worldwide. Our customers
demand 'plug-and-play' interoperability between their enterprise computing
applications and our network infrastructure, in virtually realtime. We chose EMC
as our enterprise SAN partner because of EMC's commitment to customer service,
product quality and interoperability testing at all levels. EMC ensures that we
can stay focused on expanding our business at Internet speed."
The EMC Enterprise Storage Network provides a single infrastructure that
exploits the power of information regardless of its location. ESN comprises a
dedicated, high-speed network that uses storage area networking (SAN)
technology, network attached storage (NAS) capabilities, and dense wavelength
division multiplexing (DWDM) technology, enabling customers to weave together
heterogeneous storage, switches, hubs and servers into a single, easily managed,
centralized information infrastructure. ESNs converge distributed information
from departments and business units throughout the enterprise, and from remote
locations over local or wide area networks.
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems,
software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a
connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at
www.emc.com.
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