NEWS: CNT UltraNet Storage Director Named Hot Product of the Year
Innovative Product Selected for its Leadership in Enabling
Storage Area Network (SAN) Solutions
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Computer Network Technology (CNT) (Nasdaq: CMNT) today announced that its UltraNet Storage Director was named by Data Communications magazine, as a Hot Product of the Year for storage under the local area network (LAN) gear category. The UltraNet Storage Director is a high-speed switching platform that allows users to safely move and share data among diverse servers and storage systems. This industry-leading interconnection of storage devices breaks traditional storage barriers by enabling fast, cost-effective server and storage consolidation among IBM OS/390, Microsoft Windows NT, and open systems (UNIX) storage system platforms.
Every January, Data Communications chooses the Hot Products of the Year based on the latest trends in technology. Selected by the publication's editorial staff, the award winners are picked because they boast a key technology differentiator that sets them apart from the competition. That key differentiator must result in clear and quantifiable financial benefits and the claims regarding those benefits must be confirmed through end-user verification.
"It is an honor to be selected by Data Communications for this award," said Mark Knittel, vice president of marketing and business development at CNT. "CNT included WAN interfaces in the UltraNet Storage Director, in addition to a wide range of LAN interfaces, because we believe an important aspect of the Storage Area Network (SAN) is the ability to move and share information across any distance. This benefit obviously helped us gain this recognition."
About UltraNet Storage Director
The SAN is a high-speed network that establishes a direct connection between storage devices, thereby externalizing storage from the server and allowing information to be shared among multiple "host" servers without affecting performance of the primary network. The CNT UltraNet Storage Director is a multi-gigabit switching platform that provides a high- performance SAN infrastructure with support for Fibre Channel, SCSI and ESCON technology, along with interoperability between these different channel architectures. Shipping since October 1997, the product is available worldwide in 12-slot or 6-slot models ranging in price from $80,000 to $250,000 (U.S.), and is covered under a one-year warranty,
The UltraNet Storage Director offers an open architecture incorporating industry standard hardware, network protocols, management and operating software to provide a tightly integrated, fault-tolerant, and highly manageable platform for use in mission-critical storage networking applications. It supports a variety of storage applications including disk mirroring, backup/restore, archive/retrieve, data migration, shared storage and shared data. The product also leverages high-speed networks with support for ATM, T3/E3 and FDDI.
About Computer Network Technology (CNT)
Computer Network Technology (Nasdaq: CMNT), based in Minneapolis, Minn., is a leading provider of high-performance networking solutions that allow enterprise and open systems environments to share data and information. The company's Channelink(R) and UltraNet(R) product lines offer high-speed open systems connectivity, access to legacy data and guaranteed data integrity for applications such as remote storage, mirroring, and disaster recovery. In addition, its Apertus and Brixton(R) product lines offer unique Internet access solutions. The company's products are sold worldwide through a direct sales force and a network of authorized distributors. For more information, visit CNT's web site at cnt.com, or call 1-800-638-8324 (U.S.) or 612-797-6000 (International).
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01/08/98 09:12 EST prnewswire.com |
