COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation
(NASDAQ:EMLX), an industry leader in fibre channel products and technology,
today announced that it will demonstrate LAN-free tape backup on a fibre
channel network during Fall Networld+Interop. The fibre channel demonstration
utilizes the Emulex LightPulse(TM) LP7000E Fibre Channel PCI Host Bus Adapter
and the LH5000 Digital Fibre Hub, Scalar 218 DLT tape library, and FCR 100
Fibre Channel/SCSI router from ADIC (NASDAQ:ADIC), and Computer Associates'
ARCserveIT Enterprise for Windows NT.
"Fibre channel provides a cost effective, high-performance, scalable
solution for storage management making it ideal for tape backup. With Fibre
Channel Arbitrated Loop, backups can be performed in a storage area network,
therefore eliminating backup data from LAN traffic," said Mike Kane, Emulex
director of fibre channel marketing. "We're excited to team with storage
management industry leaders such as Computer Associates and ADIC to
demonstrate fibre channel in action," he added.
The Emulex LightPulse family of fibre channel products includes the
LP7000E with on-board data buffering to maintain high levels of data
throughput performance in large configurations or over extended link
distances. Industry standard benchmark testing has shown LP7000E throughput
performance over 10 kilometer links to be more than double that of competitive
products. Designed to support mission critical enterprise applications in
networked storage including tape backup, the LP7000E provides the industry's
widest set of operating features including support for all fibre channel
topologies and classes of service, and both SCSI and LAN protocols.
The LightPulse family also includes the recently introduced LH5000 Digital
Fibre Hub providing a revolutionary new tool for OEMs, system integrators and
administrators of fibre channel systems. The LH5000 Digital Fibre Hub
self-healing features include automatic fault isolation and recovery, fault
analysis, and performance analysis and tuning providing increased fibre
channel arbitrated loop performance, manageability and availability critical
in tape backup applications such as CA's market-leading storage management
solution, ARCserveIT.
"CA worked closely with Emulex and ADIC to recently launch the Enterprise
Library Option (ELO) for ARCserveIT Enterprise Edition," said Gil Arbel, CA
vice president of enterprise management marketing. "We are pleased to team up
again to demonstrate how ELO illustrates fibre channel's ability to deliver
high performance and scalable storage solutions." ARCserveIT Enterprise
Library Option provides enhanced scalability and efficient utilization of
storage resources by sharing high-capacity, higher cost devices across Storage
Area Networks.
"ADIC is pleased to be working with Emulex and Computer Associates both to
develop and to demonstrate next-generation solutions for sharing storage
resources in Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks," said Jonathan Otis, ADIC
vice president of product management. "The performance and scalability
advantages are critical for all of our customers. We are offering hardware
support for fibre channel backup through our FCR Series of fibre channel-SCSI
routers and through our fibre channel-ready tape libraries."
About ADIC
Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, ADVANCED DIGITAL INFORMATION
CORPORATION has been providing data storage solutions since its founding in
1983. With an installed base of more than 30,000 libraries, ADIC is a leading
drive-independent supplier of automated tape libraries used to backup and
archive electronic data in client/server network computing environments. The
Company offers the broadest range of tape library products in the industry,
backed by a worldwide field sales and service network. Marketed under the
ADIC and EMASS names as well as those of OEM partners, these products are
available with DLT, D2, half-inch, AIT (Sony), 4mm and 8mm tape drive
technologies and are supported by leading suppliers of backup and storage
management software products. The Company's own storage management software
is an integrated family of software products including Hierarchical Storage
Management (HSM) and high performance direct access archive software, as well
as volume management control software for libraries. During 1997, the Company
introduced a family of fibre channel routers for use in Storage Area Networks.
In 1998, the Company announced a significant OEM supply partnership with Dell
Computer Corporation (NASDAQ:DELL). Further product information is available
via the internet at adic.com and emass.com. |
