-FIBRE CHANNEL ASSOCIATION EUROPE: Fibre Channel technology takes case to public -- Fibre Channel Day
Presswire - October 21, 1998 13:56
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 October 1998-FIBRE CHANNEL ASSOCIATION EUROPE: Fibre Channel technology takes case to public with 'Fibre Channel Day' (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
* British Airways and Debis explain how Fibre Channel technology is helping their businesses. * Leading advocate of Fibre Channel technology, Dr Ed Frymoyer discusses how the technology has developed to date. * Leading blue-chip corporations to attend.
Fibre Channel technology's case for becoming the keystone of fast, flexible information transfer into the next millennium, will be presented to the IT directors of leading blue-chip corporations this Friday 23rd October with 'Fibre Channel Day'. Hosted by the Fibre Channel Association Europe, a pan-European body set up to promote Fibre Channel technology, 'Fibre Channel Day' is the first major Fibre Channel event in Europe and will look at industry developments and customer implementation sites, such as British Airways and Debis.
One of the leading Fibre Channel industry experts and chairman of the Fibre Channel Group in the US, Dr Ed Frymoyer of EMF Associates. will talk about how the technology has developed and how the marketplace for Fibre Channel products has grown. Other speakers will include Clive Druett, European High End Systems Technology Consultant at IBM; Don McNicoll, Director of Storage Architectures at Hitachi Data Systems and Dilip Maher, Manager of European Distributor Operations at CNT International. Topics covered will include the Data Centre use of Fibre Channel. Storage Area Networks and the Impact on Networking.
The afternoon session will include two key reference sites at British Airways and Debis where it will be explained how Fibre Channel has been deployed in their organisations, the challenges, the applications and the technology. Dennis Talluto, Technology Manager for Fabric and Channel Architectures at EDS, will then talk about how corporations can integrate Fibre Channel across the enterprise.
Martin Gandar, associate consultant at the Butler Group will provide an objective overview of the market and there will also be a personal summary of Fibre Channel, the stage it has reached today and the future possibilities by Nick Booth, Deputy Editor of Times Interface.
Paul Talbut, chairman of the Fibre Channel Association Europe, said: "Fibre Channel Day' is a splendid forum for a technology that has finally entered the mainstream of high-speed data communications, and is now the enabling technology of choice for applications such as Storage Area Networks. Never before in Europe has there been such an event that has gathered together such a diverse collection of Fibre Channel vendors and users. The event will succeed in persuading many corporations that Fibre Channel can provide the high-performance, reliable, low cost communications required today"
'Fibre Channel Day' is taking place on Friday October 23rd at the Renaissance Hotel near Heathrow Airport. There will also be an accompanying exhibition which will include leading Fibre Channel technology product vendors, such as Acal Electronics, Aeon Communications, Aerotech World Trade, Amdahl Corporation, Brocade Communications, Clariion, Compaq CNT International, DLI GmbH, Emulex Europe, Gadzoox, HPS, Methode Fibre Optics Europe, Qlogic, Sagitta, Raidtec Corporation, Storage Technology, Vixel and Xyratex.
Notes to editors: Fibre Channel is a high-speed data transfer technology that was developed as a standard in America by a committee operating under the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Fibre Channel is a highly-reliable, gigabit interconnect technology which allows for simultaneous communications among workstations, mainframes, servers, data storage systems, and other peripherals.
Fibre Channel is a practical and inexpensive means of quickly transferring data between workstations, mainframes, supercomputers, desktop computers, storage devices and other peripherals. Fibre Channel's success is based on its transfer speeds, reliability, flexible topology and multi-protocols.
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