Vixel Joins the Fibre Alliance to Drive World's First Fibre Channel Management Standards
New Vixel SAN InSite Instrumental in Deployment of Standards to Customers
BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 1999--Vixel Corporation, the industry's leading provider of Fibre Channel interconnect solutions, today joins EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC - news) and other leading information technology vendors to form a new industry alliance to establish and promote standards for managing Fibre Channel-based storage area networks (SANs).
The Fibre Alliance will benefit Fibre Channel-based solutions by developing and deploying an integrated management interface to gain a high-level view of the storage network, and detailed SAN performance information from across the entire enterprise. Vixel's expertise in SAN interconnect management promises to accelerate deployment of the Fibre Alliance standards to enterprise customers.
Announced yesterday in tandem with the Vixel 8100 true-fabric switch, Vixel's SAN InSite(TM) total connectivity management software is designed to provide unsurpassed serviceability, and will support Fibre Alliance standards. This unique application is the industry's only platform to provide a complete view of the Fibre Channel interconnect in a single, easy-to-use display that manages loop and fabric switches, hubs, and transceivers. Available for all major operating environments, SAN InSite rapidly identifies, isolates, and automatically recovers faults to maximize network uptime and reduce network management costs.
''Effective management of the Fibre Channel network has always been a priority at Vixel, and is illustrated by our leadership in end-to-end management and fault-recovery software,'' states Brian Reed, vice president of marketing for Vixel. ''We are proud to be part of the alliance that will significantly speed the adoption of Fibre Channel storage area networking and will offer IT enterprises the benefit of standards and interoperability.''
''Vixel's precedent-setting commitment to SAN management will aid the deployment of jointly developed standards stemming from our groundbreaking FibreAlliance partnership,'' said Robert Dutkowsky, EMC's Executive Vice President of Markets and Channels. ''Fibre Channel customers will benefit from the enhanced integration among SAN components, resulting in greater network manageability, performance, and efficiency for all of our customers.''
About Vixel Corporation
With more than 500,000-gigabit Fibre Channel ports (hub, switch, point to point) shipped to date, Vixel Corporation is a leading provider of Fibre Channel interconnect solutions. Since 1991, Vixel's solutions have met the data-intensive demands of server applications including CAD/CAM, data warehousing, online banking, real-time medical analysis, and full-motion video. Vixel's complete line of storage interconnect products provides the IT market with solutions to scale systems from entry-level configurations to high-end fabric switching. Vixel's Fibre Channel product family of switches, hubs, transceivers, and the industry's only interconnect management platform to manage the entire loop and switch fabric, provide superior manageability, scalability, and serviceability. Vixel is headquartered at 11911 North Creek Parkway South, Bothell, Washington 98011 and can be contacted by phone at 425/806-5509 or email at marketing@vixel.com. More information about Vixel is located on the company's Web site at vixel.com.
Vixel is a trademark of Vixel Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
For additional information about the EMC Fibre Alliance, refer to the EMC Web site at emc.com.
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Contact:
Vixel Corporation
Chris Lyon, 425/806-4317
clyon@vixel.com
or
Imagio Technology Public Relations
Gina Calabria, 206/625-0252
gina@imagio.com
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