Well looks like our old friend EMC is at the center of this fiber channel thing too :) I am also familiar with LGTO and VRTS at the bottom of the posting... good companies.
Tuesday February 2, 8:08 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Twelve Industry Leaders to Develop World's First Fibre
Channel Management Standard
The FibreAlliance Will Implement Common Approach for Managing
Fibre Channel-Based Storage Networks
HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 1999-- EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC - news), the world's leading
provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, today announced formation of the FibreAlliance. The goal of the
FibreAlliance is to develop and implement common methods for managing heterogeneous Fibre Channel-based networks of
storage systems and computer servers, which are also known as storage area networks, or SANs. Already, EMC and the 11
charter members of the FibreAlliance, each a leading information technology provider, have made significant progress in drafting
the engineering specification on which these methods will be based. Later this spring, the FibreAlliance will submit this
specification to independent standards bodies for consideration as an industry-wide standard.
This groundbreaking initiative will provide customers of FibreAlliance members enhanced integration and higher functionality
among Fibre Channel-based products, resulting in simplified management, enhanced cost effectiveness and more rapid market
deployment of SANs.
The charter members of the FibreAlliance are leading providers of Fibre Channel-based hubs, switches, host bus adapters,
routers, servers and management software, including:
Ancor Communications, Inc., (NASDAQ:ANCR - news) www.ancor.com
Emulex Corporation, (NASDAQ:EMLX - news) www.emulex.com
Gadzoox Networks, www.gadzoox.com
G2 Networks, Inc., www.g2networks.com
Hewlett-Packard Company's (NYSE:HWP - news) OpenView Business Unit and
Enterprise Storage Solutions Division, www.hp.com
JNI, www.jni.com
Legato Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ:LGTO - news) www.legato.com
McDATA Corporation, www.mcdata.com
QLogic Corporation, www.qlc.com
VERITAS Software Corporation, (NASDAQ:VRTS - news) www.veritas.com
Vixel Corporation, www.vixel.com |
