To: ShamukE who wrote (24107 ) 9/15/1999 9:02:00 PM From: trendmastr Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 29386
I found this of interest because of the Texas home of Compaq: News To print this story September 15, 1999 17:06 Gadzoox San Product's Play Integral Part of Novell Netware Cluster Services to Win Best in Show Award At Networld+interop SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1999-- Novell's NetWare Cluster Services for NetWare 5 Networked By Gadzoox SAN Awarded Best In Show for Network Application Software Gadzoox(R) Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZOOX), a leading provider of SAN (storage area network) products, today announced that Novell's NetWare Cluster Services for NetWare 5 awarded the Best In Show award at Fall Networld+Interop (N+I) in Atlanta. The award winning multinode clustering system featured Novell NetWare Cluster Services and NetWare 5, Compaq servers and storage, and Gadzoox Storage Area Network products supplied to Compaq under OEM contract. Gadzoox SAN products have been instrumental as the development platform for Novell NetWare Cluster Services. The companies are pleased with their ability to rapidly deliver the industry leading capabilities recognized by this award. The superior scalability, ease of integration, manageability and high availability design of Gadzoox' Capellix SAN switch as well as the Gibraltar product line are ideal for the demanding needs of NetWare Cluster Services e-business applications. The award winning NetWare Cluster Services solution is being demonstrated at the Networld+Interop show being held this week in Atlanta, Georgia. The high availability system designed for e-business and other mission critical networking applications is being featured in a production environment in the Novell Operations Center (NOC) which provides the Internet and email services for the Novell Connecting Points throughout the N+I exhibition halls. The system consists of industry leading products including Novell's NetWare Cluster Services and NetWare 5, Compaq Proliant servers and StorageWorks disk arrays, and Gadzoox SAN products marketed by Compaq. Gadzoox' industry leading SAN switches and hubs were used extensively by Novell during the development and testing of NetWare Cluster Services. Designed for superior scalability, ease of integration, manageability and high availability, Gadzoox offers the broadest range of storage area networking products that are being referenced by Novell for NetWare Cluster Services. For the new generation of multinode clusters that will reach up to 32-nodes, Gadzoox' Capellix modular SAN switch is an ideal fit that can be configured with up to 34-ports and provides the highest performance, highest scalability SAN switching solution in the industry. "The release of mainstream multinode clustering systems, such as Novell's NetWare Cluster Services, creates a key opportunity for the deployment of storage area networks," said Dave Tang, Gadzoox Networks vice president of marketing. "In partnership with Novell, we have developed advanced SAN solutions that combine the high system availability of server clusters with the high data availability of SAN-based storage management to create an architecture for more comprehensive business continuance solutions."