XIOtech Announces First Synchronous Remote Data Replication to 120 Kilometers
Partnership With Finisar Allows Xiotech to Deliver the Longest Distance Synchronous Remote Data Replication Capabilities for SANs
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- XIOtech® Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate (NYSE: SEG - news), and a Storage Area Network (SAN) pioneer, today announced that it will partner with Finisar Corporation (Nasdaq: FNSR - news) in order to offer its MAGNITUDE SAN customers the industry's only long-distance, synchronous remote data replication capabilities. Finisar is a leading provider of fibre optic subsystems that enable high-speed data communications over Fibre Channel SANs.
The combination of XIOtech's MAGNITUDE SAN and new REDI SAN Links Replicator software (see release dated August 21, 2000), and Finisar's FLX- 2000 Optical Links Extender create the industry's longest distance synchronous remote data replication -- up to 120 kilometers (km), or approximately 75 miles. The ability to access or replicate data at long distances enables users to expand their backup capabilities, migrate data remotely, plan for disaster recovery, and efficiently utilize IT resources across the WAN.
Synchronous data replication ensures data integrity by allowing source and copied storage volumes to remain in sync with one another. Other storage vendors who offer a remote data replication capability do so with asynchronous copies over ATM lines, which means that at any given time, data may be out of sync between source and copy, making it vulnerable to corruption.
REDI SAN Links Replicator's ability to copy data remotely at a rate of over 1GB/min., coupled with Finisar's FLX-2000 Optical Link Extender, which has a transfer rate of 1Gb/sec., make it possible to efficiently copy large amounts of data in a very short amount of time. For example, XIOtech has demonstrated in its Enterprise REDI Solutions Lab that a 10GB data volume located on one MAGNITUDE SAN can be copied to another MAGNITUDE SAN located 50 km away in less than 51/2 minutes.
According to John McArthur, vice president of Storage Research at IDC, there is a tremendous need for this capability in the open systems market. ``Synchronous remote data replication provides the highest level of assurance that data is always secure and available. Asynchronous data replication, while widely used, doesn't offer the same level of data integrity and lengthens the application recovery process. The pairing of XIOtech and Finisar technologies gives open systems users the combined benefits of synchronous copy and distance. The 120-kilometer distance enabled by Finisar extends REDI SAN Links Replicator capabilities well beyond campus environments.''
Richard Blaschke, executive vice president of marketing for XIOtech, said, ``About 90 percent of businesses who have installed SANs need remote data replication capabilities of 120 kilometers or less. Our new partnership with Finisar will enable us to fully cater to this sweet spot in the open systems market. Our ability to improve performance through our storage virtualization technology combined with the synchronous remote data replication capabilities of REDI SAN Links Replicator and the distance support of Finisar's Optical Link Extender hits the mark for the majority of businesses using SAN technology.''
``We are proud to be a part of this ground-breaking SAN solution,'' said Ron O'Neal, applications engineer at Finisar Corporation. ``We developed our fibre channel extender technology with the idea that it could help facilitate new and exciting technology advances. This advance in remote data replication for the open systems market is a significant step toward the promise of 100 percent data availability for SAN users.''
About Finisar
Finisar Corporation is a leading provider of fiber optic subsystems and network performance test systems which enable high-speed data communications over Gigabit Ethernet local area networks (LANs), Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), metropolitan data network applications (MANs), and CATV. The Company is focused on the application of digital fiber optics to provide a broad line of high-performance, reliable, value-added optical subsystems for networking and storage equipment manufacturers. The Company's headquarters are located at 1308 Moffett Park Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. For more information, visit the Company's web site at finisar.com.
About XIOtech
XIOtech Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate, designs, manufactures and markets complete Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions tailored to the information storage needs of its customers. The XIOtech MAGNITUDE SAN is based on XIOtech's exclusive Real-Time Data Intelligence (REDI) Storage Architecture, which was the first in the industry to incorporate storage virtualization. The MAGNITUDE, along with the company's comprehensive suite of application-specific software, makes storing, managing, safeguarding and retrieving data on heterogeneous computing platforms easy and cost-effective. Founded in 1995, the company's growing list of customers include Fortune 2000 firms in the fields of finance, insurance, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, government, e-commerce and imaging. XIOtech is an active participant in the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) through its parent company Seagate, which is a voting member. For more information, visit XIOtech's Web site at www.xiotech.com, call 612-828-5980, or email info@xiotech.com.
About Seagate
Seagate is a leading provider of the Internet Infrastructure enabling people to store, access, and manage information. The Company is committed to providing best-in-class products to help people get information when, where and how they want it. Seagate is the world's largest manufacturer of disc drives, magnetic discs and read-write heads, an innovator in tape drives, Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions and a leading developer of Business Intelligence software. Seagate can be found around the globe and at seagate.com. For automated news, stock and financial information by phone, dial toll-free 877-SEG-NYSE. Outside the U.S. and Canada, dial 760-704-4368.
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