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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (976)	1/19/1999 1:08:00 PM
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Box Hill Joins Forces With Legato Systems and StorageTek to Provide LAN-less Backups Over Storage Area Networks biz.yahoo.com NEW YORK, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Box Hill Systems Corp. (NYSE: BXH - news) has teamed-up with Legato Systems (Nasdaq: LGTO - news) and StorageTek® (Storage Technology Corp.) (NYSE: STK - news) to deliver turnkey Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions to its customers. Box Hill has developed these solutions by integrating existing technologies from all three companies. In delivering SAN solutions, Box Hill is integrating its Fibre Channel-based line of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk (RAID) systems with Legato NetWorker and Legato SmartMedia backup software and StorageTek's selection of tape libraries, Fibre Channel disk and networking components. StorageTek's new Fibre Channel Access Hub can be dynamically configured by Legato's software to manage up to 16 devices, including servers and storage. Box Hill will also be responsible for providing customer service and support. Box Hill's first SAN solution is LAN-less Backup, which offloads backup functions from the front-end local area network (LAN) onto a dedicated SAN. Shifting this data movement to a SAN can dramatically improve the performance of business applications, supporting the requirement that global companies be available around-the-clock to customers and partners. In addition, the companies are collaborating on joint marketing efforts directed toward corporate end-users. The first of these will be a nationwide series of educational forums on SAN technology and its practical application to solving business problems. ''LAN-less Backup'' is the first area of focus. The next forum is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 2, in New York City. For more information on forums scheduled throughout the U.S. visit www.boxhill.com or e-mail sanforum@boxhill.com. ''As a pioneer in the development of Fibre Channel and SAN technologies, we are always striving to provide our customers with cutting-edge technology,'' said Box Hill CEO Philip Black. ''By integrating our FC-AL RAID systems with the Legato and StorageTek product lines, we are able to provide LAN-less Backups to our clients today. LAN-less Backups alleviate the bottleneck to enterprise-wide infrastructure growth. To our customers this means better service while maintaining their bottom line.'' ''Through the partnership of Box Hill, Legato and StorageTek, we are able to address our customers' problems today with solutions that are currently available and tested,'' said Kent Smith, Chief Operating Officer at Legato Systems, Inc. ''Using a combination of Legato NetWorker and Legato SmartMedia our common customers will have a solution which will allow optimum use of their storage assets and free up their production network.'' ''StorageTek has taken an open approach to SANs, enabling our partners, resellers and systems integrators to build interoperable solutions regardless of the server or storage vendor. This enables our long-term channel partners such as Box Hill to augment their products and capabilities with our own to best leverage a customer's existing storage resources. LAN-less Backup is an important step down the path to intelligent, manageable and scalable storage,'' said Jeff Hodgins, Vice President, Global Distribution, StorageTek Multiplatform Business Group. LAN-less Backups LAN-less Backups are facilitated by the connectivity provided by SANs. By allowing disk subsystems and tape libraries to be shared among multiple (UNIX or NT) servers, SANs enable information to be protected without affecting the LAN or overall system performance. The benefits of LAN-less Backups include: Increased Availability By offloading the LAN from backup traffic, system bandwidth is freed for production operations. In addition, the need for a backup window is virtually eliminated. Faster Throughput LAN throughput will not be degraded due to backups, and backups will be completed sooner over a 100+ megabits per second (MB/s) Fibre Channel SAN. Reduced Cost Using the SAN, data center-class tape libraries can be shared, reducing overall cost for the hardware, management and maintenance of multiple smaller libraries. The Storage Area Network (SAN) The SAN is a Fibre Channel-based, high-speed network that supports transfer speeds of up to 200 MB/s and cable lengths up to 10 kilometers. A SAN may be as simple as a dual arbitrated loop (AL) with up to 126 host/device connections, or scaled up to a fabric of switches with virtually unlimited nodes. In addition, by combining the best attributes of fast I/O channels and distributed file systems, the SAN provides improved fault-tolerance, flexibility, performance and system maintenance. The results are increased availability and greater productivity. The SAN is ideal for business-critical, data-intensive applications, such as data warehousing, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), multimedia, Internet/intranet Web servers, imaging, and video production.