Aussie storage vendor in Fibre Channel first
Aussie storage vendor in Fibre Channel first
Australian owned data storage vendor SLI-Consulting Pty Limited has announced that Emulex, Seagate and Xyratex are to hold the storage industry’s first fully functional 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel demonstration at CEBIT 2004, Europe's largest IT technology trade exhibition, which opened yesterday in Hanover, Germany.
The three companies will display their respective 4 Gb/s products in a fully operational, live working demonstration.
Xyratex’s storage enclosure technology, Seagate’s latest 4 Gb/s enterprise drives and Emulex’s recently-announced InSpeed SOC 422 4 Gb/s embedded storage switches will combine to create a demonstration that will be ready for OEM testing, integration and deployment later in the year.
According to José Goldmann, principal IT consultant, SLI-Consulting, "The storage solutions that will be demonstrated will go well beyond a proof-of-concept. The demonstration will integrate products from three of the industry’s 4 Gb/s leaders into a fully integrated storage system. ,p>“This comes at a time when Asia/Pacific companies desperately need increased storage capacity, management and scalability. These challenges have not been met to date by existing enclosures.
“The demonstration will show the reliability and diagnostic capabilities of the next generation 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel technologies.
“We are proud to be affiliated with these leading storage technology vendors and look forward to delivering these solutions to the Asia/Pacific marketplace once fully released,” said Goldmann.
Goldmann identified a number of key target markets for this technology in the Asia-Pacific.
"The post production industry will be able to apply it in their None Linear Editing (NLE) workstations to address High Definition (HD) work. The broadcasting industry will use it for Video On Demand (VOD) as this will enable them to run hundreds of MPEG2 streams concurrently. Hospitals and clinics will be able to process, retrieve and archive medical images much faster. The Earth Resources industry will be able to cut down reference data retrieval by 50 percent. Weather forecasting bureaus will have much faster access to reference data for their models and improve forecasts. And finally companies involved in Disaster Recovery (DR) would be able to transfer twice as fast over the same data pipe and recover faster if required.
“The technology will also address the demands created by the 40-80 percent growth in data storage demands and will help companies meet the challenge of existing or upcoming data storage legislation for storage of corporate data over several years."
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