Compaq Uses FC-IP Storage Technology for Business Continuance
📅 - Compaq Computer Corporation (compaq.com/storage), anenterprise storage company, today announced the availability of qualifiedFibre Channel and Internet Protocol (FC-IP) technology to implement globaldata replication networks.
Compaq customer The South Financial Group (thesouthfinancialgroup.com) uses the storage networks using FC-IP technology to achieve long-distance data replication. "In designing our business continuance strategy, we needed data recovery assurance and we wanted it to work within our existing ITinfrastructure," said Hart Raley, vice president of client services, SouthFinancial.
Compaq now provides customers with a SAN-based business continuance solutionthat leverages existing IP networks and allows users to implement solutionsthat can extend across the city, country, or around the world.The SANworks DRM FC-IP solution offers customers more flexible ways tomanage their business continuance systems. By enabling remote replication ofdata in realtime, Compaq offers customers a disaster tolerant,no-single-point-of-failure SAN solution based on StorageWorks Fibre Channelcontrollers. By using their existing IT infrastructures, customers canleverage regional SANs as recovery sites within the broader national orglobal infrastructure using IP networking.
Customers may begin to broaden the reach of data replication from othercompanies as well. Compaq recently announced data replication solutions forOracle and Giant Loop Networks. The company has also broadened support forMetro Area Networks by introducing support for additional Wave DivisionMultiplexing technology from Cisco Systems and Controlware.
Compaq demonstrated DRM FC-IP technology by linking the SAN across threecontinents in Sept. 2001. Now available for customers, this technologyprovides a production-ready application of the Global Replication Network asdefined in Compaq's ENSA-2 roadmap.
"As Compaq brings its FC-IP offering to the market, it also brings a desireto fully test remote copy solutions," said Dianne McAdam, analyst,Illuminata, Inc. "This is not easy stuff. To have completed interoperabilitytesting with three partners gives the user community alternatives whenconsidering the addition of FC-IP-based solutions to their businesscontinuance plans."
Compaq Enterprise Storage Group and its storage technology partners havecompleted interoperability testing for StorageWorks FC-IP and WDM in WAN andMAN networking solutions. CNT, SANcastle and SAN Valley products havecompleted StorageWorks FC-IP interoperability testing, have proved fullycompatible with StorageWorks arrays, and are ready for implementation. CiscoSystems and Controlware Inc. products have also completed rigorousinteroperability testing of Wave Division Multiplexing and are ready forproduction use.
Compaq customer The South Financial Group (thesouthfinancialgroup.com) uses the storage networks using FC-IP technology to achieve long-distance data replication. "In designing our business continuance strategy, we needed data recovery assurance and we wanted it to work within our existing ITinfrastructure," said Hart Raley, vice president of client services, SouthFinancial.
Compaq now provides customers with a SAN-based business continuance solutionthat leverages existing IP networks and allows users to implement solutionsthat can extend across the city, country, or around the world.The SANworks DRM FC-IP solution offers customers more flexible ways tomanage their business continuance systems. By enabling remote replication ofdata in realtime, Compaq offers customers a disaster tolerant,no-single-point-of-failure SAN solution based on StorageWorks Fibre Channelcontrollers. By using their existing IT infrastructures, customers canleverage regional SANs as recovery sites within the broader national orglobal infrastructure using IP networking.
Customers may begin to broaden the reach of data replication from othercompanies as well. Compaq recently announced data replication solutions forOracle and Giant Loop Networks. The company has also broadened support forMetro Area Networks by introducing support for additional Wave DivisionMultiplexing technology from Cisco Systems and Controlware.
Compaq demonstrated DRM FC-IP technology by linking the SAN across threecontinents in Sept. 2001. Now available for customers, this technologyprovides a production-ready application of the Global Replication Network asdefined in Compaq's ENSA-2 roadmap.
"As Compaq brings its FC-IP offering to the market, it also brings a desireto fully test remote copy solutions," said Dianne McAdam, analyst,Illuminata, Inc. "This is not easy stuff. To have completed interoperabilitytesting with three partners gives the user community alternatives whenconsidering the addition of FC-IP-based solutions to their businesscontinuance plans."
Compaq Enterprise Storage Group and its storage technology partners havecompleted interoperability testing for StorageWorks FC-IP and WDM in WAN andMAN networking solutions. CNT, SANcastle and SAN Valley products havecompleted StorageWorks FC-IP interoperability testing, have proved fullycompatible with StorageWorks arrays, and are ready for implementation. CiscoSystems and Controlware Inc. products have also completed rigorousinteroperability testing of Wave Division Multiplexing and are ready forproduction use.
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