
Storage giants to focus on multi-vendor interoperability...
By Pia Heikkila
Published: 20 December 2001 15:20 GMT
Six storage heavyweights have announced joint storage area network (SAN) venture.
Brocade, Compaq, Emulex, IBM, JNI and Qlogic have all joined up to develop multi-vendor SAN interoperability aimed to help IT departments to deploy SANs easier and more efficiently.
The open SAN allows IBM's and Compaq's server platforms to be connected to any storage server with Brocade's fabric switches.
The connected servers will be using Emulex's LightPulse, JNI's FibreStar or Qlogic SANBlader host bus adapters (HBA). HBA is a device that connects one or more peripheral units to a central server.
The initiative was registered under the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
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