Tech Scan

February 20, 2003
Sanbolic, ATTO Technology announce product certification

UNITED STATES -- Sanbolic, Inc. and ATTO Technology, Inc. have announced the completion of the product certification of ATTO's ExpressPCI FC 3300 host bus adapter (HBA) series and the ATTO FibreCenter 3400R/D 2-Gigabit hub with Sanbolic's Kayo volume sharing software and Melio FS file system.

The combination of ATTO's hardware and Sanbolic's software provides customers with an easy-to-use SAN solution with field proven technology. Kayo provides volume level data sharing capabilities for customers in Windows based workgroup environments, and is a seamlessly integrated solution that allows multiple workstations to simultaneously read and write to a centralised storage system.

Melio FS is a highly scalable, shared journaling file system that will provide heterogeneous operating system support. It will be used in shared or clustered workgroup environments where performance and simultaneous access to data is a requirement of the workflow process, in storage administration and scalable NAS environments where management and scalability are of importance, as well as in intense grid-computing applications handling heavy transactions, where reliability and capacity are the main priorities.

The ATTO ExpressPCI FC 3300 is a 2-Gigabit fiber-optic channel HBA offering up to 400Mbps performance in full-duplex mode. Only ATTO host adapters offer a unique blend of hardware and software advantages that enhance the performance and reliability of SANs. Efficiencies found in ATTO's microcode allow the host adapter to quickly and reliability deliver data to transactional-intensive enterprise applications and bandwidth-intensive rich media applications so that the highest level of corporate productivity can be reached. The ATTO FibreCenter 3400 R/D is a 2-Gigabit zoned Fibre Channel hub featuring advanced management, product modularity and high availability.

Sherri Robinson, markets manager, ATTO Technology, said: "By working with leading ISVs like Sanbolic in ongoing interoperability efforts, ATTO is able to improve customers' return on investment by reducing the time and resources required to set up and maintain their SANs."

Eva Helén, vice president--business development, Sanbolic, added: "ATTO's hardware technology is a good fit for our products. As interoperability remains a problem in storage area networking, extensive testing is the only way we can guarantee solid product combinations to our customers. We are pleased with the results of ATTO and Sanbolic product tests. We will encourage our customers to use the combined solutions for high performance and reliability."

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