February 28, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Auspex Systems, Inc. (auspex.com), a provider of enterprisestorage solutions, announced yesterday that it has become a charter memberof the Citrix Systems, Inc. (citrix.com) Citrix Business Alliance, or CBA. As a CBA member, Auspex will work with Citrix to ensure compatibility of its NS3000 series of Network Attached Storage network servers with Citrix’sserver-based computing environment.
Use of Auspex NS3000 servers for data consolidation can simplify theinfrastructure and cut administrative costs associated with a Citriximplementation, the company says. UNIX and Windows data and applications,database files, current and archived e-mail, Web pages and other content canbe merged onto one or more Auspex servers, eliminating the need to managededicated storage pools for each form of content.
In addition, Auspex’s parallel processing architecture can improve datadelivery speeds to end users, and the company’s “one-world” security modelprovides secure file sharing between UNIX and Windows clients without theneed to duplicate data and without risk of file loss or corruption.
“Auspex and Citrix clearly share the same objectives of centralizingmanagement and lowering TCO,” said Lawrence Didsbury, manager of strategicalliances for Auspex Systems. “Joining the Citrix Business Alliance gives usan opportunity to demonstrate the way Auspex network servers can enhance theadvantages of Citrix’s server-based computing, and it also provides a meansof compatibility testing that will give our customers the assurance ofinteroperability in a Citrix environment.”
