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August 28, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Six members of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced on Wednesday that they have developed the first major interoperability initiative registered under the organization?s Supported Solutions Forum (SSF).
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The solution is designed to enable data mirroring between geographically dispersed for backup and recovery, and to connect remote Storage Area Network islands to create a single fabric.
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Storage networking companies Hitachi Data Systems, Inrage Technologies Corporation, IBM Corporation, LEGATO Systems Inc., Storage Technology Corporation and VERITAS Software Corporation announced that they had completed interoperability testing of two jointly-developed open SAN solutions designed to extend storage area networks and provide options for protecting and enabling backup and recovery.
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The SNIA SSF was organized in 2001 to create solutions for customer interoperability problems. The organization?s solutions are developed by participating vendors to meet customer requirements for scalable, flexible, interoperable, cooperatively supported storage networking infrastructures.
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The solution announced Wednesday uses channel extension technology to combine remote SAN islands into a single fabric, and illustrates the ability to critical applications like DB2 and Oracle between different locations.
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“As data growth continues to explode and increasing demands are placed on existing storage networks, customers require proven, interoperable storage solutions that enable reliable methods of enterprise backup and recovery,” says SNIA SSF Committee board member Warren Smith. “As users continue to implement and expand SANs, mirroring provides a cost-effective method for both backup/recovery and for connecting SAN islands into a single fabric. Today’s announcement is evidence of vendors working together for the good of the customer to provide solutions that can be deployed in the real-world to solve business problems and enable customers to maintain highly available storage networks.”
