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Box Hill Systems Corp. Teams Up with Legato Systems and StorageTek to Deliver Turnkey SAN Solutions

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Box Hill Systems Corp. has formed a strategic partnership with Legato Systems and StorageTek to develop and deliver turnkey Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions to its customers. The partnership focuses on integrating existing technologies from the three companies to provide comprehensive SAN solutions that enhance business applications and support global companies' availability requirements. The collaboration aims to provide customers with cutting-edge technology, better service, and improved bottom lines.

Key Takeaways:

  • The partnership involves integrating Box Hill's Fibre Channel-based RAID systems with Legato NetWorker and Legato SmartMedia backup software and StorageTek's tape libraries, Fibre Channel disk, and networking components.
  • Box Hill's first SAN solution is LAN-less Backup, which offloads backup functions from the front-end local area network (LAN) onto a dedicated SAN, improving performance and availability.
  • The SAN is a Fibre Channel-based, high-speed network that supports transfer speeds of up to 200 MB/s and cable lengths up to 10 kilometers.
  • SANs enable information to be protected without affecting the LAN or overall system performance, allowing for increased availability, faster throughput, and reduced costs.
  • The partnership aims to provide customers with ideal SAN solutions for business-critical, data-intensive applications, such as data warehousing, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), multimedia, and video production.
  • Legato Systems has developed an integrated set of enterprise storage management software products for heterogeneous client/server computing environments, with a recognized de facto standard and a large installed base of over 37,000 customers.
  • Box Hill Systems Corp. is a leading independent provider of storage and SAN solutions, recognized worldwide by a customer base that includes many of the largest financial, telecommunications, digital imaging, multimedia, and pharmaceutical institutions.

Statistics:

  • StorageTek's tape libraries, Fibre Channel disk, and networking components will be integrated with Legato NetWorker and Legato SmartMedia to provide comprehensive SAN solutions.
  • Box Hill's first SAN solution, LAN-less Backup, offloads backup functions from the LAN onto a dedicated SAN, improving performance and availability.
  • The SAN supports transfer speeds of up to 200 MB/s and cable lengths up to 10 kilometers.
  • The partnership aims to provide customers with increased availability, faster throughput, and reduced costs.
  • Legato Systems has an installed base of over 37,000 customers worldwide.
  • Box Hill Systems Corp. provides storage and SAN solutions to many of the largest financial, telecommunications, digital imaging, multimedia, and pharmaceutical institutions worldwide.

Sources:

  • PRNewswire
  • NYSE: BXH
  • Nasdaq: LGTO
  • Storage Technology Corp. (NYSE: STK)
  • Box Hill Systems Corp. (www.boxhill.com)
  • Legato Systems, Inc. (www.legato.com)
  • StorageTek (www.storagetek.com)

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