SAN DIEGO, April 16, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD -- The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced that it will showcase an end-to-end N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) demonstration (Booth G-22) from a broad range of leading vendors and solution providers at Storage Networking World (SNW), which will be held April 16 - 19, 2007 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California.
"The FCIA is proud to work with leading organizations that continue to bring innovative Fibre Channel solutions to the market," said Skip Jones, chairman FCIA. "The FCIA NPIV demonstration is another proof-point that shows how Fibre Channel is enabling virtualization while other competing IO technologies continue to test and prove their technology. Fibre Channel continues to forge ahead by enabling critical and innovative solutions in today's data centers providing customers with the assurance their Fibre Channel investment is working for them today and will continue to provide value in the future."
The end-to-end NPIV demonstration will comprise of leading Fibre Channel vendors showcasing their support for the virtualization technology as it relates to their products and solutions. In addition, the FCIA has invited Novell to participate in this demo to showcase their software and support the overall demo.
"Amphenol is very excited to be working with the Fibre Channel industry leaders, delivering high speed, reliable and robust copper and optical interconnect solutions," said Ray Strauss, General Manager, Amphenol Interconnect Products Corporation. "By expanding our focus and broadening our FC product offering, Amphenol has products today to support both current and future 8GFC generation Fibre Channel requirements."
"Customers have invested in Fibre Channel infrastructure for more than a decade, and they are looking for the industry to protect that investment by adding value to that infrastructure," says Dan Crain, Chief Technology Officer for Brocade. "Brocade first introduced NPIV in 2004 for mainframe environments, and is pleased to offer new solutions in 2007 for virtualizing bladed server SAN connectivity with Access Gateway technology."
"Fujitsu is proud to work with industry leaders to drive Fibre Channel adoption in the marketplace," said Joel Hagberg, vice president marketing and business development, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. "Fibre Channel performance and reliability addresses issues of complexity and compliance across IT organizations. The availability of industry-leading technology ensures users increased data availability, protection, performance and strong competitive market advantage."
"As a leading provider of Fibre Channel solutions, LSI is fully behind the NPIV initiative which enables users to simplify SAN management, while increasing storage resource utilization through the creation of virtual SANs," said Harry Mason, director of industry marketing, Storage Components Group, LSI. "Fibre Channel technology continuously evolves to further enhance SAN connectivity, and this week's NPIV demonstration featuring our Engenio 3994 storage system and HBA technology is further proof of its success in accomplishing this mission."
"Molex has been working with the T11 Fibre Channel Technical Group to bring the latest level of interconnect solutions to the industry while maintaining maximum flexibility between generations," said Jay Neer, Corporate Strategic Product Manager. "The interconnect solutions shown today provide the confidence users can continue to expect from the Fibre Channel interface with the current 4G and future 8G implementations."
"PMC-Sierra is committed to extending the value of Fibre Channel. It is great to see the FCIA and member companies deliver new functionality that adds strength to Fibre Channel's value proposition. PMC-Sierra has shipped more than 6 million Tachyon controllers and continued innovation in Fibre Channel will fuel our future growth," said Kevin Burbank, PMC's Director of Marketing for Enterprise Storage Products.
"QLogic customers operate the largest datacenters in the world," said Amit Vashi, senior director, QLogic Host Solutions Group. The FCIA demo is an excellent opportunity for QLogic to demonstrate to datacenter administrators that QLogic SANblade 4Gb HBAs can scale to meet the performance needs of multiple virtual machines hosting business-critical applications like Oracle and MS-Exchange."
About the FCIA NPIV Demo
The FCIA demonstration showcases how storage administrators can deploy multiple virtual machines (VMs) in a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server environment and utilize NPIV technology to increase availability and security, while simplifying SAN management. Using the Novell ZENworks Orchestrator and Virtual Machine Management tool, the participating vendors can create a real world server configuration leveraging their company products.
In addition to FCIA demonstrations, leading members of the organization including Tom Hammond-Doel, Senior Alliance Manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI, M. K. Jibbe, Manager and Test Architect Lead, Engenio Storage Group, LSI, and Steven Wilson, Director of Technology and Standards, Brocade Communications, Inc. will be speaking on current and future Fibre Channel technologies on Monday, April 16th from 2:50 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. in the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Tutorial Track at SNW.
About FCIA
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) is a non-profit international organization whose sole purpose is to act as the independent technology and marketing voice of the Fibre Channel industry. We are committed to helping member organizations promote and position Fibre Channel, and to providing a focal point for Fibre Channel information, standards advocacy, and education.
FCIA members include manufacturers, system integrators, developers, vendors, industry professionals, and end users. Our member-led working groups and committees focus on creating and championing the Fibre Channel technology roadmaps, targeting applications that include data storage, video, networking, and storage area network (SAN) management. For more info, go to http://www.fibrechannel.org