JNI connects IBM's shark storage to SUN's StarfireMountain View 27 September 2000 JNI Corporation, a Fibre Channel host bus adapter company said that IBM has qualified JNI's FCI-1063 PCI-to-Fibre Channel and FC64-1063 SBus-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for IBM's Enterprise Storage Server connected to fabric-enabled Solaris-based servers.
The Enterprise Storage Server, also known as the "Shark," is IBM's
most sophisticated disk storage system and is based on a modular,
Seascape architecture which provides IBM's customers with
limitless data storage capabilities and the means to easily scale and
manage that data to accommodate their data center growth. Shark was
designed to work in heterogenous environments, across all platforms
and is the cornerstone of IBM's open storage networking initiative.
"IBM designed its Enterprise Storage Server to effortlessly
accommodate current data storage/management trends, one of those being
Storage Area Networks, or SANs," said Scott Ruple, JNI senior vice
president of business development and marketing. "The inherent
advantages of a SAN, including data management, scalability,
reliability and overall capacity have been integrated within the
'Shark.' JNI is very pleased to be playing a key role in IBM's
next-generation storage server."
"IBM has leveraged JNI's technology to develop a number of
enterprise-level products, including our own 1- and 2-Gb/s
Ultrastar line of Fibre Channel hard drives," said Dean Underwood,
marketing manager for disk subsystems, IBM, which also delivers native
Fibre Channel for the RS/6000, NUMA-Q, Netfinity and all other vendor
implementations of NTServers. "We're pleased to have qualified JNI's
FC64-1063 and FCI-1063 Fibre Channel HBAs for use with our Enterprise
Storage System -- the reliable and heterogeneous nature of JNI's PCI
and SBus HBAs, along with their broad compatibility, makes their
qualification a priority."
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