HP Launches 'Tachyon Tested San Solutions' Interoperability Program; New Program Aimed at Speeding Availability of Interoperable Storage Area Networks - Company Business and Marketing

Test-partner Response

"Ancor is completely committed to interoperability initiatives such as HP's Tachyon Tested program," said Carla Kennedy, vice president of marketing for Ancor. "As a leading switch provider, Ancor provides the fabric for storage area networks, and end users have told us the fabric must truly be heterogeneous. HP is taking a leadership position to lay the groundwork to meet end users' demands."

"BROCADE is eager to include its newest family of Fibre Channel fabric switches and software, the BROCADE SilkWorm 2000 products, in the HP Tachyon Interoperability Lab," said Peter Tarrant, vice president of marketing and business development at Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. "BROCADE's participation in HP's Tachyon Interoperability Lab further enforces our commitment to drive interoperability and open standards with our scalable SilkWorm 2000 Fibre Channel fabric solutions for SANs."

"Data General is focused on making proven, open SAN solutions available today," said Joanne Masingill, vice president of CLARiiON marketing at Data General. "To encourage the continued development and deployment of open SAN solutions, our CLARiiON full Fibre Channel storage arrays will be the first technology evaluated in the Tachyon Tested program. Our CLARiiON storage solutions deliver open, full Fibre Channel storagethe enabling technology of an open SAN environmentin a modular and flexible design that allows storage to be easily deployed and tailor fit."

"Interoperability testing is crucial to the creation and implementation of effective SAN solutions," said Jim Moore, president and chief operating officer of Crossroads Systems, Inc. "HP's testing program ensures that each SAN component will deliver the performance and interoperability benefits that companies require when implementing SAN solutions."

"HP's Enterprise Storage Business Unit, a leading storage provider, benefits from a SAN-component-level interoperability lab such as the one the HP Tachyon group is putting in place," said Tom Rallens, product marketing section manager for HP's Enterprise Storage Business Unit. "It provides us with interoperable SAN building blocks that will ultimately reduce the amount of testing in our interoperability labs and get us to market faster."

"As a supporter and developer of SAN products, we're very glad to see HP developing such a dedicated program to address the needs of system OEMs and system integrators," said Scott McIntyre, business line manager for storage networking at Legato Systems. "We believe SAN will be at the core of future storage-management solutions, and we're proud to be providing our products to HP's interoperability lab to continue the advancement of SAN-based applications."

"As a leading provider of 'Open, Intelligent and Integrated' SANs, StorageTek is in full support of HP's interoperability program," said Joan Wrabetz, vice president and general manager of SAN Operations at StorageTek. "StorageTek's VISTA Interoperability Lab, established earlier this year, and the HP Tachyon Interoperability Lab announced Tuesday serve to drive the industry toward complete SAN interoperability, ultimately bringing the most reliable and flexible SAN solutions to customers."