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Irving, Texas (June 18, 2002) -SANcastle Technologies,
Inc., the leading provider of fabric border switches, announces
availability of its latest feature: Autonomous Regions with
Domain Address Translation (AR/DAT), which resolves global
SAN scalability and simplifies large Fibre Channel fabrics
for storage administrators.
Fibre Channel Native Firewall
AR/DAT enables an industry first – a Fibre Channel Native
Firewall. SANcastle switches with AR/DAT, act as "border
switches" eliminating address conflicts between domains
(switches) and improving management and control between Autonomous
Regions for security and performance. The SAN islands are
connected to core switches via FC SW2 E-Port standard, thereby
eliminating vendor interoperability issues.
SANcastle’s border switches with AR/DAT interconnect
heterogeneous, local or remote SAN islands into single, homogeneous
Fibre Channel fabrics, keeping intact the mutually independent
domain address spaces and zoning strategies of each individual
fabric. When one island is disrupted due to planned or unplanned
downtime, the disruption no longer affects the entire fabric.
AR/DAT fully eliminates the penetration of undesired Registered
State Change Notifications (RSCNs) from one Fibre Channel
fabric to the other, thereby eliminating the propagation of
disruptions beyond the individual SAN borders.
AR/DAT gives users the ability to improve security, performance,
and manageability of their existing SANs that are fibre channel
based, as well as those that are remotely tied together. This
means that enterprises that have already implemented Fibre
Channel based SANs within their enterprise can optimize the
investment already spent with little or no disruption to the
existing Fibre Channel fabrics.
"There is plenty of talk in the industry right now about
the megaswitches that will enable SANs to infinitely scale,
but there is a very real need for a solution that addresses
the scaling issue in existing SAN infrastructures," stated
Nancy Marrone, senior analyst with The Enterprise Storage
Group. "SANcastle's AR/DAT solution is the first in the
industry to provide the ability to isolate SAN domains and
ease the management burdens in a complex SAN environment."
"SANcastle's border switches with AR/DAT represent a
member of the new SAN building block in the march towards
global SAN and the holy grail of the storage utility,"
says Steve Sicola, technical director for HP's Online Storage
Division, "The AR/DAT feature makes it part of the 'Storage
Router' family, as I call it – those components that
mesh the fabrics together, thereby making scale possible without
the nightmares of tight coupling across sites or businesses,
not to mention interoperability between switch types."
"Consolidating multiple storage networks into one integrated
fabric is an important means for enterprises to control storage
management costs," stated Farid Neema, president of Peripheral
Concepts, Inc. and chairman of the Network Storage Conference.
"This is one of the important topics addressed at Network
Storage 2002. SANcastle has been pioneering this field and
I am delighted to have them share with us their approach to
integrating a set of heterogeneous SAN islands into a seamless,
homogeneous network."
"With AR/DAT, SANcastle is demonstrating that we offer
more than a ‘SAN extension’ solution and that we
are committed to being the leader in the border switch market,"
stated Jim Keady, president and chief executive officer, SANcastle.
"AR/DAT also provides the flexibility of supporting different
brands of Fibre Channel switches and directors – true
interoperability that users have been demanding."
About SANcastle
SANcastle Technologies, Inc., is a privately held manufacturer
of multiprotocol switches for integrating Fibre Channel and
Gigabit Ethernet networks. Founded in 1998, SANcastle enables
enterprises to perform business applications by creating a
global fabric that seamlessly connects disparate networks
regardless of the infrastructure environments and without
disruption or technology changes. SANcastle has facilities
in Israel and the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. For more information,
call or visit the website at www.sancastle.com
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