Seagate targets SAN market in Asia Pacific

NEW DELHI: XIOtech Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate

Technology dealing in virtualized storage and Storage Area Network (SAN)

solutions, has planned a major offensive for the Asia Pacific market. It will be

committing significant resources to launching new products and services and in

expanding its sales strategy to provide SAN solutions to the fast growing SAN

marketplace in Asia Pacific. These solutions and services will help customers

manage information and transactions efficiently across increasingly complex,

multi-vendor networks.

XIOtech pledges support towards developing collaborative industry SAN

standards by participating in the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA)

workgroups. Seagate is a voting member in SNIA. XIOtech has also announced that

it will step up its involvement in developing and implementing fibre channel

standards and interoperability through its new membership in the Fiber Channel

Industry Association (FCIA).

According to IDC Asia Pacific 2000, the SAN market is expected to grow beyond

the $1,000 million mark by 2004 as storage networking lays the foundation for

the more effective management of enterprise data.

SAN technology plays an increasingly critical role in how digital information

is stored and managed in the Internet era. It offers the scalability and

manageability advantages of today's network architecture while significantly

increasing network performance by eliminating bottlenecks on the information

superhighway. The SAN technology enables migration of critical types of

information intelligence from servers to storage platforms. These intelligent

storage platforms can connect directly to the network and to each other,

liberating server bandwidth, significantly increasing network performance and

reliability, and substantially reducing network management costs.