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iQstor Qualifies Brocade SilkWorm Switches With iQ1000 SANs

iQstor Networks Inc, developer of integrated Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, has announced the qualification of two leading Brocade Silkworm fabric switches as interoperable with its iQ1000 family of SAN products.

iQstor's iQ1000 Storage System provides cost-effective, automated SAN solutions that deliver enterprise-level data services features to small and mid-sized businesses (SMB). Qualification of the Brocade SilkWorm 3200 8-port Entry Fabric Switch and SilkWorm 3800 16-port Enterprise Fabric switch products allows iQstor to leverage additional SAN management and Fibre Channel fabric discovery features of the Brocade switches to extend the existing iQstor SAN Manager capabilities.

"The qualification of Brocade's SilkWorm 3200 and 3800 switches is part of our continuing effort to extend the reach of our iQ1000 product family to interoperate with industry-leading SAN infrastructure devices that are in use at SMB facilities today," Jason Lo, president and CEO, iQstor Networks, said. "With the iQ1000, we will provide the mid-tier market a cost-effective storage solution that includes a wealth of enterprise-level data services, and this qualification will allow more of the mid-tier market to build larger, more flexible and more affordable enterprise-level storage area networks using iQstor's iQ1000 in conjunction with Brocade's industry-standard fabric devices."

Management of SAN devices and storage fabric is made available through the iQstor SAN Manager, an intuitive network based central management utility. As a member of the Brocade Fabric Access program, iQstor has developed the ability for its SAN Manager utility to communicate with the Brocade Fabric Access API for switch management and fabric topology discovery. The iQstor SAN Manager enables the storage administrators to monitor and dynamically configure and manage a network of iQ1000 storage systems from a single management console. The iQstor SAN Manager features a Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) utility that provides simple point-and-click mouse operations to configure and monitor the SAN.

iQstor has embedded storage management and data services into the storage processors, allowing their SAN solutions to reduce the workload of storage administrators at mid-tier enterprises and optimize their storage resources, increasing productivity and reducing operating costs.

The company is committed to making enterprise-level data services features -- such as storage virtualization, snapshot, mirroring, remote replication, and policy based storage provisioning -- affordable for the mid-tier market, enabling storage administrators to benefit from greater ease of integration and improved cost-efficiencies as they manage their storage growth requirements.