NextGig Provides SANBlaze Storage Emulation in California, Washington and Oregon

NextGig Systems will provide its SANBlaze Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Fiber Channel and SAS (News - Alert) storage emulation systems in California, Washington and Oregon.

NextGig Systems provides network connectivity, monitoring and test solutions for IT professionals and storage development engineers. This exclusive representative agreement allows NextGig Systems to provide engineers in the development and test lab as well as the data center with these innovative storage emulation test solutions.

 

SANBlaze (News - Alert) Technology is a pioneer in SAN emulation technologies and a provider of storage solutions for embedded systems. The robust SANBlaze storage emulation systems are configurable and can emulate actual storage devices- can emulate over 2000 drives with capacities up to 100 Terabytes per drive. The officials claim that the SANBlaze initiator emulators provide real login and command control by behaving as real initiators.

 

In a release, Rob Esau, NextGig System's CEO, noted that SANBlaze tool is already popular among the development and test lab engineer for Fibre Channel and SAS emulation. The company has experienced an increase of FCoE in data and storage networks, and believes that SANBlaze FCoE emulation solutions will be the new tool of choice for storage engineering professionals.

 

One of the most attractive points of the SANBlaze Emulation system is that it can be deployed at a fraction of what the devices they are emulating cost. Companies will also benefit from soft cost savings such as power and space, and lower configuration and deployment times.

 

Elaborating on the products, officials said that SANBlaze target emulation systems for FCoE, Fibre Channel and SAS offer a virtual, very cost-efficient configurable environment for SAN product development, testing and QA.

 

These efficient systems have the ability to reduce the need to deploy large farms of physical "scratch disks" or tapes. This successfully provides port density, high performance, non-volatile media at a fraction of the cost of physical disks or tapes.