Engenio Certifies Storage Solution From Troika Networks and StoreAge N

MILPITAS, Calif., April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Engenio Information Technologies, Inc., a global provider of innovative and highly scalable modular storage systems for the open enterprise, today announced that a storage management solution, integrating the Accelera(TM) 800 and 1600 Network Storage Services (NSS) Platform from Troika Networks and Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) from StoreAge Networking Technologies, has earned Engenio Compatibility Certification. The solution, which runs on Engenio 2882, 4884, and 5884 controllers, enables customers from a wide variety of industries to more easily perform traditional IT storage tasks.

"This solution from Troika Networks and StoreAge will have a positive effect on companies that need to improve SAN functionality while maintaining optimal performance levels," said Julie Ryan, Engenio Manager of Alliances. "By going through the Engenio Certification process, customers can be sure that the solution from Troika Networks and StoreAge will work in many storage computing environments branded by OEMs who purchase Engenio products, including IBM, StorageTek and others."

Troika Networks enables enterprise customers to dramatically improve data protection and management capabilities through flexible SAN-based storage management solutions. Troika's integrated solutions, application hosting platforms, and embedded technology provide a cost-effective approach for implementing disaster recovery, backup, and volume management functionality.

"The Engenio Certification process ensures that our solution is robust and that it can be installed in heterogeneous computing environments," said Steve O'Brian, vice president of marketing, Troika Networks. "Because Engenio supplies the basic technology of many of the disk arrays that are sold on the market today, it is important to ensure compatibility with their technology. This certification ensures compatibility and lets our joint customers know our solutions will provide scalable, flexible, reliable storage management and data protection capabilities."

StoreAge Networking Technologies is an innovative developer of SAN management and data protection storage services. StoreAge offers split-path, SPAID-optimized, storage provisioning, uniform multi-path support, snapshot, replication and data mirroring solutions.

"The combined StoreAge/Troika product offering is the first network-based, SPAID-Optimized solution for providing SAN management and data protection," said Mark Spowart, president of StoreAge Networking Technologies. "Engenio's storage array architecture is one of the most dominant in the industry. Becoming certified with Engenio's technology is an important accomplishment. The solution from StoreAge and Troika has been thoroughly tested and certified across the Engenio product line, giving peace of mind to our joint customers."

About Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.

Engenio Information Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of LSI Logic Corp. , designs and manufactures high performance modular enterprise storage platforms and storage management software that is delivered to end users through strategic partners. IBM, SGI, StorageTek and Teradata are among the partners who deliver total solutions with unique combinations of hardware, software and services for applications including transaction processing, e-mail, data warehousing and scientific research. Engenio is headquartered at 670 N. McCarthy Blvd., Suite 100, Milpitas, CA 95035. For more information, please call 408-935-6300 or visit http://www.engenio.com/.

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