SANBlaze Technology Granted Patent on Emulation Product

-- U.S. Patent 7,844,444 covers the company’s innovative Fibre Channel emulation product -- 

Maynard, MA, March 4, 2011 -- SANBlaze Technology, Inc., a pioneer in storage emulation systems, today announced that it was recently granted a patent for its industry leading storage emulation solution.  The patent for “Fibre Channel Disk Emulator System and Method” covers the underlying technology of the company’s Fibre Channel emulation systems.  These systems have been helping storage developers, test and QA engineers save millions of dollars in capital expense and time since their introduction in 2004.

“We are very happy to have been awarded a patent on our foundational storage emulation product and method,” said Vince Asbridge, Director of Systems and Software at SANBlaze. “The product and invention represents many man years of software development and innovation.  The patent award recognizes the uniqueness of the invention and provides protection of our intellectual property.”

SANBlaze storage emulation products have proved to be an invaluable tool for any company that provides storage solutions, both hardware and software.  The product’s original focus on emulating Fibre Channel targets has been expanded since its inception to include both target side emulation (disks, arrays and tapes) as well as initiator solutions (hosts and servers).  In addition to Fibre Channel, SANBlaze provides emulation solutions for additional storage protocols including SAS, FCoE and iSCSI.

The emulation product provides a user the ability to use a Xeon class server and off-the-shelf Host Bus adapter or Network Interface cards to emulate hundreds of hosts and thousands of disk drives or tapes.  The ability to inject error conditions and simulate real storage scenarios at a fraction of the cost of what real devices would cost, has proven to be of great value to leading storage hardware and software vendors worldwide.

About SANBlaze Technology, Inc.

SANBlaze Technology, Inc., is a pioneer in SAN emulation technologies and leading provider of storage solutions for embedded systems. SANBlaze products include the VirtuaLUN and GargantuLUN family of SAN target and initiator emulation systems available for Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI and SAS and are deployed in the test and development labs of most major storage hardware and software vendors worldwide. The company also designs and manufactures a complete line of storage and networking board level products based on the ATCA® form factor for embedded computing systems.

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Emulation

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