Gillaspy Associates Contracted to Sell SANBlaze Fibre Channel Target Emulation System

Gillaspy Associates, a leading sales organization for high-speed data SAN/LAN network analysis instrumentation, has teamed with SANBlaze Technology Inc., a provider of unique and leading edge networking and storage solutions. Today they announced an agreement contracting Gillaspy Associates to sell VirtuaLUN, a Fibre Channel Target Emulation System. Gillaspy Associates engineering sales team will represent SANBlaze products in the United States.

Camarillo, CA (PRWEB) September 1, 2004 –- Gillaspy Associates, a leading sales organization for high-speed data SAN/LAN network analysis instrumentation, has teamed with SANBlaze Technology Inc., a provider of unique and leading edge networking and storage solutions. Today they announced an agreement contracting Gillaspy Associates to sell VirtuaLUN, a Fibre Channel Target Emulation System. Gillaspy Associates engineering sales team will represent SANBlaze products in the United States. Gillaspy has listed the SANBlaze Fibre Channel emulation tools on their test and measurement website located at http://www.protocoltools.com/fibrechannel/sanblaze.html

The VirtuaLUN system reduces the need to deploy large farms of physical "scratch" disks, providing high performance, non-volatile disk media at a fraction of the cost of physical disks. The SANBlaze VirtuaLUN system delivers an extremely cost-effective approach to Fibre Channel device development and testing. The VirtuaLUN emulates Fibre Channel disk drives for read/write performance testing environments with no initiator side software changes required.

The VirtuaLUN is the ideal tool for Fibre Channel HBA, switch and infrastructure development and testing in a real world, wire speed environment. It is a unique product for any environment that requires varying amounts of fibre channel drives for testing, QA or proof of concept, eliminating the cost and complexity of deploying disk systems. The ability to rapidly change disk counts and configurations as well as simulate a wide range of target conditions provides immediate ROI in the form of saved time and money.

The VirtuaLUN is available with two, four or six Fibre Channel Ports running at one or two Gbps. Each port can be configured to present up to 480 virtual "disks" or LUNs to devices under test, providing a huge cost savings over building the same capability using real disk drives. A fully configured VirtuaLUN can emulate in excess of 2800 LUNs.

The system occupies a 1U rack space, providing test labs with a highly optimized test environment in a compact footprint. An integrated, easy to use web based interface allows configuration, re-configuration, error injection and monitoring from any remote system.

"Our customers have been asking for fibre channel emulation and with the addition of the SANBlaze tools to our fibre channel product line, we are able to offer a powerful fibre channel test solution.” said Joe Gillaspy, president of Gillaspy Associates.

About SANBlaze Technology
SANBlaze Technology, Inc. is a pioneer in Fibre Channel Target Emulation technologies and a leading provider of storage solutions for embedded systems. The company's VirtuaLUN Fibre Channel Target emulation system is widely used in the SAN industry for product development, test and QA. SANBlaze also delivers a complete line of PMC and cPCI Fibre Channel, SCSI and Storage Blades to meet the storage requirements of embedded system designers.

Pricing and Availability
Gillaspy Associates solutions are currently shipping to leading-edge customers. Register on our website for a demonstration

For more detailed information, product configurations and pricing please contact Gillaspy Associates at 805-386-0700 and on the Internet

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