Adaptec and Open-E join forces.

Adaptec, Inc. has announced that it has joined forces with Open-E, developer of iSCSI software, to offer a RAID management solution designed for system integrators developing iSCSI target solutions for small to mid-size enterprise (SME) customers. The iSCSI storage solutions support distributed, Ethernet-based, storage infrastructures using applications that generate data growth including email, Web applications, Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. Open-E, developers of the iSCSI infrastructure solution, and Adaptec, have ensured seamless integration of Open-E's iSCSI target software (Open-E iSCSI-R3, Open-E NAS-R3, and the unified storage solution Open-E DSS) with Adaptec's Unified Serial(TM) SATA/SAS RAID controllers and host bus adapters (HBAs). Open-E customers will now have remote access to the advanced data protection and improved management services offered in Adaptec's Unified Serial SATA/SAS RAID controllers, including RAID 6, which safeguards against the simultaneous failure of two disk drives and RAID 5EE, and high-performance RAID 5 with hot space--via the intuitive Adaptec Storage Manager(TM) (ASM). ASM is a storage management software that runs on all Adaptec controllers for optimizing RAID data volumes, disk utilization, provisioning, diagnostics and storage expansion.

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