International Consortium for SAN Management

August 16, 2000 -- Nexsan Technologies today announced that it had joined FibreAlliance, an open, international consortium driving the development and implementation of standards for managing heterogeneous storage area networks (SANs). There are a total of fifty companies participating in this exciting project which will make it easier and more cost-effective for customers to design, deploy, and operate SANs.

Sponsored by EMC Corporation, FibreAlliance's first project is a management MIB for infrastructure devices such as Fibre Channel switches and hubs. Nexsan's InfiniSAN family is expected to include this capability in future product releases.

Founded in 1998, and operational since April 1999, Nexsan Technologies, Ltd. is a OEM manufacturer of high availability, mission-critical data storage solutions for the world-wide marketplace. Nexsan sells through a network of specialist storage VARs and distributors in Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Canada, Switzerland, Greece, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK, with more to be announced.