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Aarohi Delivers Enhanced FabricStream(TM) Platform to Expand ISV and OEM Application Development and Solution Interoperability

Posted on: Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 06:00 CST

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Aarohi Communications, Inc., provider of FabricStream enabling technology for intelligent storage networking equipment, today announced the availability of its enhanced FabricStream platform to expand ISV and OEM application development and solution interoperability with FabricStream. The enhanced FabricStream platform now includes performance-optimized drivers for Windows XP, Red Hat Linux 7.2 and Advanced Server 3.0 environments and a rich suite of new APIs for accelerating storage management applications including volume management, replication, snapshot, migration, mirroring, caching and disk-based backup. In addition, the FabricStream platform includes a robust reference application for speeding ISV and OEM storage application development.

"Aarohi FabricStream enables high performance, accelerated time-to-market and cost-effective implementation for intelligent storage networking platforms," said Ameesh Divatia, chief executive officer at Aarohi. "With the introduction of new functionality, we are expanding the reach of our FabricStream technology beyond intelligent storage switches to a broader range of intelligent platforms including storage management appliances, storage arrays and blade servers."

Aarohi FabricStream combines purpose-built software and silicon to enable application processing intelligence to be cost-effectively integrated into a variety of storage networking platforms while providing wire-speed in-band processing for data-intensive storage applications. To date, five leading storage management application software developers have joined the FabricStream Alliance Partner Program and are committed to support FabricStream in their products. Several leading storage OEM hardware vendors have also committed to develop applications around Aarohi FabricStream.

"End users are demanding new levels of manageability for their enterprise storage," said W. Curtis Preston, storage analyst and president of The Storage Group. "Aarohi FabricStream technology will allow customers to administer much larger storage networks, while ensuring that redundancy, performance, and security policies are maintained throughout their network."

Aarohi FabricStream Showcased at Storage Networking World in Phoenix, AZ

Aarohi will showcase a FabricStream-enabled solution on McDATA's intelligent switch platform running StoreAge SVM(TM), MultiView(TM), MultiCopy(TM) and MultiMirror(TM) applications at Storage Networking World in Phoenix, AZ April 6-8 in the McDATA booth #13.

About Aarohi Communications

Aarohi Communications is the provider of FabricStream, the enabling technology for a new generation of intelligent storage networking platforms that will dramatically simplify enterprise storage management and enable heterogeneous storage consolidation. Founded in 2001, Aarohi is headquartered in San Jose, California with a second development center in Bangalore, India. Aarohi has raised over $36 million to date from venture capitalists and corporate partners including Telesoft Partners, Kennet Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Infineon Technologies and McDATA Corporation. The company can be reached by phone at 408-434-6064 and on the Web at http://www.aarohi.net/ .

NOTE: FabricStream is a trademark of Aarohi Communications, Inc. All other brands, products, service names, trademarks or registered service marks are used to identify the products or services of their respective owners.

Aarohi Communications, Inc.

CONTACT: Corey Oiesen, +1-408-395-3600, or coreyo@dovetailpr.com, orKerry Swanson, +1-408-395-3600, or kerry@dovetailpr.com, both of DovetailPublic Relations, for Aarohi Communications; or Joel Warford of AarohiCommunications, +1-408-434-6064, ext. 273, or jwarford@aarohi.net

Web site: http://www.aarohi.net/

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