Atto HBAs Certified for EMC VNX

ATTO Technology, Inc. announced that its Celerity Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters have been qualified by EMC Corporation as E-Lab tested for use with EMC VNX unified storage.

ATTO’s Fibre Channel HBAs provide the industry’s only E-lab certified SAN connectivity solution for EMC unified storage in both Windows and Mac OS X environments. This qualification adds Celerity to the E-lab certification list along with EMC Celerra, Symmetrix, and CLARiiON storage systems.

End users can now combine ATTO’s fibre channel HBAs and EMC VNX unified storage to deploy a storage solution for rich-content creation, capture, and distribution. This solution is useful for professionals in industry’s including media and entertainment, government and education, oil & gas, video surveillance and medical imaging.

"EMC’s certification of ATTO’s Fibre Channel host adapters reinforces ATTO’s role in delivering storage infrastructure solutions," said Timothy J. Klein, president and CEO of ATTO Technology. "Now professionals using the most demanding workstation-based applications have direct access to EMC’s VNX unified storage. ATTO is an EMC Select Partner, and this E-Lab certification is another way we offer our customers a high-performance and completely redundant storage solution adding enterprise features and reliability to their workflow."

ATTO’s Celerity family of 8Gb/s and 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs include single-, dual- and quad-channel configurations to connectivity while its multipathing solution provides load balancing and path failover for uninterrupted access to storage media. Pairing Celerity HBAs and EMC’s VNX unified storage systems give customers a solution that enhances workflow, improves storage utilization and simplifies management of many virtual resources.

ATTO’s portfolio of products is available in EMEA through Global Distribution.