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STPI signs MoU for SAN Lab

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore April 3. The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) and Brocade Communications Systems of the United States, a world leader in Storage Area Networks (SAN) infrastructure, signed an MoU here on Wednesday.

Under the agreement, Brocade will set up a SAN Lab on the STPI premises here. It will also equip the SAN Lab with hardware worth $ 1 lakh.

The STPI Director, B.V.Naidu, said the technical team in Bangalore would use the facility to understand the benefits of SAN deployment at various government agencies.

The STPI staff, and later interested customer companies will receive training.

Post-September 11 retrieval of valuable data had become a key concern of IT companies here, and a Disaster Recover System centre was also planned at the STPI, Mr. Naidu said.

Many software companies had approached the STPI for assistance in this regard and the centre would be useful to the SME segment of software industry. James LaLonde, Vice-President (Asia-Pacific) of Brocade, said SAN would be of great use to Indian companies coping with data storage management at a time when they could not increase budgets or manpower.

Brocade and its partners would provide assistance in architectural designs and return-on-investment analysis for major SAN deployments in India through STPI.

By leveraging Brocade's experience as technology providers for SAN infrastructure, the STPI planned to migrate to a networked model for storage, and in the process create a SAN deployment and design blueprint that other enterprises could adopt.

Within the past one year, 50 per cent of major U.S. corporates had adopted SAN, he added.

The STPI has offices across India that serve as high-speed international gateways.

The STPI network here connected all the IT buildings in Bangalore through microwave or terrestrial links to international gateways.

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