Woven Systems Named 'Cool Vendor' by Leading Analyst Firm
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 26 - Woven Systems(TM), Inc., the leading innovator of Ethernet fabric solutions, has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the March 2007 "Cool Vendors in Enterprise Communications 2007" report, written by Mark Fabbi, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, Inc.
The Woven solutions are uniquely designed for server and storage interconnect in HPC clusters, Internet and Enterprise data centers, and IP storage environments. The limitations of current offerings InfiniBand(TM), Fibre Channel, and conventional Ethernet solutions are easily resolved with the Woven EFX 1000 Ethernet Fabric switch. Setting a new standard, Woven ensures that the performance, availability, and integrity of the data center are optimized. With up to 144 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports, the EFX 1000 offers massive scalability, interoperability, and the familiarity of Ethernet. The Woven vSCALE(TM) packet processing technology efficiently manages the distribution of traffic through a multi-path meshed Ethernet fabric. Woven's implementation of latency-optimized routing with real-time Active Congestion Management delivers the highest levels of application performance in high end data center environments, while removing capacity bottlenecks with its non-blocking fabric capabilities. With the highest number of 10 GE ports per chassis at 1/5th the cost, 1/5th the rack space and 1/5th the power consumption of alternative systems, Woven delivers the lowest total cost of ownership in the market today.
"We believe Woven's 'Cool Vendor' status provides a compelling argument for adopting 10 GE to meet today's network requirements and bandwidth challenges," said president and CEO Harry Quackenboss. "We are pleased that Gartner has analyzed Woven as a supplier that is focused on a new approach to building all-Ethernet data centers."
Woven Systems is being mentioned as a "Cool Vendor" at this week's Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2007 in San Francisco, California.
About Woven Systems
Woven Systems is an innovative network infrastructure provider that offers the industry's first massively scalable Ethernet fabric switching solutions for data centers. Fully compliant with IEEE Ethernet standards, Woven redefines network performance and efficiency with Active Congestion Management for balancing traffic, operational simplicity, and a significantly lower cost of switching. The Woven solutions deliver the performance and scalability of InfiniBand(TM), the reliability of Fibre Channel and the ease-of-use of Ethernet. For more information, contact Woven Systems at the company's web site wovensystems.com
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
Source: Woven Systems, Inc.
CONTACT: Curtis Chan of CHAN & ASSOCIATES, INC., +1-714-447-4993, Ext.
100, cj_chan@chanandassoc.com, for Woven Systems; or Derek Granath of Woven Systems, Inc., +1-408-654-8900, Ext. 140, dgranath@wovensystems.com
Web site: http://wovensystems.com/
