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posted on 04 April 2008 09:06

Maynard, MA, April 3, 2008 -- SANBlaze Technology, Inc., a leading provider of Storage Emulation Systems, today announced the availability of the SANBlaze VirtuaLUN8™ 8G
Fibre Channel target emulation system, the industry’s first 8G target system.

The VirtualLUN8 8G system provides an extremely cost effective approach to 8G Fibre Channel device testing and is available configured with 2, 4, 8 or 10 Fibre Channel ports running at 2, 4 or 8 Gbps. Each port can be configured to present from 1 to 512 virtual “disks,” each with a configurable size, speed, attributes and profiles.

With this newest SANBlaze platform, customers can finally test 8G hardware and storage applications in their test and development environments, reducing the need to deploy large farms of physical “scratch” disks, providing high performance, non-volatile disk media at a fraction of the cost of physical disks.

“With the VirtuaLUN 8G system, SANBlaze further demonstrates its commitment to offering the industry’s most complete suite of emulation systems,” said SANBlaze CEO Steve Munroe. “A fully configured system can present over 5000 LUNs into the test environment, providing our customers with a huge cost savings over building the same capability using real disk drives.

The ability to add latency, have differing read/write sizes, inject a wide variety of errors and save and restore multiple disk configurations makes the VirtuaLUN 8G system a scalable, flexible and invaluable tool for Fibre Channel HBA, switch, infrastructure and software companies. The products feature set provides a unique test tool for product development, QA and test, boundary and exception testing, performance, stability testing and error handling.

The SANBlaze VirtuaLUN occupies a 1U or 2U rack space, providing test labs with a highly optimized test environment in a compact footprint. An integrated, easy to use web based
interface allows configuration, re-configuration, error injection and monitoring from any remote system.

Configurations and Availability

The SANBlaze VirtuaLUN 8G Target emulation system is available immediately in multiple configurations based on port count and memory configuration.

About SANBlaze Technology

SANBlaze Technology, Inc. is a pioneer in SAN emulation technologies and a leading provider of storage solutions for embedded systems. SANBlaze products include the VirtuaLUN and GargantuLUN family of SAN target and initiator emulation systems and are deployed in the test and development labs of most major storage hardware and software vendors worldwide. The company also designs and manufactures a complete line of AMC, PMC, ATCA and cPCI board level storage solutions for embedded computing systems.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}