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XIOtech, TEK-TOOLS STRENGTHEN PARTNERSHIP

XIOtech Corp, a storage networking innovator, announced the strengthening of its partnership with Tek-Tools Inc, a leader in the independent storage resource management market, with the launch of version 3.0 of Tek-Tools' Storage Profiler solution with enhanced support for XIOtech's Magnitude storage solution. Storage Profiler works with Magnitude software release 9.50 to effortlessly monitor and report on Magnitude's performance.

Magnitude software release 9.50 includes numerous MIB enhancements and improvements for Magnitude subsystems. With software release 9.50, new values have been added to the Magnitude MIB to support node and port worldwide names for FC-AL cards. Values have also been added to support versioning information from the XIOtech SNMP service, which is now supported by ICON, the Intelligent CONtrol platform for simple, integrated management of both Magnitude and Magnitude 3D solutions.

Storage Profiler 3.0 with support for the Magnitude solution offers complete monitoring of backbone devices (Magnitude, switches and HBAs) and provides IT with a common tool to detect and anticipate storage outages. Storage Profiler's end-to-end storage area network (SAN) reporting--including asset, performance, and storage information--allows organizations to quickly and easily identify problems with their SANs, enabling enterprises to track performance at a virtual disk level. In addition to monitoring Magnitude, Storage Profiler 3.0 also provides monitoring and analysis for VERITAS Backup Exec, Windows XP and Windows 2003, Network Appliance NetCache and Vfiler, as well as network attached storage (NAS) devices.

Storage Profiler for the Magnitude solution offers the following reports:

• Asset Information, including Magnitude Identity.
• Performance Information, including HBA Performance, Magnitude Performance, Physical Device Performance and Virtual Device Performance.
• Storage Information, including Physical Device Usage.

"XIOtech is excited about its continuing partnership with Tek-Tools," said Jim Brady, senior director of product line management at XIOtech. "Our release of software version 9.50 enhances the MIB functionality of the Magnitude solution and facilitates Storage Profiler's complementary reporting and monitoring. XIOtech is working with Tek-Tools to provide this same level of monitoring capability for Magnitude 3D by the end of this year."

"With XIOtech's release of Magnitude software 9.50, Storage Profiler's support allows IT organizations to monitor Magnitude alongside other components of their storage network, including SAN, NAS, DAS and backup applications," said Ken Barth, president and CEO of Tek-Tools. "Storage Profiler provides a full spectrum of monitoring and file analysis features, allowing organizations to uniformly view, report and make proactive and intelligent business decisions regarding their complex heterogeneous storage/backup environments."

The Storage Profiler Suite is a high-performance SRM solution with a centralized Web-based console for heterogeneous networks. With The Storage Profiler Suite, users choose the DAS, NAS, SAN, database and/or backup solution modules that allow the organization to monitor the entire storage enterprise. The Storage Profiler suite installs quickly with only one download and easily integrates with existing storage systems and applications.