Cambex Announces Linux Support for Fibre Channel Adapters

Enabling Intel-based Linux servers to use Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), Cambex Corporation (Waltham, MA), a developer of Fibre Channel hardware and software solutions, today announced Linux support for its FibreQuik PC1000 PCI-to-Fibre Channel host bus adapters. Users running Linux on Intel-based computer servers can use the PC1000 to connect via Fibre Channel to a SAN.

Linux is an open source operating system that rapidly is gaining market share to now comprise an estimated 17% of server operating system shipments, according to research firm International Data Corporation (Framingham, MA). Linux is making its strongest inroads within the Internet community. The Internet Operating System Counter—a Web-based survey about operating system usage on the Internet—found that Linux has become the most popular operating system for Internet applications with approximately 31% of Internet servers using Linux as the operating system.

Cambex designs and markets high-performance Fibre Channel host bus adapters, hubs, and disk arrays for building heterogeneous SANs in UNIX and Windows NT environments. Cambex's FibreQuik Fibre Channel host bus adapters provide Fibre Channel connectivity for IBM AIX, Sun Microsystems Solaris, Windows NT, Novell NetWare, and now Linux-based servers.

Edited by John Spofford