Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and the Denver, Colorado-based Emass Inc vast mass storage subsystems division of E-Systems Inc, have signed an agreement under which Emass will convert its storage management software to run on Siemens Nixdorf’s Sinix Unix systems. Emass’s software automates the management of large volumes of data, typically in the Terabyte range. This type of technology has already been widely adopted in the mainframe sector and its transfer to Siemens Nixdorf Unix systems is designed to enhance the use of Unix in enterprise-wide computing. The agreement also covers joint marketing of the resulting products. Siemens Nixdorf has been granted the worldwide marketing and licensing rights for the Emass software on the RM400 and RM600 due in the middle of the year, and later also on the Reliant RM1000 parallel servers. The deal covers the Hierarchical Storage Management, Amass for archiving and VolServ, volume management software products, which Emasss say complement Siemens Nixdorf products for data management – Arcis for archiving on optical data media and the Networker back-up product. The two companies will integrate these products to create high performance storage offerings. Emass parent E-Systems has agreed to be acquired by Raytheon Co.
