- ATTO Technology
Infobox_Company
company_name = ATTO Technology Corporation
company_type = Private
company_
foundation =1988
location =Amherst, New York ,USA
key_people =Tim Klein, President and CEO David Snell, CTO and Vice President of Engineering
industry = Storage
homepage = [http://www.attotech.com/ www.attotech.com]ATTO Technology is a manufacturer of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments. ATTO manufactures host adapters, interface-bridging appliances,
Virtual Tape Library appliances,RAID appliances, and management software with storage interface connectivity toSCSI ,SATA , SAS,Fibre Channel ,NDMP ,Gigabit Ethernet andiSCSI .History
The company was founded in 1988 by Timothy J. Klein and David A. Snell and is headquartered in
Amherst, New York . All of ATTO's products are engineered and manufactured in the United States and ATTO has delivered more than an estimated 1.5 million products to the market in a broad range of storage applications and environments.Areas of operation
ATTO's products are sold worldwide directly to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and systems integrators as well as through ATTO authorized distributors and resellers. ATTO OEM customers encompass a wide range of technology companies including Apple Computer, EMC – Data General, Eastman Kodak, Quantum, SUN Microsystems, Avid Technology, Overland Storage, NEC, ADIC, Unisys and many more.
Some of the countries where ATTOs products are available include: United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin & South America, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea,South West Asia (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), Taiwan, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Japan.
Products
Products include software, Host Adapters (Fibre Channel, SCSI, SAS, SATA and GigE), sometimes called Storage Adapters or Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).
Other products include appliances which are replacements for servers and are self contained hardware that include
Virtual tape orRAID software for use in video and IT markets. Protocol conversion products, calledbridges also are produced and convert one protocol to another, Fibre Channel to iSCSI, Fibre Channel to SCSI or Fibre Channel to SAS/SATA for instance.Applications
*Storage-intensive applications such as database management, online transaction processing (OLTP),E-mail, Internet serving and document management solutions.
*Streaming media applications such as digital video, digital audio, film, broadcast and video-on-demand solutions.
*Image-intensive applications such as mapping, pre-press, publishing, printing, CAD/CAM, medical and document imaging.
*Server environments for direct attach and/or network attached storage such as SAN and NAS with disk, tape, optical, CD or other storage media.
*Enterprise backup environments such as tape library connectivity, disk-based backup and serverless backup solutions.References
* [http://storagecommunity.intel.com/kshowcase/view/profile_search/view_profile?item_key=3a3cdd7eb7b6a2e2d0fe7d74693c9b9194378e1e&referring_url=/kshowcase Intel corporate site]
* [http://www.attotech.com/attoview.html About ATTO at corporate site]
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