ATTO TECHNOLOGY

'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 to SCSI, SATA, SAS, Fibre Channel, NDMP, Gigabit Ethernet and iSCSI.

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History

Areas of operation

Products

Applications

References

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 or RAID software for use in video and IT markets. Protocol conversion products, called bridges 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

Intel corporate site
About ATTO at corporate site