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ORLANDO, FL -- Vixel Corporation (Nasdaq:VIXL), a leading provider of storage area networking (SAN) solutions, announced that its SAN management software, SAN InSite(TM), is now available to end-users. The general availability of the product represents the final phase of the Company's go-to-market strategy, following a private label OEM transaction with leading storage software provider Fujitsu Softek, a distribution partnership agreement with United Kingdom-based Sagitta Systems and special offerings extended to its Fibre Channel switch customer base. SAN users of any size and configuration can now purchase and use SAN InSite to discover, monitor and manage the health and performance of their SAN, enhancing the return on their storage investment and lowering overall total cost of SAN ownership. "The need for SAN management has become a requirement mandated by a variety of emerging storage industry trends," said Jamie Gruener, senior analyst of Yankee Group. "WAN-based SANs enabled by protocols such as Fibre Channel over IP or iSCSI, and multivendor SANs enabled by switch interoperability standards will help move enterprises to a storage utility model, but introduce new management challenges. As SANs become more ubiquitous, users will increasingly need a way to discover, monitor and manage the devices on their storage network. Vixel's SAN InSite offers users a straightforward way to address these needs." SAN InSite is a fully heterogeneous management software product that allows users to centrally discover, monitor and manage all the devices in their SAN, regardless of the device manufacturer or location on the network. Its ability to scale readily from departmental to enterprise level storage networks helps users reduce the cost of managing their SANs and provides organizations that require global access to their data with the ability to maintain the health and performance of their enterprise's infrastructure. "SAN Management software plays a pivotal role in end-users' ability to reliably protect and access their data while controlling the costs and effort associated with ownership of a SAN," says Beth White, vice president of marketing at Vixel Corporation. "Vixel's deep experience in SAN management is a natural outgrowth of our expertise in SAN interconnect hardware management and design. Using SAN InSite, IT managers can derive ROI from their SANs today while creating a management capability for their SAN that acts as a foundation to integrate future network topologies and storage protocols. SAN InSite can instantly enhance the performance of any SAN without limiting the user's ability to take advantage of tomorrow's technologies." For more information visit www.vixel.com