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McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT), a leading provider of
data access solutions, today announced McDATA Virtualizer, the first in
a series of Advanced Fabric Services offerings delivered on McDATA’s
Application Services Module (ASM) platform. The McDATA Virtualizer
enables storage administrators to lower capital expenditures, reduce
operating expenses and automate complex recurring tasks, while
effectively managing and protecting ever growing quantities of business
data.
Virtualizer leverages McDATA’s ASM in a high
availability configuration to enable greater storage utilization, faster
single-point heterogeneous provisioning, non-disruptive end of lease
transitions, tiered-optimized storage, online capacity expansion, local
and remote replication and powerful logical data views.
Unlike other solutions, McDATA Virtualizer is a completely integrated
solution and performs to enterprise class requirements. It can be added
to an entire storage fabric by connecting a single Virtualizer through
any port on a switch or director – an
improvement over other solutions that require multiple appliances, or
use of multiple intelligent blades that are limited by a switch’s
chassis.
“Future data centers will focus on business
requirements over infrastructure,” said
Enterprise Strategy Group Founder and Senior Analyst Steve Duplessie. “The
technological design of McDATA’s ASM takes a
big stride toward realizing complete Enterprise Infrastructure
Abstraction.”
Virtualizer is the first in a series of Advanced Fabric Services
offerings delivered on McDATA’s Application
Services Module platform. McDATA ASMs are standalone modules, designed
with an open application program interface (API), so that McDATA can
team with OEMs and other partners to deliver advanced services to
existing fabrics, quickly, non-disruptively and without any SAN hardware
replacement requirements. Meeting the needs of enterprise-class
customers, the highly scalable ASM architecture delivers up to two
million virtual I/O (Input/Output) operations per second (VIOPs) per
module. The ASM’s modular architecture allows
it to connect into any switch or director, based on fabric from any
vendor or OEM. Unlike appliance offerings, McDATA’s
ASMs use a true “split path”
architecture, which allows a single point of control and scalable data
movement.
“McDATA understands that customers want
easier data access and are demanding solutions that allow them to focus
more time on leveraging business data and less time figuring out how to
technologically support it,” said McDATA
Chief Operating Officer Todd Oseth. “That’s
why we designed our ASM with an open API that we share with all; and
with a platform that supports a truly integrated solution that can
operate in existing SAN infrastructures and adapt and grow with future
requirements. We worked with StoreAge to offer Virtualizer, and we’re
working with others to bring additional fabric services to market in the
future.”
McDATA’s Virtualizer is available now on a
limited basis from McDATA, with full availability in December.
ASM/Virtualizer Industry Quotes
Partners
Jeff Bawol, Senior VP and General Manager of Enterprise
Software and Storage (ESS)
Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas
"Avnet solutions address complex environments," said Jeff Bawol, senior
vice president and general manager of Enterprise Software and Storage
(ESS), Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. "While customers are
interested in virtualization, many products do not support heterogeneous
environments or scalability needs. McData's Virtualizer combines vendor
and storage resource independence with scalability and manageability. It
is a product that we believe will meet the real-world environments of
our partners' customers."
Joe Fannin, CEO
NET Source
"The concept of adding virtualization by simply adding ASM modules to
existing switching ports would be very attractive to our customers,"
said McDATA partner NET Source. "While there are tremendous management
advantages gained from virtualization, having to completely replace a
switch and/or lose switching capabilities at the fabric level have
prevented companies from implementing a solution so far. McDATA's ASM
overcomes those boundaries. Now that the product is available, we
believe our customers will be seriously evaluating it as a viable
option."
Industry Analysts
Data Mobility Group
“Heterogeneity has been a major barrier to
greater adoption of virtualization and other advanced fabric services
available today,” said Joe Martins, research
director and managing member for Data Mobility Group. “The
McDATA ASM appears to have solved that problem. In addition to its
generous processing power, the ASM uses a rather extensive open API, and
McDATA is welcoming all vendors to port their solutions to it.”
IDC
"With today's increasingly complex storage environments, enterprises
need solutions that improve reliability and manageability for all of
their heterogeneous storage assets," said Richard Villars, Vice
President of Storage Systems Research at IDC. "Solutions like McDATA
Virtualizer that deliver common data movement and management functions
across different tiers of networked storage are playing a critical role
in helping IT managers control storage costs and improve storage asset
utilization."
StorageIO
“It’s great to see
McDATA deliver on its vision of an open solution that allows customers
to add advanced fabric services including transparent data migration and
volume management to their Fibre Channel and iSCSI networks," said Greg
Schulz, Founder and Sr. Analyst the StorageIO Group. “With
the ASM, McDATA is delivering an integrated fabric based storage
virtualization solution leveraging a performance optimized appliance
that supports robust storage services software to enhance storage
management tasks in heterogeneous environments."
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT) is the leading provider of data
access solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize
and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and WAN
environments. With nearly 25 years experience developing SAN products,
services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's
largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked
data.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements about expected future events that
are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties. Readers are
urged to consider statements that include the terms "believes",
"belief", "expects", "plans", "objectives", "estimates", "anticipates",
"intends", "targets", or the like to be uncertain and forward-looking.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ and vary materially
from expectations include, but are not limited to, McDATA’s
relationships with EMC, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems and the level of
their orders, aggressive price competition by numerous other SAN and IP
switch suppliers, OEM qualification of our new products, integration of
CNT’s sales and marketing functions,
manufacturing constraints, constraints in obtaining third party product
for resale and other risk factors that are disclosed in McDATA’s
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These cautionary
statements by McDATA should not be construed as exhaustive or as any
admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by McDATA. All
cautionary statements should be read as being applicable to all
forward-looking statements wherever they appear. McDATA does not
undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT), a leading
provider of data access solutions, today announced McDATA Virtualizer,
the first in a series of Advanced Fabric Services offerings delivered
on McDATA's Application Services Module (ASM) platform. The McDATA
Virtualizer enables storage administrators to lower capital
expenditures, reduce operating expenses and automate complex recurring
tasks, while effectively managing and protecting ever growing
quantities of business data.
Virtualizer leverages McDATA's ASM in a high availability
configuration to enable greater storage utilization, faster
single-point heterogeneous provisioning, non-disruptive end of lease
transitions, tiered-optimized storage, online capacity expansion,
local and remote replication and powerful logical data views.
Unlike other solutions, McDATA Virtualizer is a completely
integrated solution and performs to enterprise class requirements. It
can be added to an entire storage fabric by connecting a single
Virtualizer through any port on a switch or director -- an improvement
over other solutions that require multiple appliances, or use of
multiple intelligent blades that are limited by a switch's chassis.
"Future data centers will focus on business requirements over
infrastructure," said Enterprise Strategy Group Founder and Senior
Analyst Steve Duplessie. "The technological design of McDATA's ASM
takes a big stride toward realizing complete Enterprise Infrastructure
Abstraction."
Virtualizer is the first in a series of Advanced Fabric Services
offerings delivered on McDATA's Application Services Module platform.
McDATA ASMs are standalone modules, designed with an open application
program interface (API), so that McDATA can team with OEMs and other
partners to deliver advanced services to existing fabrics, quickly,
non-disruptively and without any SAN hardware replacement
requirements. Meeting the needs of enterprise-class customers, the
highly scalable ASM architecture delivers up to two million virtual
I/O (Input/Output) operations per second (VIOPs) per module. The ASM's
modular architecture allows it to connect into any switch or director,
based on fabric from any vendor or OEM. Unlike appliance offerings,
McDATA's ASMs use a true "split path" architecture, which allows a
single point of control and scalable data movement.
"McDATA understands that customers want easier data access and are
demanding solutions that allow them to focus more time on leveraging
business data and less time figuring out how to technologically
support it," said McDATA Chief Operating Officer Todd Oseth. "That's
why we designed our ASM with an open API that we share with all; and
with a platform that supports a truly integrated solution that can
operate in existing SAN infrastructures and adapt and grow with future
requirements. We worked with StoreAge to offer Virtualizer, and we're
working with others to bring additional fabric services to market in
the future."
McDATA's Virtualizer is available now on a limited basis from
McDATA, with full availability in December.
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ASM/Virtualizer Industry Quotes
Partners
Jeff Bawol, Senior VP and General Manager of Enterprise Software and
Storage (ESS)
Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas
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"Avnet solutions address complex environments," said Jeff Bawol,
senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Software and
Storage (ESS), Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. "While customers
are interested in virtualization, many products do not support
heterogeneous environments or scalability needs. McData's Virtualizer
combines vendor and storage resource independence with scalability and
manageability. It is a product that we believe will meet the
real-world environments of our partners' customers."
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Joe Fannin, CEO
NET Source
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"The concept of adding virtualization by simply adding ASM modules
to existing switching ports would be very attractive to our
customers," said McDATA partner NET Source. "While there are
tremendous management advantages gained from virtualization, having to
completely replace a switch and/or lose switching capabilities at the
fabric level have prevented companies from implementing a solution so
far. McDATA's ASM overcomes those boundaries. Now that the product is
available, we believe our customers will be seriously evaluating it as
a viable option."
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Industry Analysts
Data Mobility Group
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"Heterogeneity has been a major barrier to greater adoption of
virtualization and other advanced fabric services available today,"
said Joe Martins, research director and managing member for Data
Mobility Group. "The McDATA ASM appears to have solved that problem.
In addition to its generous processing power, the ASM uses a rather
extensive open API, and McDATA is welcoming all vendors to port their
solutions to it."
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IDC
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"With today's increasingly complex storage environments,
enterprises need solutions that improve reliability and manageability
for all of their heterogeneous storage assets," said Richard Villars,
Vice President of Storage Systems Research at IDC. "Solutions like
McDATA Virtualizer that deliver common data movement and management
functions across different tiers of networked storage are playing a
critical role in helping IT managers control storage costs and improve
storage asset utilization."
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StorageIO
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"It's great to see McDATA deliver on its vision of an
open solution that allows customers to add advanced fabric services
including transparent data migration and volume management to
their Fibre Channel and iSCSI networks," said Greg Schulz, Founder and
Sr. Analyst the StorageIO Group. "With the ASM, McDATA is delivering
an integrated fabric based storage virtualization solution leveraging
a performance optimized appliance that supports robust storage
services software to enhance storage management tasks in heterogeneous
environments."
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT) is the leading provider of
data access solutions, helping customers build, globally connect,
optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and
WAN environments. With nearly 25 years experience developing SAN
products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the
world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all
networked data.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements about expected future
events that are forward-looking and subject to risks and
uncertainties. Readers are urged to consider statements that include
the terms "believes", "belief", "expects", "plans", "objectives",
"estimates", "anticipates", "intends", "targets", or the like to be
uncertain and forward-looking. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ and vary materially from expectations include, but are not
limited to, McDATA's relationships with EMC, IBM and Hitachi Data
Systems and the level of their orders, aggressive price competition by
numerous other SAN and IP switch suppliers, OEM qualification of our
new products, integration of CNT's sales and marketing functions,
manufacturing constraints, constraints in obtaining third party
product for resale and other risk factors that are disclosed in
McDATA's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These
cautionary statements by McDATA should not be construed as exhaustive
or as any admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by
McDATA. All cautionary statements should be read as being applicable
to all forward-looking statements wherever they appear. McDATA does
not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.