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New Product Will Improve Backup and Recovery Efforts across
Multiple Storage Formats
McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT), a leading
provider of data access solutions, today announced the availability of
its Virtual Tape Library (VTL). The VTL is a disk-to-disk-to-tape
solution that enables efficient backup leveraging both disk and tape
media. It improves backup and restore performance and reliability
while leveraging the current systems used. As the amount of data a
company must store increases, these factors become more pronounced in
a tape environment.
"Many companies are required to fulfill regulatory obligations
that go beyond what tape can provide," said Raj Das, vice president of
product marketing, McDATA. "With the McDATA Virtual Tape Library,
customers can get the functionality from their existing investments in
tape while taking advantage of the features of disk providing faster
more reliable backup and restore."
Companies that utilize tape are limited in the amount of time they
have to backup their data. Regulatory and corporate governance have
contributed to larger amounts of data to protect and retain over
longer periods of time. These increasing amounts of data lead to
longer backup times that cannot be completed in the amount of time
provided. If the backup is not complete, data can be missed in the
process and this exposes the company to possible litigation and
regulatory risks. Restore performance and reliability is also a
significant challenge as organizations attempt to recover from data
dispersed onto multiple physical tapes. The VTL emulates physical tape
libraries and drives while using disk to improve backup and restore
performance and reliability to help companies meet their backup and
recovery objectives.
McDATA VTL provides better accessibility in a reliable and secure
fashion. Tape is a linear media that cannot be randomly accessed and
must be rewound. It is subject to moisture, dirt and other physical
damage that can compromise its reliability. Tapes can also be easily
lost or stolen from facilities increasing security risks. Plus, the
complexity of recovery in a remote site combined with the inherent
reliability and performance limitations of tape magnify the
challenges. The VTL solves these problems by leveraging any disk to
emulate the physical tape media improving reliability and performance.
The VTL can attach to physical libraries to import and export backup
data to/from physical tapes, allowing portability without changing the
data format so that the backup software can still read the physical
tape without the product. Furthermore, it can replicate backup data
across IP to easily enable off-site copies of virtual tapes.
McDATA has vast experience working with both enterprise backup
software and VTL and can help design and implement a system that
maximizes local recovery, storage utilization and remote backup and
recovery operations.
The McDATA VTL is generally available through McDATA and select
McDATA resellers.
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of
storage networking 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.
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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, integration of CNT's sales
and marketing functions, manufacturing constraints, constraints in
obtaining third party product for resale and other risk factors that
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