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Finisar Eliminates "Fabric Blindness" Within Enterprise
SAN Infrastructures
Unveils Deep SAN Monitoring and Analysis Solutions Designed to Increase
Application Availability in Today's Complex Enterprise Data Centers
SUNNYVALE, CA, Nov 15, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Finisar
Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR), a technology leader in fiber optic and test
and measurement solutions for high-speed data networks, today unveiled
NetWisdom(R) Enterprise, a family of deep SAN monitoring and analysis
solutions and services that increase application availability and optimize
performance in enterprise storage environments. NetWisdom Enterprise was
created to eliminate "fabric blindness," or the inability to
look deeply into the SAN to diagnose, analyze and prevent outages and
brownouts that increasingly plague today's complex, multi-vendor data
centers. The new software, hardware, and services suite provides real-time
and historical insight into application latency and bandwidth consumption,
early detection of link and device failures, congestion, errors, and advanced
notification of other SAN problems. These issues, if undetected, can cause
network downtime, application slowdown, and ultimately revenue loss for
global enterprises.
"It's ironic that the largest, most sophisticated IT shops in the
world are the ones most likely to have hidden problems," said Steve
Duplessie, Founder, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The issue is visibility
-- or the absolute lack thereof. We have no idea what issues we have,
and where, most of the time. When you add virtual services into the infrastructure,
you only compound the problem. It's like driving blind -- you can wing
it for a while, but sooner or later you will hit something."
While current SAN monitoring solutions such as SAN Fabric Management,
SRM/Storage Management and Framework Management solutions provide insight
into storage capacities, utilizations, and topology, they do not provide
deep visibility into SAN data paths or analysis capabilities on a per
application, per I/O basis. Finisar NetWisdom Enterprise is the only comprehensive
solution that monitors each individual port at the I/O transaction packet
level, allowing administrators to quickly pinpoint the root cause of critical
known or hidden issues. In addition to detecting failed devices, NetWisdom
Enterprise also analyzes deteriorated devices, congested links, and other
errors which cause brownouts or slowdowns.
"While enterprise SAN environments have become a critical part of
today's global business, they have also become increasingly difficult
to manage," said David Buse, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Network Tools Division, Finisar. "With the widespread adoption of
new technologies like storage virtualization, quickly identifying trouble
spots is beyond the skills of many storage administrators. Revenue, profit
and company reputations are at risk. This has made infrastructure monitoring,
analyzing, and diagnosing an absolute must for global businesses. It is
also important to understand that NetWisdom Enterprise was developed not
to replace the current SAN Management, SRM and Framework Management solutions,
but to make them better."
"NetWisdom is paying for itself multiple times every day as we are
constantly being contacted about various issues that we can quickly identify
and respond to in an intelligent manner," states Simon Close, Technical
Team Leader, Halifax Bank of Scotland. "It has been a powerful and
vital addition to our SAN infrastructure."
NetWisdom Enterprise solutions include SAN-wide fabric level monitoring,
end-to-end link and protocol level monitoring, protocol level trace analysis,
a trending database and an intuitive user interface. These essential functions
are required to eliminate "fabric blindness."
Finisar further offers its state-of-the-art SAN monitoring, diagnosis
and analysis technologies as service offerings, delivering benefit to
customers that lack in-house expertise. These services are offered on-demand
or at predetermined intervals.
Finisar delivers NetWisdom Enterprise solutions and services to its valued
customers through strategic, global ecosystem of partners. The company's
solutions improve customer satisfaction levels by significantly reducing
issue resolution time for storage equipment vendors' field service organizations.
This enables storage system integrators and managed service providers
to accurately monitor SLAs and to augment their service offerings with
the deep fabric insights provided by Finisar's technologies.
"Combined with IBM storage and fabric equipment, Finisar NetWisdom
Enterprise products enable an industry unique solution for SAN maintenance
and performance tuning," said Steve Boettcher, Director, Data and
Storage Services at IBM Global Technology Services. "This IBM GS/Finisar
joint solution will enable customers to consistently and continuously
monitor and enhance the availability of their SANs, as well as providing
vital information for smooth change management."
Finisar NetWisdom Enterprise solutions and services provide deep fabric
visibility to quickly diagnose issues and prevent future problems in their
SAN infrastructure thus enabling them to ensure critical enterprise applications
have uninhibited, unrestricted access to the data, every time.
NetWisdom Enterprise solutions and services are available now.
About Finisar
Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) is a technology leader for fiber optic
components and subsystems and network test and monitoring systems. These
products enable high-speed data communications for networking and storage
applications over Gigabit Ethernet Local Area Networks (LANs), Fibre Channel
Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) using
Fibre Channel, IP, SAS, SATA and SONET/SDH protocols. The Company's headquarters
is in Sunnyvale, California, US.
Pricing and Availability
Gillaspy Associates solutions are currently shipping to leading-edge customers.
Register on our website for a demonstration
For more detailed information, product configurations and pricing please
contact Gillaspy Associates at 805-386-0700
Since 1997, Gillaspy Associates has built
a solid reputation for developing strong relationships with our customers
by providing quality solutions and ongoing support.
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