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Finisar Introduces NetWisdom Enterprise Rovers to Extend Scalability
and Enable Monitoring and Analysis of Tiered Storage Networks
NetWisdom Enterprise Rovers Extend Coverage of NetWisdom Enterprise Solution
Cost-Effectively Across the Entire SAN
SUNNYVALE, CA, Apr 17, 2007 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Building
on the industry's most powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing storage
area networks, Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) introduced NetWisdom(R)
Enterprise Rover, a family of intelligent monitoring and analysis solutions
capable of spanning across all SAN links within today's enterprise data
centers. Offering real-time, line-rate support for 4 Gb/s FC SAN infrastructures,
the new Rover functionality integrates physical layer switching technology
with monitoring and analysis capabilities of NetWisdom Enterprise to deliver
a cost-effective approach to complete SAN link protection and optimization.
Finisar's proven NetWisdom Enterprise monitoring solution gives SAN administrators
the ability to diagnose, analyze and prevent application outages and brownouts
that increasingly plague today's complex, multi-vendor data centers. NetWisdom
provides both real-time and trended insight into application latency and
bandwidth consumption, resulting in early detection and advanced notification
of link and device failures, congestion, errors, and other critical SAN
problems.
"Enterprises are expanding the scale and complexity of their SANs
as they connect a wider range of servers and storage systems in their
data centers, and they need to quickly detect hidden problems and identify
the root cause of known issues," said Richard Villars, vice president
of Storage Systems research at IDC. "Solutions like Finisar's NetWisdom
Enterprise that provide independent monitoring and analysis of complex
multi-vendor SANs and the heterogeneous systems connected to them will
play a key role in optimizing application availability and performance."
NetWisdom Enterprise Rover solutions utilize advanced switching and sampling
technology to extend NetWisdom Enterprise's SAN monitoring and analysis
capabilities across the entire SAN infrastructure. By providing end-user
flexibility for the number of links monitored and the frequency of coverage,
NetWisdom Rovers leverage a customer's investment in monitoring tools.
The Rover can increase the number of links that can be monitored with
a single probe and can prioritize and optimize coverage based on how critical
a link is to an organization's operations. Rovers bring cost-effective
protection to all tiers of storage infrastructure, with the most critical
links fully instrumented 24x7 while less critical storage links, such
as near-line systems, may be sampled for errors and pending failures.
The goal is to ensure the highest level of application availability.
"The business value of a company's applications and information ultimately
determines the budget for monitoring its SAN infrastructure," said
Paul Hansen, vice president of marketing, Network Tools, Finisar. "Now
with NetWisdom Enterprise Rovers we can eliminate 'fabric blindness' across
the entire SAN by monitoring every link according to the value it brings
to an organization."
"We have been actively using Finisar NetWisdom Probes and Analyzers
to identify the specific issues causing application disruptions, allowing
us to focus our energies on resolving the root cause of the problems.
This has eliminated finger pointing and substantially reduced resolution
cycle time," said Bob Lembo, director, Storage Services, SUPERVALU,
Inc. "By utilizing Finisar rovers, we can now extend the reach of
the NetWisdom solution across a larger section of our SAN to further improve
our ability to prevent and resolve potential application issues."
Finisar's patent-pending roving technology for NetWisdom Enterprise is
available now in 8-link and 32-link Rover configurations. Entry-level
pricing starts at $11,000. Rover configurations for 72 and 144 links will
be available in June 2007.
About NetWisdom Enterprise
Finisar delivers NetWisdom Enterprise solutions and services to its valued
customers through a global team of partners. The company's solutions improve
customer satisfaction levels by significantly reducing issue resolution
time for storage equipment field service organizations. This enables storage
system integrators and managed service providers to accurately monitor
SLA's. They can also improve their service offerings with the fabric insights
provided by NetWisdom, enabling them to ensure that critical applications
have rapid access to data every time
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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