McData provides backbone for global data centres
McData provides backbone for global data centres
Feb 17, 2005: Enterprises will be able to consolidate the management and security of their data centres, following McData's release of the Intrepid i10K Backbone Director, which allows data to be independently managed, controlled, protected and moved to meet application demands.
It also enables secure SAN island and large fabric consolidation, allowing data to managed from anywhere in the world.
In addition, it accommodates virtualisation, enables tiered storage and provides secure, dynamic partitioning from application to the array via director FlexPar technology.
This technology allows resources to be moved according to service level agreements (SLAs) by application, department or company to meet the growing demands of organisations.
Jason McKnespiey of B&Q plc, spoke about his satisfaction with the technology, having been one of the first customers to use it: "We were especially interested in the Intrepid i10K's Director FlexPars, which provide secure partitioning from the server to the array as the technology dynamically moves resources by application based on demand.
"I haven't seen anything else on the market with all of the features, capabilities, protection and return on investment that the McData Intrepid i10K Director has. The technology has integrated effectively into our existing infrastructure.
"We successfully completed testing with the Intrepid i10K, and found the large cache of configurable buffer-to-buffer credits enables us to potentially extend our SAN far beyond the distance limits other switch vendors are currently offering."
Each director FlexPar delivers hard network partitioning, ensuring complete firewalled separation of all traffic.
Patrick Harr, the vice president of director platforms for McData, added: "There are four key areas which define a backbone director: network consolidation, dynamic network partitioning, 10Gbit/s intelligent network services and carrier-class availability for the enterprise.
"Only McData's Intrepid i10K Backbone Director delivers the complete backbone functionality required by Global 500 customers. With the i10K, customers can now cost-effectively implement a tiered, Global Enterprise Data Centre network - a network which provides real-time information access to information anytime, anywhere."
The Intrepid i10K Backbone Director also compliments McData's Intrepid 6140 director.
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