McDATA buys CNT to ease storage networking difficulties
McDATA buys CNT to ease storage networking difficulties
McDATA has bought CNT so that it can provide better services to its customers for expanding and maintaining network storage capabilities, including support for data migration and disaster recovery across remote locations.
The main purpose of the acquisition is to help McDATA achieve its vision of delivering and enabling the Global Enterprise Data Infrastructure, which is about optimisations, consolidation, enabling business continuity, while driving towards network-based intelligence.
The enhanced services that McDATA expects to be provided through the acquisition of CNT, include: planning and strategy development; healthchecks, assessments, design and optimisation; implementation and integration and ongoing support and management.
Gary Gysin, senior vice president of worldwide sales and services, said that the acquisition of CNT would allow customers to be supported with difficult projects.
"This will include consolidating SAN islands and managing network systems so that compliance and regulations issues are properly addressed. We will be able to help organisations reduce the risk of mitigation and they will now be in safe hands, because both McDATA and CNT have so many years experience with storage networking.
"We will be able to provide better project management to our customers now too which will help them with the design, architecture of storage structures and implementation of storage networking say from Sydney to Singapore. In addition, we will be able to help organisation make better utilisation of their systems and switch from one open system to another."
Gysin added that McDATA is determined to be the leader in the storage-networking dogfight and is even looking at using Wide Area File Services to match Brocade's attack on solving information sharing between countries.
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