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McDATA Corporation Delivers SMI-S Open Interface for Fabric Intelligence

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McDATA Corporation, a leading provider of storage networking solutions, has announced the availability of its Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Interface. The SMI-S Interface is certified as SNIA-CTP v1.1 compliant and provides a common information model (CIM) provider for McDATA Intrepid directors and Sphereon fabric switches. This open interface gives customers and partners access to McDATA fabric intelligence, enabling them to discover, monitor, and configure McDATA devices.

Key Takeaways:

  • McDATA's SMI-S Interface is certified as SNIA-CTP v1.1 compliant, ensuring interoperability with third-party management applications.
  • The interface can be utilized by third-party management applications to discover, monitor, and configure McDATA devices.
  • McDATA's SMI-S Interface Release 1.0 provides an SMI-S-based integration platform for leveraging network and fabric intelligence of Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM).
  • HP System Insight Manager and HP Storage Essentials support McDATA's SMI-S standards-based interface, enabling customers to create and integrate multi-vendor environments and enable switch-level monitoring and configuration.
  • McDATA plans to integrate IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with McDATA environments using SMI-S, giving customers enhanced ability to manage their SANs from the application to the spindle and everything in between.
  • The Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Management Initiative has developed and standardized interoperable storage management technologies, including SMI-S, which allows storage vendors to target development efforts on a single standard interface.
  • SMI-S allows end-users to lower the total cost of ownership as management, integration of resources, and interoperability improve network-wide.

Statistics:

  • McDATA has nearly 25 years of experience developing SAN products, services, and solutions.
  • McDATA connects more than two-thirds of all networked data through its storage networking solutions.
  • McDATA's customers include the world's largest data centers.

Sources:

  • M2 PressWIRE (21 October 2005) - McDATA Corporation: McDATA delivers SMI-S open interface gives customers and partners access to McDATA fabric intelligence.
  • McDATA Corporation official website (www.mcdata.com)

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