IBM, WITH MCDATA, SETS PRECEDENT BY OFFERING COMPLETE, INTEGRATED, OPEN SANs.McDATA Corp., a Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure company, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp. announced a worldwide reseller agreement under which IBM will resell the McDATA ED-5000 Enterprise Fibre Channel Director and management software as a core addition to the IBM Enterprise Storage Area Network. IBM is the first company to offer all of the key components, such as servers, software, storage, services and director-class switches A fault-tolerant Fibre Channel switch that typically has a high port count and may serve as a central switch to other fabrics. See Fibre Channel. , for highly available enterprise Fibre Channel SANs. Data becomes inherently more valuable as it is shared and more productive as it is accessible and available. The combination of McDATA and IBM products The following is a list of products from the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s, and spanning punched card machinery, time clocks, and typewriters, via mainframe computers and minicomputers, to microprocessors, PCs, provides highly available data through a reliable infrastructure that enables on-demand information. Both McDATA's ED-5000 Director and Enterprise Fabric Connectivity (EFC EFC Expected Family Contribution EFC Expect(ed) Further Clearance EFC Evangelical Fellowship of Canada EFC Evangelical Free Church EFC Eastfield College EFC Everton Football Club EFC Electronic Fee Collection ) management software feature key benefits such as high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and scalability for implementing server and storage consolidation in enterprise environments. Server and storage consolidation enables data to be accessible and drives down total cost of ownership by maximizing storage usage. |
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