BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 16, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Companies store and manage large amounts of data, but obtaining meaningful usage statistics for all of the data is difficult, creating a "performance visibility gap". Today, McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT), the leading provider of data access solutions, and IntelliMagic, a leading provider of products for analysis and modeling of storage systems, announced a strategic reseller partnership that will help companies maximize the performance and utilization of their storage environments. IntelliMagic's software is the only performance management/capacity planning software on the market to address this visibility gap. Through this reseller relationship, McDATA can better meet the requirements and deliver more value to its large, global customer base.
There are several issues contributing to the "performance visibility gap". Reporting methods commonly used today provide component level performance reporting, rather than end to end, system level metrics. Furthermore, some very important performance metrics are not natively available and must be manually computed. In addition, commonly used methods lack the intelligence about the architecture and the data, making them less effective than the intelligent analysis available with IntelliMagic's software.
IntelliMagic's software products include solutions for both tape and disk storage optimization. IT managers gain superior visibility into I/O performance using IntelliMagic's predictive analytics and reporting capabilities. The products allow them to monitor the usage of their storage systems and determine at early stages where bottlenecks are starting to occur so that they can diagnose and avoid I/O performance issues. Managers can also explore the capacity left for growth and predict the effect on performance that changes to various subsystem components will have.
"Companies live and breathe on data access," said Todd Oseth, chief operating officer, McDATA. "If there are weaknesses in a storage environment that can be manipulated to better utilize the current infrastructure, or pinpointed for possible upgrades, then access to data is optimized. IntelliMagic's software will allow our customers to do that."
As storage needs increase, data is shared between increasing numbers of host servers. This requires a consolidated view on subsystem performance. IntelliMagic's products are designed to consolidate measurement data across host servers, thus providing managers with all the information they need to research the current situation or to plan for upgrades. Companies will also find IntelliMagic products provide the most complete planning and monitoring capabilities of commonly used remote copy solutions such as SRDF/A, TrueCopy, Global Mirror, XRC, and others.
"We believe that our products will add to McDATA's offering by providing advanced storage monitoring and sizing capabilities," said Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer, Managing Director of IntelliMagic. "McDATA customers will benefit by gaining new insights into their storage environment, and this will increase their ability to deliver the required service levels for data access performance."
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (NASDAQ Global Select: MCDTA/MCDT) is the leading provider of data access solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and WAN environments. With nearly 25 years experience developing SAN products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked data.
About IntelliMagic (www.IntelliMagic.net)
IntelliMagic, a privately held company with headquarters in the Netherlands, is a leading provider of enterprise storage performance analysis and storage sizing software. IntelliMagic products have been used at thousands of sites around the world by vendors and consultants and have recently been made available for direct end-user licensing.
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