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Finisar's NetWisdom Enterprise Earns IBM System Storage Proven(R) Designation
| Source: Finisar
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - September 17, 2007) - A world leader in high-speed communications
testing and monitoring technology, Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ : FNSR ) today
announced that its NetWisdom® Enterprise products have successfully
completed interoperability testing with a broad spectrum of IBM's System
Storage products and have been confirmed as IBM System Storage Proven®.
The IBM System Storage Proven program builds on IBM's already extensive
interoperability efforts to develop and deliver products and solutions that
work together with third-party products that represent best practice in
storage.
"Finisar's NetWisdom Enterprise family provides complete visibility into
Enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) operation. It enables enterprise
storage organizations to quickly get to the bottom of real and perceived
SAN issues," said Paul Hansen, vice president of marketing at Finisar.
"Our participation in IBM's System Storage Proven program demonstrates that
Finisar and IBM are committed to providing the highest quality solution for
SAN performance and availability management."
NetWisdom Enterprise is a family of SAN monitoring and analysis solutions
that increase application availability and optimize performance in
enterprise storage environments. NetWisdom Enterprise eliminates 'fabric
blindness,' the inability to understand traffic flows, outages, and
slowdowns that increasingly plague today's complex, multi-vendor data
centers.
Finisar's comprehensive product suite includes NetWisdom software, Fibre
Channel probes, enterprise rovers, Xgig® protocol analyzers, and high
density optical traffic analysis points (TAPs). These products provide
real-time and historical insight into application latency, bandwidth
consumption, load balancing, and other performance metrics. NetWisdom
provides early detection of link and device failures, congestion, errors,
and advanced notification of other SAN problems. These issues, if
undetected, can cause network downtime, application slowdown, and
ultimately revenue loss for global enterprises.
The IBM System Storage Proven program recognizes the ability of independent
hardware and software vendors to build high-quality storage solutions with
the latest technology. IBM System Storage Proven testing enables
enterprise storage operators to reduce SAN design time and deploy best
practice solutions by using IBM pre-tested building blocks.
Extensive testing done through the IBM System Storage Proven program
demonstrates interoperability of the NetWisdom solution with IBM System
Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC), IBM System Storage DS4000, IBM System
Storage DS6000, and IBM System Storage DS8000 series products. NetWisdom
Enterprise, industry's unique SAN performance and availability management
solution, can now be deployed with IBM System Storage products to maximize
the performance and availability of Enterprise SAN infrastructures.
About Finisar
Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ : FNSR ) is a global technology leader for fiber
optic components and subsystems and network test and monitoring systems.
These products enable high-speed voice, video and data communications for
networking, storage and wireless applications over Local Area Networks
(LANs), Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)
using Ethernet, Fibre Channel, IP, SAS, SATA and SONET/SDH protocols. The
Company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. More information
can be found at www.finisar.com.