SANavigator Software Earns 2002 Editor's Choice Award From Network Computing Magazine
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- SANavigator Inc., a worldwide leader in SAN management software, earned the prestigious Networking Computing Editor's Choice award for the industry's best SAN management software. In the magazine's Jan. 7 issue, SANavigator(TM) by McDATA took top honors following an extensive evaluation process.
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``Network Computing awarding SANavigator its Editor's Choice for SAN management software is a great honor for us,'' said Robert Wright, general manager of SANavigator and McDATA vice president. ``This award affirms SANavigator's commitment to providing our customers with the capabilities necessary to move from reactive to proactive management of their storage networks.''
SANavigator's version 2.5 took top honors in the testing to earn the magazine's Editor's Choice award. The testers especially favored SANavigator's visualization and mapping features, noting ``The visualization feature in SANavigator is outstanding, and the physical view of the SAN is a great boon, especially for large storage networks ... As far as mapping functions go, SANavigator was the winner here as well, with its superior identification of SAN devices and clear, concise diagrams of our test SAN environment. The add-on planning features of SANavigator are a boon to the SAN designer. SANavigator also has a traffic-monitoring plug-in that integrates with the visualization picture and can be useful in spotting bottlenecks.''
The testing was conducted in Network Computing's Real-World Labs in Green Bay, Wis., where the magazine's editors evaluated the software's ability to manage devices, change configurations and launch vendor specific tools, among other things, on two heterogeneous SANs.
SANavigator is a Java-based storage management application that offers unprecedented flexibility, complementing other storage management applications, utilities and tools from major storage vendors. It includes a powerful auto discovery engine that performs a complete inventory of all SAN resources and presents an intuitive visual map of the SAN showing all devices and their interconnections. With just a few mouse clicks an administrator can establish new data path zoning, create redundant paths and perform other management routines. With SANavigator, administrators have exceptional freedom in choosing the number of clients and server components to install, and in selecting the machines on which to install them.
About SANavigator Inc.
SANavigator Inc. is a leading supplier of innovative and powerful storage management software. With its expertise in all aspects of storage networking and software design and development, SANavigator Inc. has quickly emerged as a technology leader in SAN management software. The company's powerful SANavigator management software provides true vendor and platform-independent management of entry-level through complex heterogeneous SAN environments, and gives the storage network administrator confidence that the network is operating properly and the data is available. SANavigator is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA/MCDT). For more information on SANavigator, visit the company's web site at www.sanavigator.com or call (408) 232-1000.
SANavigator, SANmap and McDATA are registered trademarks or trademarks of SANavigator, Inc., and McDATA Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other products, brands and company names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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