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I like to see this kind of joined efforts. biz.yahoo.com SOURCE: McDATA Corporation McDATA Spearheads Fibre Channel Networking Standards Initiative BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- McDATA Corporation announced today that Fibre Channel switch manufacturers Ancor Communications, Brocade Communications Systems, Gadzoox Networks and Vixel Corporation have agreed to combine forces with McDATA in a multi-vendor switch initiative aimed at defining basic fabric interoperability by year end. ''We keep in very close touch with corporate users. In our regularly scheduled executive advisory councils, these customers continue to raise the interoperability requirements,'' remarked Michael Klayko, executive vice president of McDATA Sales and Marketing. ''They are in complete agreement that interoperability is the number one critical element to successful deployment of Fibre Channel fabrics.'' McDATA historically has been and continues to be very focused on the high availability requirements of large corporations. Klayko pointed out, ''McDATA's unique position, at the backbone of SANs in Fortune 1000 accounts, precipitated the initiative and accelerated our efforts to work more closely with the other switch manufacturers.'' ''Until the appropriate SAN standards are in place -- and products reflect those standards -- enterprises will be reluctant to make a major investment in SAN infrastructure. That is why a process for defining, reviewing, and approving SAN standards is so important,'' stated David Hill, senior storage and storage management analyst of the Aberdeen Group. ''We're very concerned about the lack of agreement and potential for interoperability among the major storage networking vendors,'' stated John Manera of the Polk Company. ''Our company cannot realize the long-term benefits of what Fibre Channel fabrics have to offer without a fundamental agreement on the infrastructure layer. I encourage the major switch players to get together and get the standards work finished before getting too far down the road.'' ''Industry experts worry that lagging standards, especially those core network elements mentioned above, will push back SAN implementation. That's why corporations will be mostly exploring their options this year rather than implementing SANs in a huge way,'' said Mike Kahn, chairman of The Clipper Group, a technology consulting firm in Wellesley, Mass. McDATA began the initiative to raise awareness in the industry that the ultimate users, the corporate customers, want interoperability. ''Open standards and interoperability are the only way to protect customer investments. They're also the most effective means to drive the market forward,'' stated Jeff Vogel, vice president of McDATA Marketing and System Integration Services. Vogel pointed out, ''McDATA is so committed to interoperability that we are willing to make our extensive systems integration lab available for interoperability testing among the initiative's various switch products.'' McDATA has done extensive interoperability testing to prove that applications running under Solaris, NT, HP-UX and AIX can share enterprise-class storage devices built by Amdahl, EMC, HDS, StorageTek and Sun, as well as virtually any tape library. About McDATA McDATA Corporation is the leading supplier of data center networking systems, including Director and switch products for use in enterprise storage applications and services. McDATA offers enterprise-class solutions for open systems that include data center-centric, enterprise-wide network management for the complete line. McDATA's end-to-end solutions provide IT organizations with the tools and methodologies to implement robust storage area networks. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, McDATA has more than 330 employees worldwide. Information about McDATA can be found at www.mcdata.com. McDATA and the McDATA logo are registered trademarks of McDATA Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. SOURCE: McDATA Corporation Related News Categories: computers