So, in 2002, EDB standardized on a wide range of McData Fibre Channel kit, including Intrepid Directors and Sphereon Fabric Switches. The company also installed EMCs Connetrix Manager, which is EMCs version of McDatas Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager.
As well as being implemented at EDBs primary data center, the McData kit was also implemented at the companys backup site, which is located some 26 kilometers away.
But wherever there are winners, there are also losers. EDB chose the McData solution over kit from its previous supplier Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD), which declined to provide comment for this article. The scaleability of our Brocade legacy devices wasnt keeping up with the growth of our customers data, says Børre Christian Børresen, EDB IT operations manager of storage/SAN infrastructure and services.
We had to schedule Sunday downtime to add ports and complete firmware upgrades. With the McData solution, were able to do all these things without compromising our customers access to their data and ASP applications.
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