Open, Efficient, Switching Solution for Enterprise-to-Edge Connectivity

Currently, over 60% of critical enterprise data resides at the workgroup level in independent low-cost servers, leaving that data unprotected with limited availability and utilization. IT managers are challenged with extending data center-class reliability, availability and serviceability to the fabric edge. McDATA's ES-1000 Switch extends these advantages by providing single-source connectivity between the data center core and increasingly mission-critical workgroup data.

The McDATA ES-1000 Switch provides an ideal way to consolidate workgroup servers and storage into a seamless, well-managed workgroup or "mini" SAN. Consolidating servers with the ES-1000 Switch allows IT managers to gain control of the runaway costs associated with managing, scaling, and protecting edge data. With the ES-1000 Switch, you can connect up to eight devices allowing common storage, backups and management. The ES-1000 Switch extends data center-class high availability and reliability to the workgroup through its redundant power supplies and hot-swappable power and cooling features. It's plug and play capability reduces and simplifies installation time.

While consolidating distributed servers and storage into mini SANs increases storage utilization, management costs remain high and data sharing is still limited. With the ES-1000 Switch fabric port, you can create an enterprise storage solution by centralizing data into a single enterprise SAN based on your highly available director-based backbone. In this way, the enterprise storage network is centrally managed from the data center, dramatically reducing management costs. Data is accessible enterprise-wide, and is backed up to central tape libraries—improving data protection. Data center experience and methods now extend from the core to the edge.