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"We chose McDATA because they have long been established in high-availability storage solutions. Now, every department can migrate their file systems, servers and storage into the SAN. This lets them take advantage of data allocation, centralized backup and restore services. Overall, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a whole will save a considerable amount of money due to the ongoing server consolidation and the doubling of the SAN storage capacities in the next months," said Juergen Winkelmann from the Department Informatikdienste at ETH Zurich. The McDATA solution delivered the expected foundation for ETH's SAN. They wanted high connectivity, scalability, high performance and central management. They also wanted to improve the range of individual services to each of the 200 departments. Most importantly, ETH Zurich wanted to install the new SAN solution non-disruptively. The McDATA-based core-to-edge solution was implemented during running operations and links three data centers over two fabrics with Intrepid(R) Directors at the core and Sphereon(TM) Fabric Switches at the remote sites. This multi-fabric site links the main data center with a heterogeneous set of servers, mainframe computers, and HP and EMC disk subsystems. "The institutes of ETH can now migrate their dispersed stored data into their SAN over multiple locations and distances, allowing for flexible management and allocation of storage space. ETH Zurich's upgrade from legacy switches to McDATA Directors was based on the long term ROI of the solution, yet the implementation has shown immediate results," said Mike Gustafson, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for McDATA. "McDATA solutions are known throughout the world for reliability, availability, business protection and the ability to inter-network existing installations." McDATA is the expert provider of Multi-Capable Storage Networking Solutions -- hardware, software and services -- that enable partners and customers around the world to reduce the total cost of storage management today, and be ready to adapt to the real-time information demands of tomorrow. Entrenched in over 8,000 data centers worldwide, McDATA solutions are at the heart of more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 storage network data centers, powering the latest e-business applications, customer databases, financial traffic and other mission-critical data. Customers leverage McDATA's multi-capable solutions to realize immediate cost savings, reduce their investment risk, ensure the continuity of their operations and adapt to changing business requirements.