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ActiveState Software Case Study: Finisar Corporation

Programming the administrative tasks on the Xgig Server should be done quickly and easily. The challenge was to mitigate technical risk, especially when integrating third-party software into its own enterprise products and make writing Perl scripts faster and easier. Before selecting ActivePerl, Finisar conducted extensive software quality assurance testing to...

Tags: Software, Perl Script, Finisar, ActiveState Tool Corp., Baxter, Development Tools, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management

Case studies 2009-01-01

Best Practices for a 4Gb/S Storage Area Network Infrastructure: Keep Application Data Flowing Error-Free

Many data centers are in the process of moving from 2Gbit/s (2G) Fibre Channel FC infrastructures to the new 4Gbit/s (4G) FC standard. The increase in data transfer rates is instantly beneficial from a performance perspective. However, transitioning to 4G creates some real challenges for architects. In particular, the potential...

Tags: 4G, Fibre Channel, Performance, Finisar, Best Practice, Cellular Phones, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Performance Management, Wireless, Storage, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-10-01

Creating Performance-Based SAN SLAs Using Finisar's NetWisdom

Storage Area Networks SANs play an increasingly critical role in application performance and the function of information throughout an enterprise. More-and-more, organizations are looking to Service Level Agreements SLAs as a means to quantify and enforce SAN effectiveness. This paper explains that many enterprises think of SAN SLAs in terms...

Tags: Performance, SAN, Finisar, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-05-01

SAN Performance Monitoring Is Essential to Maintaining SAN Uptime: Finisar's NetWisdom Monitoring Tool Provides Crucial SAN Statistics That Greatly Enhance Existing Storage Resource Management (SRM) Offerings

Maintaining SAN uptime is imperative in today's business environment. Cost of SAN downtime can add up to more than $100,000 per minute according to recent reports from RBC Capital. This paper describes how Finisar's NetWisdom product adds enormous value to popular SRM systems (from EMC, HDS, IBM, HP, Veritas, CA,...

Tags: SAN, Finisar, Uptime, SAN Performance Monitoring, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-05-01

A More Effective Approach to SAN Capacity Planning

User demands for data are dynamic. At certain times of the day or month, user requests for data and applications can skyrocket, putting stress on SAN resources. From end-of-month accounting to mid-morning data processing, business demands on the SAN can create bottlenecks - or even the failure of critical systems...

Tags: Network, SAN, Finisar, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Networking, Hardware

White papers

SAN Performance Monitoring is Essential to Maintaining SAN Uptime

Maintaining SAN uptime is imperative in today's business environment. Cost of SAN downtime can add up to more than $100,000 per minute according to recent reports from RBC Capital. This paper describes how Finisar's NetWisdom product adds enormous value to popular SRM systems (from EMC, HDS, IBM, HP, Veritas, CA,...

Tags: Performance, SAN, Finisar, Uptime, SAN Performance Monitoring, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers

Diagnosis and Prevention in SAN Performance Management

Diagnosing and preventing storage network slowdowns necessitates a set of analysis capabilities, particularly for IT organizations managing high levels of complexity in their Storage Area Network SAN infrastructures. Systems that are both complex and critical require powerful solutions with requirements beyond the capacity of industry-standard SRM tools. Finisar's NetWisdom is...

Tags: SAN, Finisar, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

White papers

Halifax Bank of Scotland Manages its Ever-Expanding SAN

The Halifax Bank of Scotland HBOS is the UK's largest mortgage and savings provider. As one of the UK's leading financial organizations, HBOS has a huge presence in the community not only through the products and services that it provides to individuals, but by employing more than 67,000 people. With...

Tags: Finisar, U.K., Halifax Bank Of Scotland, Banking, Mortgages, Product Marketing, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Marketing

White papers

Finisar Corporation Uses Unicenter ServicePlus Service Desk to Implement ITIL Best Practices and Address Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliancy Requirements

One of Finisar's primary IT objectives is to enable their international Information Technology IT and Oracle IT departments located in Ipoh, Malaysia, Shanghai, China and the United States to operate as a seamless global organization to support Finisar's rapidly growing business. Early on Finisar determined that to meet their overall...

Tags: Service Desk, CA Unicenter, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Finisar, Computer Associates International Inc., ITIL, Sarbanes-Oxley, It Services, Regulatory Compliance, Process Improvement, It Management, Strategy, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Quality, Business Operations, It service Management, Management

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Additional Resources

Wireshark 1.2.3 (Mac)

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the standard in many industries. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Hundreds of developers around the world have contributed to it, and it is still under active development. Read/write many different aWireshark is the world's...

Tags: Radcom Ltd., Apple Macintosh, Network, Visual Networks Inc., Industry, Analysis, Wireshark, Wireshark Development, Networking, Linux, WANs, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Wireshark 1.2.3 (Windows)

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the standard in many industries. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Hundreds of developers around the world have contributed to it, and it is still under active development. Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump...

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, Wireshark, WANs, Networking, LANs, Network Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Wireshark (Power Mac) 0.99.5 (Mac)

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the standard in many industries. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Hundreds of developers around the world have contributed to it, and it is still under active development. Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, Apple Power Mac, Wireshark, WANs, Desktops, Networking, LANs, Network Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-04-28