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, etc.) by adding key performance monitoring data and statistics. Knowledge and awareness of these statistics enable SAN Managers to better understand their complex SAN environments in order to maintain the health and uptime of their network.