 |
Client McDATA is the leading provider of storage networking solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize, and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN, and WAN environments. With nearly 25 years of experience developing SAN products, services, and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked data.
Product Magpie incorporated a McDATA partner vendor's SAN equipment into the same Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Management (EFCM) used by McDATA's SAN equipment. This allowed McDATA to merge the vendor's equipment into their offering, giving the two products one look and feel.
Project Magpie worked with both McDATA and the partner vendor to bring the project together into one working solution. Magpie's experience allowed them to focus on the architecture and to design a solution that brought the two products together. Their uniqueness as a trusted advisor was highlighted by providing early warning and focused attention on potential problem areas before they arose.
Magpie delivered a solution to McDATA in two releases. The first release integrated the vendor's SAN equipment into the fabric functions of the EFCM. These functions included:
Zoning
Discovery
Master Event Logging
Call Home
Group Configuration Manager (GCM)
The second release integrated the vendor's SAN equipment into the security functions of the EFCM, known as SANtegrity.
Outcome The project was successfully completed on time in about nine weeks and within budget due to Magpie's expertise in Java, Swing, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), client/server architectures, JUnit (unit testing), and QFtest (functional testing). Storage Area Networking (SAN) principles were required to develop the simulator.
Because of Magpie's agile development processes, this was accomplished without any reliance on hardware delivery.
Magpie was able to ramp up and start the project within one week of the initial request from McDATA.
