What's on offer from Brocade for Cloud?

Brocade provides Cloud technology solutions for Service Providers (those operating Public Clouds) and very large enterprise organisations (those building Private Clouds). In both cases, large numbers of end user customers are utilising hundreds of applications, on hundreds of physical and virtual servers, demanding high availability of data.

Brocade offers the most performant, scalable and energy efficient open standards products in the market, and as network convergence becomes an increasingly popular strategy, Brocade’s strong proposition in this space becomes more evident. Consequently, whilst Brocade’s entire SAN portfolio contributes to a successful Cloud proposition the following products stand out as market leaders:

HBAs

Unbeatable I/O performance, quality of service guarantees and high availability via hot swap optics are just three of the many reasons which Brocade’s HBA products are a compelling proposition for Cloud Computing.

DCFM Management Software

As infrastructures become larger and more virtualised to meet growing commercial requirements, they become more difficult to manage. DCFM (Data Centre Fabric Manager) offers centralised management of the data path all the way from the storage device to the virtual machine.

DCX

This is the most scalable modular product on the market offering unbeatable performance being 4x more powerful and 10x more energy efficient than any other Backbone on the market. Coupled with its advanced virtualisation features DCX offers greater consolidation of servers, storage, networks, and datacentres themselves to reduce equipment, facility, and overhead costs.

DCX is built to accommodate future technology, utilising new Fibre Channel over Ethernet and Converged Enhanced Ethernet network protocols. Additional software features such as ISL Trunking, Adaptive Networking, Logical Partitioning and Integrated Routing create the right building block for Cloud and the future.

VA40-FC

This is a specific switch, designed to enable rapid deployment of new applications which require access to the SAN, with minimal manual involvement since there is no configuration to do on the VA40-FC itself. This enables administrators to rapidly deploy and provision new virtual machines in the Cloud with minimal administration.

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