(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Brocade (www.brocade.com) announced on Thursday it has introduced converged fabric-based solutions designed to simplify network architectures by allowing users to transition to highly virtualized infrastructures where information and services are available anywhere in the cloud.
Introduced at Brocade Technology Day, the solutions are based on customer-driven demand for simplified IT architectures and cost reduction.
The solutions will optimize data center networks to support virtual servers, applications and data, enabling customers to build large, highly intelligent, converged fabrics based on industry-standard data center bridging technology.
The new Brocade converged fabric solutions include a wide range of solutions customized to support virtualized data centers, starting with Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching, which addresses the unique requirements of virtualized data centers.
Brocade Virtual Access Layer offers a logical layer between Brocade converged fabric and server virtualization hypervisors that will help ensure a consistent interface and set of services for virtual machines connected to the network.
Brocade Open Virtual Compute Blocks partners Brocade with leading systems and IT infrastructure vendors to build tested and verified data center blueprints for highly scalable and cost-effective deployment of VMs on converged fabrics.
Brocade Network Advisor provides an element management toolset that will help provide industry-standard and customized support for network management, storage management, virtualization management and data center orchestration tools.
Finally, Brocade will offer multiprotocol support. The company’s converged fabrics are designed to transport all types of network and storage traffic over a single wire to reduce complexity and help ensure a simplified migration path from current technologies.
The solutions are developed on standards-based networking technologies, making them open and highly interoperable with a wide ecosystem of computing, storage and software products, including the Brocade 8000 Fibre Channel over Ethernet Switch and blade, the Brocade NetIron MLX Series and Brocade Converged Network Adapters.
“While server virtualization provides certain cost-efficiencies, it creates complexities at the network level and for network administrators, which need to be addressed through network advancements,” says Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise and Consumer Research at Yankee Group. “Building of new data center networking architectures has to be done in an evolutionary manner that preserves the hundreds of billions of dollars that customers have already invested in server, storage and networking hardware and software within their networks. Brocade has the required heritage and knowhow in the data center to simplify the inherent complexities in this migration process.”
The Brocade converged fabric solutions will be available in the first quarter of 2011.
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