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Brocade Delivers Industry-First Gen 6 Fibre Channel Directors for the All-Flash Data CenterDigital Transformation Driven by Storage Innovation Requires a Modern Storage Network | ||
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced the industry’s first Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors for mission-critical storage connectivity and business resiliency solutions designed for the all-flash data center. This extends the company’s leadership in offering the industry’s most innovative and widely deployed Fibre Channel storage network solutions, building on the first Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch that Brocade delivered in March 2016. The new Brocade® X6 director family and the Brocade SX6 extension blade for Fibre Channel, Fibre Connection (FICON) and IP storage replication, combined with Brocade Fabric Vision™ technology,enables customers to drive always-on business operations, eliminate performance bottlenecks and adapt to the requirements of digital organizations.
As organizations continue to digitize and adapt to new workloads, they need a modern storage networkthat supports business agility. Fibre Channel fabrics are the common thread that connects organizations to their most critical applications and data. Ninety-six percent of banks, insurance companies and retailers rely on Fibre Channelas the most trusted network infrastructure for storage. Gen 6 Fibre Channel provides the digital enterprise with non-stop availability and incredible performance required for tomorrow’s hyperscale data centers.
“Legacy networks will bottleneck flashstorage minimizing the performance and economic benefits of this game-changing technology,” said Jack Rondoni, vice president of storage networking at Brocade. “Brocade’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions unleash the full value of today’s flash technology and enable tomorrow’s next-generation flash storage based on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe).NVMe will be the next disruptive storage technology in the data center and customers will be able to seamlessly integrate NVMe over fabrics with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel.”
Network automation is key to modernizing data centers. According to a global CIO survey[1], 75 percent of respondents stated that the network is impacting their organizations' ability to achieve business goals. The lack of network automation and integration of the network with other IT operations is the single biggest inhibitor to capitalizing on digitization.
Brocade has led the industry in automating storage networks with the industry's first implementation of RESTful API support in Brocade Network Advisor.This complete network-lifecycle solution brings an organization’s information together into one simple, easy-to-use command-and-control application. Itprovides a programmable web-based interface through standard REST APIs to automate operational tasks such as zoning, scripting and reporting. In addition, standard REST APIs enable customers to use Brocade Fabric Vision technology to easily analyze fabric-wide health and performance. Brocade is also a key supporter of the OpenStack storage community, contributing Fibre Channel zone management to the OpenStack Cinder project.
New Innovations in Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel Enables Data Center Modernization The Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio combines innovative hardware, Brocade Fabric Vision technologyand ground-breaking integrated monitoring for storage IO and virtual machine(VM) performance. Thisdelivers the industry’s highest level of operational stability while redefining application performance for hyperscale, mission-critical storage. New innovations in Brocade’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio include:
Hitachi Data Systems is shipping the Brocade Gen 6 directors, blades and switch today. “Digital transformation enables businesses to deliver superior customer experiences. That cannot be accomplished without a modern and agile IT infrastructure that delivers information to customers faster than ever before,” said Bob Madaio, vice president of infrastructure solutions marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. “The combination of the Hitachi flash portfolio with Brocade’s Gen 6 directors, blades and switch enables businesses to transform operations and serve data to customers radically faster so they get what they want, when they want it.”
Broad Industry Support from Brocade Partners, Flash Vendors and Industry Analysts
Availability Brocade X6 directors and Brocade SX6 extension blade are available now through Brocade andits channel partners.Other Brocade OEM partners will start shipping them in the second half of 2016. Brocade Network Advisor and IO Insight are available today. VM Insight will be included as part of Fabric Vision technology in the first half of 2017.
Additional Resources · Blog: Flash Forward with Gen 6 Fibre Channel · Brocade X6 Directors Data Sheet · Brocade SX Extension Blade Data Sheet · Accelerating Oracle Data Warehousing with Emulex and Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel · White Paper: Data Center Modernization with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel · theCUBEVideo: How Gen 6 Unleashes Flash and NVMe for the Modern Data Center
About Brocade Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations turn their networks into platforms for business innovation. With solutions spanning public and private data centers to the network edge, Brocade is leading the industry in its transition to the New IP network infrastructures required for today’s era of digital business. (www.brocade.com)
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Information based on IHS Technology SAN and Converged Data Center Network Equipment Market Tracker - Regional, Q2 2016. Information is not an endorsement of Brocade Communication Systems. Any reliance on these results is at the third party's own risk.
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