GEC NEWS WIREThe integration will cut the cost of storage management for data center managers
Brocade first announced integration of its Network Advisor SAN management software with the EMC ViPR platform in October last year. At the time, the company said it would continue to work towards making fiber channel an integral storage type in the software-defined data center in the Middle East. Brocade has followed up on this commitment by further extending integration of its storage area networking (SAN) management technology into the EMC ViPR Software-Defined Storage Platform. The integration will cut the cost of storage management for data center managers, simplify current and future application deployments, protect investments that 50,000 joint customers of EMC and Brocade have made in their storage infrastructures and result in support for larger SANs within highly virtualized cloud environments. It is no surprise that EMC and Brocade with their market leading technologies have decided to collaborate in a move to consolidate their joint customer bases as software-defined storage gains increasing interest.
EMC’s software-defined storage system, ViPR, will now be able to use fiber channel routing and logical SAN (LSAN) zoning with Brocade Network Advisor SAN management software making policy-based automation possible, so that any storage infrastructure – within medium to large enterprise SANs – can be managed via the storage management initiative (SMI) standard interface. This will cut data center management costs by simplifying application deployments.
Yarob Sakhnini, regional director MEMA at Brocade said, “This latest announcement of our collaboration with EMC will go a long way in making Fibre Channel an integral element of the software-defined data centre and yet again proves the fact that the protocol is evolving with the data center to support new requirements for application availability, performance, and operational simplicity.”
