GEC NEWS WIREBrocade Advances Leadership in Fibre Channel Storage Networks with Industry-First Gen 6 Switch
Brocade launched the BROCADE G620- Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch for storage networking. The new purpose-built and high-density SAN switch delivers performance and scalability designed to support data growth and demanding workloads from mission-critical applications.
Gen 6 is the next generation Fibre Channel technology that will enable organizations to address performance, reliability and scalability requirements for hyper scale virtualization, new data center architectures and next-generation storage technologies.
“Fibre Channel has been an integral part of every wave of storage innovation in the data center. Together with our partner ecosystem, we are now delivering Gen 6 Fibre Channel products that will redefine availability, performance and scalability for enterprise storage.” said Jack Rondoni, Vice President of storage networking at Brocade.
“Performance, availability, and scalability are paramount for flash storage architectures. Fibre Channel has been the network of choice for enterprise deployments due to its low-latency and high-availability characteristics. Gen 6 Fibre Channel extends these benefits for the next wave of storage innovation” said Eric Burgener, Research Director, IDC storage practice.
“Fibre Channel remains a core part of our IT infrastructure because of its performance, reliability, scalability and availability and we expect it to play a vital role in the future of our advanced storage deployments,” said James Howard, principal architect, Rackspace.
