GEC NEWS WIREAnnounces the industry’s first purpose-built storage connectivity portfolio based on Brocade fabric technologies for both data center and disaster recovery applications
Brocade has unveiled the industry’s first and broadest portfolio of purpose-built storage connectivity solutions for data center and disaster recovery workloads.
With a portfolio that includes two fabric-based switches Brocade Fabric Vision and Brocade Network Advisor, Brocade is redefining network connectivity for IP storage and helping enterprise IT managers improve service-level guarantees, containing failure domains, and reducing security risks.
“Brocade VCS fabric technology and the Brocade VDX portfolio of switches were designed to address these critical factors. The result is the industry’s first purpose-built portfolio of IP storage connectivity solutions that will enable our customers to build resilient, high performance networks that are imperative to supporting business critical applications and disaster recovery plans.” said Mr. Yarob Sakhnini, Regional Director, MENA at Brocade.
“EMC customers are now deploying the Connectrix VDX-6740B for a broad array of our high-end and mid-range NAS and iSCSI storage platforms. They are being installed for dedicated networks and disaster recovery to realize the same performance, reliability, and operational simplicity as for our Fibre Channel offerings,” said Jonathan Siegal, Vice President, Marketing, Core Technologies Division, EMC Corporation.
The Brocade IP storage portfolio will be available in Calendar Q2 from Brocade OEM and channel partners.
