GEC NEWS WIRENew Qualification Program for Solid State Storage System Vendors along with Support for FCIA’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel
Brocade, the global leader in Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) technology, whose customers represent the vast majority of the global installed base of storage networks, has announced an innovative programme that supports solid state storage system vendors who have adopted Fibre Channel as the protocol of choice to optimize application performance in enterprise storage area networking (SAN) environments.
In light of this, Brocade’s announcement of a new ‘Solid State Ready programme’ is of great significance since it provides solid state storage system testing to ensure high performance and seamless interoperability across multiple fabrics, heterogeneous servers and host bus adapters in Brocade fabrics.
“As our customer base increasingly moves to deploy solid state storage in their SAN environments, they are demanding Fibre Channel as a requirement to meet increased application performance levels,” said Jack Rondoni, vice president, Data Center Storage and Solutions, at Brocade. “Because of this trend, our goal is to encourage solid state storage system vendors to complete qualification of their products in the Brocade Solid State Ready program so that our customers, which represent the vast majority of the global installed base of storage networks, can enjoy optimum performance and seamless deployment into their existing SAN fabrics.”
In January of this year, QLogic, the industry leader in Fibre Channel adapters and Brocade announced a broad technology alliance agreement that will enhance end-to-end storage connectivity for end users, accelerate innovation and adoption of Storage Area Networks .
“Brocade dominates the Storage Area Networking market in the Middle East and these latest innovations from our company will no doubt drive the future of Fibre Channel and lead to greater regional adoption,” concludes Yarob Sakhnini, regional director MEMA at Brocade.
