Brocade Introduces Fabric-Based Networking Solutions

Brocade, the fabric-based datacentre architectures company, has announced solutions that will help enterprise customers migrate smoothly to private cloud architectures. The company has introduced the world’s first fabric-based, end-to-end networking solutions based on 16 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel technologies.

In addition to performance increases enabled by the migration to the 16 Gbps standard, Brocade is delivering other advancements such as in-flight data compression for improved bandwidth utilisation, in-flight high-speed encryption for enhanced security and enhanced diagnostics for improved network visibility and management. For investment protection, the new portfolio integrates with the estimated 30 million Fibre Channel SAN ports that have already been deployed globally.

Brocade has also developed Ethernet fabrics, a new category of networking technology that is purpose-built for virtualisation and cloud-optimised datacentres. The Brocade Ethernet fabric solution is powered by Brocade VCS technology and available through the Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switch.
Brocade has announced strong customer adoption for its Ethernet fabric solutions, which are helping customers to simplify their datacentre network architectures and improve business agility by enabling greater resource mobility and increased resiliency throughout the fabric.

“As a leader in fabric-based datacentre architectures with more than 15 years of experience in building mission-critical networks for many of the world’s most demanding IT environments, Brocade is helping customers move to highly virtualised and cloud models,” said Jason Nolet, Vice President, Data Center and Enterprise Networking, Brocade. “Fibre Channel fabric technology continues to be the top customer choice for creating the most reliable and high-performance virtualised server and storage environments. In addition, Ethernet fabrics have the potential to define datacentre network architectures for the next decade. Both technologies demonstrate the highly integral and strategic nature that networks play in support of virtualisation and the migration to the private cloud.”