Brocade Unveils Advanced SAN Mgmt Solution

Brocade, the fabric-based datacentre networking solutions, has announced the availability of new Brocade Fabric Vision technology capabilities, delivering an advanced storage area network (SAN) management solution. The new features, Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) and Flow Vision, provide breakthrough capabilities that dramatically simplify SAN administration and reduce operational costs, while further improving the availability and performance of Brocade Fibre Channel SANs.

Unique to the Brocade Fibre Channel SAN family, Fabric Vision technology is a hardware and software solution that helps IT organisations accelerate new SAN deployments, optimise resources and dramatically reduce operational costs. With Fabric Vision technology, administrators have new tools and automation that simplify day-to-day SAN management tasks, increase productivity and enable proactive management of SAN infrastructures to help ensure the highest levels of availability and performance.

“Fibre Channel continues to be the datacentre technology of choice to support the growing demands of highly virtualised environments, cloud architectures and new flash-based storage because it delivers the highest levels of reliability, scalability and network performance,” said Jack Rondoni, vice president, Data Center Storage and Solutions, at Brocade. “The innovative Fabric Vision technology capabilities that are available today continue to advance the core values of Fibre Channel, and are a strong proof point of Brocade’s continued leadership in datacentre SANs.”