Brocade Unveils 'On-Demand Data Center' Strategy

Brocade, a datacentre networking and fabric solutions, has unveiled a comprehensive strategy that combines the best aspects of physical and virtual networking to increase business agility, reduce complexity and scale virtualisation to new levels within and across datacentres.

The “On-Demand Data Center” strategy from Brocade represents another major evolution in networking toward a highly virtualised, open and flexible network infrastructure. With an infrastructure that combines physical and virtual networking elements, customers can provision the capacity – compute, network, storage and services – required to deliver high-value applications faster and easier compared to legacy datacentre networks. With Brocade VCS Fabric technology serving as the foundation, The On-Demand Data Center strategy enables customers to simplify and automate their networks, as well as dramatically improve network efficiency, utilisation and performance. This strategy also represents another logical step on the path toward mass customer adoption of Software-Defined Networking (SDN).

Brocade is supporting this strategy by delivering new hardware and software advancements across its entire datacentre networking portfolio. Furthermore, Brocade has reinforced its commitment for software, open management, orchestration and SDN controller initiatives by delivering new technologies in support of the OpenDaylight Project and OpenStack, strategic open-source software projects for building private, public and hybrid clouds. Specifically, Brocade is announcing:

• Virtual networking solutions: Brocade Vyatta vRouter and Brocade Virtual ADX Application Delivery Switch

• Physical networking solutions: Brocade MLXe 4×40 GbE Core Router module, Brocade NetIron CES/CER Carrier Ethernet Switch/Router modules and Brocade NetIron OS update

• Orchestration and management solutions: Brocade OpenStack solution, founding board member of the OpenDaylight open source SDN project and Brocade Application Resource Broker

“Strengthening the Brocade software networking portfolio, the Brocade Virtual ADX combined with the Brocade Vyatta vRouter and Brocade Application Resource Broker delivers an end-to-end software networking solution that increases datacentre agility and reduces network complexity,” said Ken Cheng, Vice President of the Routing, Application Delivery and Software Networking Group at Brocade. “Brocade’s ability to unite the physical and virtual networking elements provides our customers with heightened agility not only in their deployment options, but also when it comes to implementing emerging technologies that simplify business processes.”