Friday, 26 October 2007

Brocade Unveils New Data Center Networking Architecture

Brocade has unveiled the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture, which it claims can responds to the needs of businesses to make their data centers more efficient, reliable, and adaptable. According …

Brocade has unveiled the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture, which it claims can responds to the needs of businesses to make their data centers more efficient, reliable, and adaptable. According to the comapny, this announcement marks an important step in Brocade’s drive to address customer needs in the evolving data center.

“CIOs and data center managers face the imperative to ‘do more with less’. The Brocade DCF is designed to address this challenge,” said Michael Klayko, Brocade Chief Executive Officer. “Customers have told us they need to cut costs and increase speed and flexibility, while also managing growing volumes of data. With Brocade DCF we are providing them with a framework to achieve these goals, while also leveraging their existing IT and operational resources and minimizing disruption.”

Brocade claims that the new DCF architecture can simplify data center connectivity and reduce costs by combining storage networking and server-to-server clustering into a single, converged data center infrastructure. In addition, the new architecture can adapt to the dynamics of virtualized servers and storage, while accommodating expanding application workloads and the relentless growth of corporate data, said a company spokesperson.

At its annual end-user conference beginning in Las Vegas yesterday, Brocade also previewed a roadmap of new products and technologies that will help to deliver the benefits of this new architecture strategy. Over the next six months, Brocade plans to broaden its innovation and leadership by delivering a wide range of new solutions, technologies, and partnerships that support the Brocade DCF.