New Brocade Capabilities Improve Performance, Security, and Data Management
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brocade(R) (Nasdaq:
BRCD), the leader in networked storage solutions that help enterprises
connect and manage their information, today announced a wide range of new
product and service enhancements that enable greater efficiencies in
enterprise data centers and branch offices. The new capabilities address
customer challenges in the areas of performance, data protection, and
virtualization, and span the company's Storage Area Network (SAN), File
Area Network (FAN), and Professional Services offerings.
"Brocade continues to demonstrate its dedication to rapid innovation
and to delivering technologies and solutions that offer new levels of
efficiencies for data management," said Brad O'Neill, Senior Analyst with
Taneja Group. "As the next-generation data center evolves, Brocade is
addressing the needs for scalable and high-performance connectivity, simple
yet comprehensive management, and absolute investment protection. The
company continues to prove that it understands the customer and that it is
on the right track to deliver the right solutions for its customer base."
"Today's announcements represent another step forward and proof point
that Brocade is executing on its product roadmap and next-generation data
center fabric strategy," said Tom Buiocchi, Brocade Vice President of
Worldwide Marketing. "As enterprise data continues to grow, customers are
asking for innovations to drive higher efficiencies, and our announcements
today all contribute to that goal."
NEW BROCADE SAN SOLUTIONS FOR THE DATA CENTER
The newest Brocade SAN offerings enhance data center management,
security, scalability, distance connectivity, virtualization, and
interoperability. Specifically, the announcements today include:
-- The addition of 10 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel connectivity to the Brocade
48000 Director. The new Brocade FC10-6 director blade provides the
capability to interconnect systems between remote sites for high-
performance business continuity and disaster recovery applications.
-- A number of enhancements to Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity
Manager (EFCM) and Brocade Fabric Manager, two enterprise-class
software applications that help customers increase efficiency in
managing and securing their SAN infrastructure. Key enhancements
include Advanced Call Home for Brocade EFCM and performance monitoring
functionality for Brocade Fabric Manager.
-- Fast Write acceleration capabilities available on both the Brocade
48000 router blade (the Brocade FR4-18i) and the Brocade 7500 routing
platform. Fast Write boosts enterprise data protection by improving
performance for many remote disaster recovery applications, such as
disk mirroring, by up to 200 percent.
-- Brocade Access Gateway, a virtualization technology that enables
interoperability between classic Brocade switches and legacy McDATA
switches, will now be available on the entry-level Brocade 200E
Switch. Brocade Access Gateway reduces the number of devices to manage
in the SAN, enabling customers to scale their SAN with servers or
storage devices without adding management complexity.
-- The next-generation Brocade application platforms, the Brocade FA4-18
application blade for the Brocade 48000 and the Brocade 7600
Application Platform, to provide industry-leading performance and
enterprise-class scalability to storage virtualization and data
protection applications.
"EMC is pleased to continue delivering support of our information
infrastructure solutions with Brocade's new fabric-based SAN solutions. The
combined solutions provide customers with the needed platform to greatly
improve storage flexibility around non-disruptive data mobility, data
protection and recovery for their resource-intensive data centers," said
Barbara Robidoux, Vice President, Storage Platforms Product Marketing, EMC.
NEW AND ENHANCED FAN SOLUTIONS FOR THE ENTERPRISE
Along with enhancements to its SAN portfolio, Brocade has improved the
ability for customers to efficiently manage their unstructured (file-based)
data throughout the enterprise. The new capabilities for Brocade FAN
solutions include:
-- Enhanced branch office solutions for file consolidation and data
protection, which give customers flexible options for best addressing
their branch office file data management challenges in order to
improve data protection, efficiency, and resiliency. (See separate
press released also announced today
http://www.brocade.com/news/2007/5_29_BranchOffice.jsp.)
-- A new release of Brocade StorageX(R) (Version 6.0) that provides
additional capabilities for seamless migration of files in both CIFS
(Windows) and NFS (UNIX) environments throughout the enterprise. The
new release provides tighter integration with Windows Server 2003 R2,
broadens UNIX platform support, and allows organizations to have more
control over data movement during migration and storage load balancing
procedures-thereby reducing administrative costs.
-- A new release of Brocade File Lifecycle Manager (FLM). Brocade FLM
Version 4.0 now helps ensure that users have continuous access to data
by enabling administrators to more easily automate file migration and
restoration without system downtime. Brocade FLM provides a powerful
way to lower overall storage costs by easily creating tiers of storage
in NetApp NAS environments, and also helps organizations to better
meet their corporate data compliance requirements.
All of the new Brocade SAN and FAN products and solutions announced
today have been integrated into the rapidly growing Brocade Services
portfolio. Through its worldwide services organization, Brocade can
immediately provide consultation, design, and implementation services for
these and all other Brocade solutions.
About Brocade
Brocade is the leading provider of networked storage solutions that
help organizations connect, share, and manage their information.
Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to
optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management. For
more information, visit the Brocade Web site at http://www.brocade.com or
contact the company at info@brocade.com.
Brocade, the Brocade B-wing logo, Fabric OS, File Lifecycle Manager,
MyView, Secure Fabric OS, SilkWorm, and StorageX are registered trademarks
and the Brocade B-weave symbol and Tapestry are trademarks of Brocade
Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other
countries. FICON is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation in the U.S.
and other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or
may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products
or services of their respective owners.
SOURCE Brocade
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Related links:
http://www.brocade.com
http://www.brocade.com/news/2007/5_29_BranchOffice.jsp
CONTACT:
Media, Michelle Leach, +1-408-333-5319,
mleach@brocade.com, or Investors, Shirley Stacy, +1-408-333-5752,
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+1-415-677-2714, ian.yellin@ogilvypr.com, for Brocade
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