PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN

(pressebox) München, 07.04.2009, Brocade stellt die industrieweit ersten End-to-End-Lösungen für Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) vor, die den Fibre Channel (FC)-Standard und das Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) verbinden. Die neuen Produkte sind der Brocade 8000 Switch und die Converged Netzwerkadapter CNA1010/1020.

Der Brocade 8000 Switch ist ein multiprotokollfähiger, Layer 2, Top-of-the-Rack FCoE Switch mit 24 mal 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) CEE Ports sowie acht FC Ports mit 8 Gbit/s. Der Brocade 8000 Switch ermöglicht den konsolidierten Input/Output (I/O) von Speicher- und Netzwerk-Ports auf Server-Seite. Die neuen Converged Netzwerkadapter (CNAs) bieten eine Leistung von bis zu 500.000 IOs pro Sekunde (IOPS) und stehen in zwei Varianten zur Verfügung: den Single Port Brocade CNA 1010 und den Dual Port Brocade CNA 1020. Die neuen Brocade Adapter gehören zu den weltweit ersten CNAs mit Single-ASIC, die klassisches Ethernet auf Basis des TCP/IP Protokolls, Converged Ethernet sowie Speichernetzwerk-Funktionalität über einen einzigen 10 Gb/s FCoE Link von den Servern über das SAN bis hin zum LAN bieten.

In Kombination ermöglichen der Brocade 8000 Switch und die 1010/1020 CNAs eine durchgängige FCoE-Konnektivität vom Server bis hin zum Speicher. Die Lösungen können nahtlos in existierende FC-Umgebungen integriert werden und lassen sich mit der übergreifenden Management-plattform Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) administrieren. Im Vergleich zu Switches von anderen Anbietern benötigt der Brocade 8000 Switch trotz der doppelten FC-Bandbreite nur die Hälfte der Energie und ist auch nur halb so groß. Darüber hinaus bietet er im Vergleich eine rund vier mal bessere CEE-to-FC Subscription-Rate.

Weitere Informationen über die Brocade FCoE Produkte unter: www.brocade.com/fc-investment.

Zitate:

EMC: "FCoE and CEE will play a key role in virtual data center environments," said Barbara Robidoux, EMC vice president, Storage Product Marketing. "EMC and Brocade are continuing their long-standing partnership to address customer’s next generation data center requirements. Network convergence with FCoE and CEE is a major component of these new data center architectures. Together these technologies provide the networking performance and flexibility that a virtual data center requires. They also help customers address some of their major data center challenges including maximizing utilization, reducing operating costs, and lowering capital expenditures, all while providing investment protection for existing Fibre Channel investments."

HDS: "FCoE integrates seamlessly with existing Fibre Channel environments and utilizes the familiar set of storage-aware Fibre Channel fabric services, management applications, and utilities in the data center that our customers have enjoyed for years. Through our partnership with Brocade, we are committed to protecting our customers’ existing Fibre Channel investments while allowing them to leverage emerging technologies such as FCoE and CEE." Asim Zaheer, vice president of product and competitive marketing, Hitachi Data Systems.

HP: "Customers are looking to lower costs by simplifying management, improving energy efficiency and reducing power consumption within their technology infrastructures," said Bob Wilson, vice president of Storage Platforms, StorageWorks Division, HP. "Customers interested in deploying FCoE will be able to consolidate SAN and LAN server traffic while reducing cable requirements and simplifying management through HP’s broad storage portfolio and Brocade’s 8000 switch."

IBM: "Convergence of Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabrics into a common fabric is an important goal of IBM’s dynamic infrastructure initiatives," said Jim Comfort, IBM Vice President of Enterprise Initiatives. "IBM has a long history of working with Brocade. We have been an active participant in development of industry standards for FCoE/CEE in partnership with Brocade and many other companies in the IT industry. We anticipate that customers will be anxious to achieve the environmental and operational efficiencies that can result from deployment of converged fabrics."

Microsoft: "As our customers look to create a more dynamic data center with Microsoft virtualization and management software, technologies such as FCoE will serve as a foundation in the future to achieve that and reduce operating costs," said Dai Vu, director, virtualization solutions marketing at Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft has announced plans to support FCoE with an upcoming logo program and we look forward to Brocade’s participation to qualify their FCoE adapters for use by our mutual customers."

NetApp: "With the industry’s first native FCoE storage system, NetApp fully supports Brocade’s new line of FCoE switches and CNAs to provide customers with added flexibility, efficiency, and performance in the data center," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing for NetApp. "With a strong relationship that dates back to 2001, Brocade and NetApp are committed to working together to help promote and advance FCoE technology, enabling customers to consolidate and streamline their data centers."

Sun: "Sun has a long history of working with Brocade to deliver better value to customers. Transporting storage and networking data over Converged Enhanced Ethernet allows our customers to reduce the number of server adapters, cables, and switch ports – reducing overall system power consumption and cooling costs," said Gautam Chanda, Group Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

VMware: "As our customers move toward cloud computing, they are increasingly interested in aggregating their IT resources, including server, storage and network assets, to work as an efficient, unified utility," said Shekar Ayyar, vice president of infrastructure alliances at VMware. "The VMware platform is on the leading edge of this trend, giving our customers the foundation for cloud computing. We are pleased to work with Brocade, whose new switches and network adapters aim to provide flexible, converged solutions that can help our customers improve the reliability and manageability of cloud-based IT services."Über Brocade Communications GmbH

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) entwickelt hochleistungsfähige, kosteneffiziente und hochverfügbare Netzwerklösungen, welche für die komplexen und datenintensiven Umgebungen von heute die Konnektivität optimieren, so dass der unternehmerische Nutzen der Daten erhöht werden kann. Weitere Informationen stehen unter: www.brocade.com

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