Integrated Fabric Management

As IT organizations consolidate, evolve, and operate more as service providers to their customers, they must deploy Service-Oriented Infrastructures (SOI) and management processes. Combined with the expansion of data center virtualization, this trend has increased pressure to provide greater levels of service while reducing costs. Meeting this challenge in complex, growing environments requires a management solution that is easy to use and helps automate management operations.

Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) is a comprehensive network management solution that unifies management of data center environments. Managing data and securing the flow of data across multiple fabrics empowers organizations to achieve their goals related to Service Level Agreements (SLAs), security, and compliance while containing or even reducing their operating expenses. To account for the enormous growth in data moving within and across data centers, management solutions must provide unprecedented scalability and performance to make data available to users immediately and all the time. Administration tools that streamline or automate repetitive tasks must also be intuitive and easy-to-use.

Brocade DCFM integrates with leading third-party data center automation solutions through frameworks such as the Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S). DCFM provides the following key capabilities:

• Superior scalability and performance
• Unified data center fabric management to extend the scope of management from individual switches and directors to pools of physical and virtualized servers and storage
• Simplified management of physical and virtual data center infrastructure, to expose policy-based advanced fabric services
• Open standards interfaces to simplify integration with Brocade server, storage, and infrastructure management partner frameworks
• Unified management for both Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) and Brocade M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS)

File Management

Files are the core of today's digital business, and they are essential for productivity, timely communication, and collaboration throughout the enterprise and beyond. Any disruptions to file access can stop a business in its tracks. Today, more files are being created, copied, and stored than ever before—with more users demanding continuous access to those files. In addition, files are growing in size as users incorporate image, video, and audio content. As a result, most IT organizations will likely see their file data double within two years.

With such widespread growth, file migration and consolidation is no longer an ad hoc project for storage administrators. As the amount of file data grows, IT organizations will face the tradeoff of more downtime and longer disruptions as they manage files to add capacity, improve performance, or optimize resources on an ongoing basis. Because extended outages pose risks to operations during the week, however, many organizations are left with only 52 weekends a year to manage their files and file infrastructure. Faced with the sheer number of files and the corresponding costs and complexity challenges, IT organizations need a file management infrastructure that facilitates growth and adapts easily to changing business requirements.

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Cable Management

As the industry's leading data center networking solutions provider, Brocade offers standards-based, structured Brocade Cable Management solutions--enabling data center fabrics to scale up to tens of thousands of ports. Optimized for Brocade 8 Gbps backbone, director, and switch products, Brocade Cable Management solutions help IT organizations implement their next-generation data centers.

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• Data Sheets

  • Data Center Fabric Services (649 KB)

  • File Data Infrastructure Management Services (162.7 KB)

• Success Stories

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• Technical Briefs

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