Brocade products are designed to help IT organizations manage their data assets in the most efficient, cost-effective manner. To do so, these products leverage industry-leading technologies that solve the widest range of data management challenges in shared storage environments.
The Brocade family of data center networking solutions includes Storage Area Network (SAN) products such as industry-leading switches, directors, routers, embedded switches for blade servers, and fabric-based applications, as well as management applications and utilities to centralize data management.
Additional data center infrastructure solutions include intelligent File Area Network (FAN) products for flexibly managing file data and storage resources. These solutions are part of an efficient enterprise-wide IT infrastructure.
Together, Brocade FAN and SAN products provide innovative, reliable solutions that simplify IT infrastructure, increase resource utilization, and maximize return on investment.
Brocade SAN Solutions
By deploying a flexible Brocade SAN infrastructure composed of hardware, software, and services, organizations can easily move and share storage resources across the enterprise while simplifying administration. Brocade SAN infrastructures can actually extend the life of technology investments by simplifying the migration from a direct-attached storage environment to a networked storage environment.
This scalable shared storage approach incorporates intelligence directly into the SAN fabric to solve many of today's most pressing IT challenges. As a result, organizations can enjoy a much more manageable storage environment and a lower total cost of ownership.
Brocade offers both Fabric OS (FOS) and M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) platforms that can seamlessly integrate into new or existing SAN environments by using unique interoperability technologies. Direct E_Port connectivity, Fibre Channel routing, and the Brocade Access Gateway for blade server SAN switches provide implementation flexibility and ease of use for connecting Brocade FOS and M-EOS platforms.
Brocade SAN solutions include the following categories:
Brocade FAN Solutions
In today's dynamic business environment, managing data center and branch office IT infrastructures has become increasingly complex, time-consuming, and resource-intensive. Faced with rapid data growth, unchecked server proliferation, and ever-rising storage management costs, IT organizations need strategic, flexible solutions that fit within their existing technology infrastructures and budgets.
To help organizations overcome these growing challenges, Brocade offers innovative FAN solutions. Utilizing breakthrough technologies, Brocade FAN solutions solve some of the most difficult IT issues, including storage and server proliferation, timely data backup and restore, and rising management costs. Moreover, these solutions are specifically designed to maximize the value of data assets by helping organizations:
- Consolidate resources
- Increase control over data assets
- Reduce complexity
- Improve compliance reporting
FAN solutions include the following categories:
Heterogeneous, Multivendor Solutions
As the foundation for some of the world's largest networked storage environments, Brocade products support multivendor, heterogeneous environments - enabling organizations to select the storage and servers that best address their specific requirements. To provide the greatest flexibility, Brocade products are designed to support both current and emerging protocols.
Compliance with open industry standards, such as SMI-S, and thorough interoperability testing help ensure reliable heterogeneous solutions in the widest range of deployment scenarios.
