Designed to deliver intelligence in SANs, the Brocade Application Platform provides a high-speed, highly reliable device for performing fabric-based services throughout heterogeneous data center environments. Available in the standalone Brocade 7600 Switch or the Brocade FA4-18 blade (for use in the Brocade 48000 Director), this platform is tightly integrated with a wide range of enterprise storage applications that leverage Brocade Storage Application Services (SAS) to achieve wire-speed data movement and offload server resources.

These applications include:

• Brocade Data Migration Manager
• EMC RecoverPoint on Brocade
• EMC Invista on Brocade
• Fujitsu ETERNUS VS900

Brocade DMM provides an ultra-fast, non-disruptive, and easy-to-manage solution for migrating data in heterogeneous server and storage environments. It reduces overhead while helping to accelerate data center relocation or consolidation, array replacements, and ILM activities.

EMC RecoverPoint on Brocade is designed to provide continuous remote replication and continuous data protection across heterogeneous IT environments, enabling organizations to protect critical applications from data loss and improve business continuity. (EMC sells the Brocade 7600 for RecoverPoint under the EMC Connectrix Application Platform brand.)

EMC Invista on Brocade virtualizes heterogeneous storage in networked storage environments, enabling enterprise data centers to simplify and expand storage provisioning, and move data seamlessly between storage arrays without costly downtime. (EMC sells the Brocade 7600 for Invista under the EMC Connectrix Application Platform brand.)

The Fujitsu ETERNUS VS900 virtualizes storage across Fibre Channel networks, enabling organizations to allocate any storage to any application with ease, simplify data movement across storage tiers, and reduce overall storage costs.

The Brocade Application Platform delivers fabric-based services by integrating with storage applications that utilize Brocade Storage Application Services (SAS) and the SAS API. The SAS API is an implementation of the T11 Fabric Application Integration Specification (FAIS) standard for data storage applications that removes a layer of complexity from the application. This approach streamlines application performance in the SAN fabric while reducing development and test cycles for high-performance storage applications.