Rapid changes in hardware, technology, and capacity demands are forcing enterprises to implement ongoing server and storage consolidation and data migration strategies to optimize available storage assets. Consolidating widely distributed or underutilized resource into centrally managed environments, or migrating data, are no longer point-in-time projects for administrators.

Brocade SAN Solutions

Implementing a Fibre Channel SAN can enable organizations to scale storage more effectively, support continuous data availability, and reduce the overall cost of storage management. The 2 and 4 Gbit/sec Brocade family of directors and switches set a new industry standard for ultra-high availability, scalability, and manageability, in the storage environment. The Brocade Multiprotocol Router provides a unique platform that increases SAN connectivity options and improves resource utilization. The Brocade iSCSI Gateway provides low-cost 2-port iSCSI configurations for extending networked storage to a new class of servers, and 2-port Fibre Channel configurations for Fibre Channel SAN or storage connectivity.


Brocade File Services Management

Brocade StorageX assists in migrating from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000/2003, Novell to Windows, Linux to Solaris, or Windows or UNIX file storage to NAS, by allowing administrators to more readily identify migration requirements across platforms.


Brocade StorageX allows administrators to create logical "pools" of storage that align with business operations, and establish policy-based setup and execution of load balancing enabling automatic, unattended storage optimization.