Brocade to host Technology Day Summit
Brocade will play host this week to customers and press as well as financial and industry analysts at the 10th annual Brocade Technology Day Summit. The event will be held at the new Brocade San Jose-based campus and data centre, which was recently awarded by Uptime Institute 2011 Green Enterprise IT for data centre design, consolidation and energy efficiency.
"We are providing more proof points for our Brocade One strategy, which helps our customers reduce network complexity and support new and distributed applications. Technology Day allows us to demonstrate how our innovations provide new levels of uptime through an open, multivendor architecture that protects existing and new IT investments," said John McHugh, Chief Marketing Officer, Brocade. "Our solutions available today support the IT transformation required to embrace any and all cloud architectures."
Fibre Channel continues to be the predominant information storage architecture for virtualized data centers and the growth of information storage has been unparalleled over the past ten years. Brocade today announced it is first to market with a comprehensive family of 16 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel offerings that set new standards for performance, scalability and data centre efficiency. These offerings include the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone, the Brocade 6510 Switch, the Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter and the Brocade Fabric OS 7.0 operating system. Also included are new administrative and scalability enhancements to Brocade Network Advisor, which unifies storage, data and wireless network management in a single platform.
Brocade also announced the next evolution in public cloud infrastructures that will allow service providers to leverage transformative Internet technologies and data centre networks to deliver a broad set of new revenue-generating cloud services such as Software-, Infrastructure- and Platform-as-a-Service. Specific announcements include significant software advancements to the entire family of Brocade "IPv6-ready" Internet core, metro and edge routers; new carrier-grade 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 100 GbE modules designed to deliver massive scalability for public cloud networks; and the new Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch, which delivers advanced Ethernet services closer to customer premises.
Brocade Technology Day will also feature an elite series of customer speakers, including Brocade VDX 6720 Switch customers de Persgroep and Phoenix NAP; Brocade MLXe Core Router customer FleetCor; and Brocade DCX Backbone customers AOL and University of Alabama at Birmingham. These customers will share their best practices and detail how Brocade and its partners have helped create the ideal foundation for highly virtualized data centres and cloud-optimized networks.
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