Brocade Storage Fabrics Purpose-Built for New EMC XtremIO 4.0

Brocade has announced its Fibre Channel and IP-based storage networking technologies will be deployed by EMC as a key component for customer solutions based on the new EMC XtremIO 4.0 all-flash storage arrays that were announced at EMC World.

Brocade storage network switches, along with related storage management software, are branded and sold by EMC as part of the EMC Connectrix family.

Deployment of all-flash arrays has experienced exponential growth, as enterprises move to managing both mission-critical and business-critical applications in consolidated, highly virtualized environments. According to Gartner, “By 2019, 50 per cent of traditional general-purpose storage arrays used for low-latency, high-performance workloads will be replaced by SSAs [solid-state arrays].”

XtremIO 4.0 is a non-disruptive free software upgrade for XtremIO v3.X arrays, which have become the industry’s top-selling all-flash storage, according to IDC. The software upgrade will enable petabyte-scale configurations, on-demand non-disruptive cluster expansion, native replication, and up to 33 per cent more performance to help enterprises deliver better support for hybrid-cloud and private-cloud storage services, with scale-out storage consolidation across all workloads... See more