New Brocade Offerings Target Cloud Migrations

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: John Rath.

Brocade  has rolled out new features for its VCS fabric and VDX switch portfolio, seeking to offer an end-to-end multitenancy blueprint for migration to the cloud. New wrinkles include new VCS fabric features that provide native multitenancy, storage-aware networking and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance. Last May the company rolled out its software-defined networking strategy, with software innovations coming from its acquisition of Vyatta.

“As cloud computing matures and is increasingly adopted in production environments, new requirements are emerging and deficiencies in legacy architectures are becoming more pronounced,” said Jason Nolet, vice president data center swtiching and routing at Brocade. “Our continued innovation in Brocade VCS Fabric technology addresses the most challenging data center requirements, including network multitenancy, network intelligence for exploding storage growth and the emerging adoption of 100 GbE for ever-increasing bandwidth consumption.”…

The VCS Virtual Fabric now automatically recognizes and prioritizes storage traffic. A new VDX 6740 family of 10/40 GbE switches with VCS Virtual Fabric support offer 40GbE to 160 GbE trunks, with 32 Flex Ports (Fibre Channel/Ethernet/FCoE), providing flexibility and investment protection. The switches also have ASIC support for OpenFlow 1.3. Brocade also announced a new 100 GbE line card for the VDX 8770 modular chassis…

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