OpenStack Cloud Management: Brocade VCS Plugin Arrives
May 2, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
OpenStack clouds and network management capabilities are converging. An example: Brocade has released a VCS fabric plugin, providing on-demand fabric provisioning capabilities to OpenStack-based clouds. Launched as a component to OpenStack Grizzly, the plugin was designed to expand on the native attributes of Brocade’s VCS Fabric technology.
According to Brocade, the benefits of VCS on OpenStack are related to its technology’s network automation, efficiency and elasticity combined with the ease of provisioning provided on OpenStack. The goal is enable customers to deploy network capacity and services in cloud-based data centers more quickly than with legacy network architectures and provisioning tools…
"In addition to delivering OpenStack support for Brocade products that accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies and deliver on the promise of The On-Demand Data Center, Brocade is an active contributor to the OpenStack development community, taking an active leadership role in driving innovation in important areas of the framework, such as the addition of fibre channel SAN provisioning into OpenStack," said Jason Nolet, vice president of the Data Center Networking Group at Brocade, in a prepared statement…
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