Rackspace Taps Brocade for Leaner, Greener Cloud SANs
March 4, 2014
Grazed from InfoStor. Author: Pedro Hernandez.
Cloud computing’s runaway popularity is leaving providers in a bind. While it’s generally a good problem to have, accelerating growth — 200,000-plus customers and counting in Rackspace’s case — can lead to complexity in the data center, not to mention outsized power bills. Rackspace, the San Antonio, Texas-based provider of cloud computing services, turned to Brocade and its Gen 5 Fibre Channel SAN interconnection platform to help implement an upgrade storage architecture that can grow with the company while promoting energy efficiency.
Brocade’s tech is also helping the company squeeze a little more precious rack space out of its data centers. Sean Wedige, CTO of Rackspace Enterprise Solutions at Rackspace, said in a statement that his company worked with Brocade and EMC to "to design a SAN fabric that was easy to grow and manage, while providing the flexibility to allow our data center technicians to connect any device to any switch in the fabric."…
The end result not only helped boost data storage reliability and availability, it also helped cut energy costs. The SAN fabric upgrade, reported Wedige, "has allowed us to use less space and power, supporting our green initiatives, while allowing us better utilization of our physical facilities."…
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