{"id":10303,"date":"2016-07-25T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2016-07-25T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:33:44","slug":"brocade-delivers-gen-6-fibre-channel-directors-for-all-flash-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/07\/25\/brocade-delivers-gen-6-fibre-channel-directors-for-all-flash-data-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Brocade delivers Gen 6 Fibre Channel Directors for data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brocade has\u00a0announced the delivery of its\u00a0Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors<\/a> for mission-critical storage connectivity and business resiliency solutions designed for the all-flash data centre. \u00a0This extends the company\u2019s leadership in offering the industry\u2019s most innovative and widely deployed Fibre Channel storage network solutions<\/a>, building on the first Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch that Brocade delivered in March 2016<\/a>.\u00a0 The new Brocade\u00a0X6 director family and the Brocade SX6 extension blade<\/a> for Fibre Channel, Fibre Connection (FICON) and IP storage replication, combined with Brocade Fabric Vision\u2122 technology, enables customers to drive always-on business operations, eliminate performance bottlenecks and adapt to the requirements of digital organisations.<\/p>\n

As organisations continue to digitise and adapt to new workloads, they need a modern storage network that supports business agility. \u00a0Fibre Channel fabrics are the common thread that connects organisations to their most critical applications and data.\u00a0 Ninety-six percent of banks, insurance companies and retailers rely on Fibre Channel as the most trusted network infrastructure for storage.\u00a0 Gen 6 Fibre Channel provides the digital enterprise with non-stop availability and incredible performance required for tomorrow\u2019s hyper-scale data centres.<\/p>\n

\u201cLegacy networks will bottleneck flash storage minimising the performance and economic benefits of this game-changing technology,\u201d said Jack Rondoni, Vice President of Storage Networking at Brocade. \u201cBrocade\u2019s Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions unleash the full value of today\u2019s flash technology and enable tomorrow\u2019s next-generation flash storage based on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe). \u00a0NVMe will be the next disruptive storage technology in the data centre and customers will be able to seamlessly integrate NVMe over fabrics with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Network automation is key to modernising data centres. \u00a0According to a global CIO survey<\/a>[1]<\/a>, 75 percent of respondents stated that the network is impacting their organisations’ ability to achieve business goals. The lack of network automation and integration of the network with other IT operations is the single biggest inhibitor to capitalising on digitisation.<\/p>\n

This complete network-lifecycle solution brings an organisation\u2019s information together into one simple, easy-to-use command-and-control application. \u00a0It provides a programmable web-based interface through standard REST APIs to automate operational tasks such as zoning, scripting and reporting. \u00a0In addition, standard REST APIs enable customers to use Brocade Fabric Vision technology to easily analyse fabric-wide health and performance. \u00a0Brocade is also a key supporter of the OpenStack storage community, contributing Fibre Channel zone management to the OpenStack Cinder project.<\/p>\n

The Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio combines innovative hardware, Brocade Fabric Vision technology and ground-breaking integrated monitoring for storage IO and virtual machine (VM) performance.\u00a0 This delivers the industry\u2019s highest level of operational stability while redefining application performance for hyperscale, mission-critical storage.\u00a0 New innovations in Brocade\u2019s Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio include:<\/p>\n