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Brocade adds feather to IP storage portfolio

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BANGALORE: Networking solutions provider Brocade has announced the industry's first purpose-built storage connectivity portfolio for both data center and disaster recovery applications, helping IT teams manage growth, mitigate risk, and reduce costs.

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The company is redefining networking for IP storage systems with this new solutions. It has also introduced Fabric Vision technology for the Brocade VDX 6740 switch to simplify network management, monitoring, and alerting.

Its portfolio also includes advanced IP storage extension for the Brocade 7840 extension switch that delivers local replication performance over long distance with strong encryption, a statement said.

The unified storage management for Brocade Fabric Vision provides unprecedented visibility and insight for IP and Fibre Channel storage networks.

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EMC will continue to work to integrate new IP storage technology features to the EMC Connectrix family of network switches and management software, a statement said.

"Traditional Ethernet networks were never designed to address the needs of IP storage," said Ashish Nadkarni, Research Director, Storage, at IDC. "The growth of IP storage and the business-critical nature of workloads require a new approach to storage architectures. Dedicated storage networks, both inside and between data centers, are essential to maintaining predictable and reliable application performance."

"In delivering the industry's first complete portfolio purpose-built and optimized for IP storage, Brocade is helping to ensure that our mutual customers can easily deploy, operate, and scale out high-performance fabrics that deliver the predictable performance and unmatched resiliency required for business-critical applications and disaster recovery initiatives," said Jack Rondoni, Vice President, Storage Networking, at Brocade.

The Brocade VDX 6740 switch, which was added to the EMC Connectrix family in February, redefines network visibility and agility with superior automation and simplicity.

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