Brocade storage fabrics deployed in EMC XtremIO 4.0

BANGALORE: Networking solutions provider Brocade’s fibre channel and IP-based storage networking technologies will be deployed by EMC as a key component for customer solutions based on the new EMC XtremIO 4.0 all-flash storage arrays.

Brocade Storage Fabrics are built for new EMC XtremIO 4.0 all-flash arrays. Its storage network switches, along with related storage management software, are branded and sold by EMC as part of the EMC Connectrix family.

“Deployment of all-flash arrays has experienced exponential growth, as enterprises move to managing both mission-critical and business-critical applications in consolidated, highly virtualized environments,” a statement said.

XtremIO 4.0 is a non-disruptive free software upgrade for XtremIO v3.X arrays, which have become the industry’s top-selling all-flash storage, according to IDC 2.

The software upgrade will enable petabyte-scale configurations, on-demand non-disruptive cluster expansion, native replication, and up to 33 percent more performance to help enterprises deliver better support for hybrid-cloud and private-cloud storage services, with scale-out storage consolidation across all workloads.