RealWire
2012-09-13
Powerful New Modular Switch Delivers Unmatched Scale, Performance and Automation for Private and Public Cloud Networks
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), a attention personality in fabric networking, currently announced a insubordinate switching platform, a Brocade® VDX® 8770 Switch, along with VCS® Fabric technology enhancements that take data centre network simplicity, potency and resiliency to a new scale. The Brocade VDX 8770 is designed for enterprises and use providers essay to both facilitate and scale-out their information centre infrastructure in sequence to accelerate new use introduction and expostulate innovation, while also obscure costs.
With some-more than 700 business who have already commissioned Brocade VDX switches, Brocade is building on a success of a VCS fabric-enabled switch portfolio with a serve of a modular Brocade VDX 8770 Switch. The newest family member is built to support a largest information centres, delivering rare morality and automation along with vast scalability and performance—all while charity aloft investment protection.
Simplicity and Automation
The Brocade VDX 8770 and VCS Fabric record broach a radically simplified information centre network. Designed privately for rarely virtualised environments, Ethernet fabrics built on VCS Fabric record accelerate focus deployment and capacitate faster practical appurtenance (VM) migrations by 0 -touch VM discovery, VM mobility and VM pier pattern migration. Using VCS fabrics, business can conduct dozens of switches as a singular judicious device, dramatically shortening operational costs. They can also save designation time as new switches self-provision when they are connected to a fabric.
Scale and Performance
With today’s virtualised and cloud-centric information centre architectures, focus opening is rarely contingent on a potency and utilization of a network infrastructure. VM firmness per server is also fast augmenting as business find to maximize server utilisation. To support these requirements, they need a high-performance network that can scale out on approach to residence evident business needs.
The Brocade VDX 8770 provides rare fabric scalability for a world’s largest information core environments, enabling business to enhance a singular VCS fabric adult to 8000 switch ports with adult to 384,000 VMs trustworthy to a fabric—20 times a scalability of a heading competitor. Designed for today’s real-time applications, a Brocade VDX 8770 also delivers a industry’s lowest port-to-port latency during 3.5 microseconds opposite all 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE and 40 GbE ports—half a latency of a nearest competitor.
Moreover, a Brocade VDX 8770 sets a new customary for network potency and fault-tolerance with softened scalability and bucket balancing of Layer 3 gateways in a fabric. Combining this Layer 3 creation with VCS fabric trunking and TRILL-based Layer 2 ECMP, business can realize significantly softened network resiliency and aloft focus opening by maximising accessible network bandwidth.
State-of-the-Art Design for a Future
The Brocade VDX 8770 is privately built to residence a elaborating needs of tomorrow’s information centres and to support a latest technologies. With an industry-leading 4 Tbps backplane, a Brocade VDX 8770 framework is designed to support destiny technologies such as unenlightened 100 GbE, providing plenty opening ability for years to come. The Brocade VDX 8770 is also engineered for rising Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architectures, with stretchable hardware support for network virtualisation by technologies such as VXLAN conceal networking.
Continued Leadership in Ethernet Fabrics
In 2010, Brocade began articulating a prophesy for transforming networking to support a next-generation cloud-optimised information centre. Later that year, Brocade delivered on a initial proviso of this prophesy by pioneering a Ethernet fabric difficulty with a introduction of Brocade VCS Fabric record and a Brocade VDX 6720 VCS-enabled switch. In 2011, Brocade delivered on a second proviso of a prophesy by expanding a Brocade VDX family with a Brocade VDX 6710 and 6730 switches. Continuing a series of a information centre networking and Ethernet fabric category, a introduction of a Brocade VDX 8770 represents a third proviso of Brocade’s vision. This prophesy focuses on assisting a largest-scale information centres utilize VCS fabrics that broach aloft automation, resiliency and potency to support a many modernized private and open cloud environments.
Pricing and Availability
The Brocade VDX 8770 is orderable now. U.S. list cost starts during $65,000 ($833/10G port). The Brocade VDX 8770 and other Brocade networking solutions are accessible direct, by Brocade channel partners and around Brocade Network Subscription.
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About Brocade
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) networking solutions assistance a world’s heading organisations transition uniformly to a universe where applications and information reside anywhere. (http://www.brocade.com/)
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Quote Sheet:
Analyst:
“Ethernet Fabrics are a pivotal record member of fabric-based infrastructures. As organisations find to maximize efficiencies in a information center, capacitate larger agility, and optimise a user experience, they are relocating to some-more scalable, agree network topologies to expostulate aloft opening and reduce latency opposite a whole network. For Service Providers, fabrics emanate a some-more stretchable design that allows a extended operation of services to be delivered to a vast patron set with different requirements. For enterprises, fabric architectures facilitate network operations and support virtualisation by violation a earthy ties between focus servers and a network topology,” Mark Fabbi, clamp president, renowned analyst, Gartner.
Partners:
“The Brocade VDX 8770, VCS enabled switches, with full bandwidth fabric and multipath capabilities, yield a business with poignant availability, potency and scalability benefits.” Sujal Patel, president, Isilon Storage Division, EMC.
“IBM and Brocade are focused on providing a corner business with a best networking solutions possible, that is because we’re so gratified with a invariably flourishing partnership with Brocade. Brocade VDX switches precedence IBM’s InfoSphere BigInsights Hadoop-based product, and IBM InfoSphere Streams is leveraged in a wider, integrated solution. Since a Brocade VDX switches are optimised for a IBM Big Data platform, they are an glorious resolution for companies that need to conduct vast quantities of mission-critical data,” pronounced Nagui Halim, IBM Fellow, IBM.
“Windows Server 2012 provides Microsoft business with industry-leading creation in software-defined networking, that enables modernized network virtualisation for private, open and hybrid cloud environments,” pronounced Ross Ortega, principal module manager, Windows Networking, Microsoft. “We are gratified to work with Brocade and a VCS Fabric as partial of a vast Windows Server Hyper-V ecosystem. Together, we can assistance organisations muster flexible, programmed networking for a multi-tenant cloud.”
“We are gratified to continue to partner with Brocade to capacitate a corner business to realize a advantages of Brocade’s networking technologies, joined with secure, stretchable and devoted VMware cloud infrastructure, including a new VMware vCloud® Suite. Together, we are assisting a business accelerate their tour to a cloud, while giving them a resources they need to welcome software-defined networking,” pronounced Parag Patel, clamp president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware.
Customers:
“After evaluating a Brocade VDX 8770 Switch as partial of an early margin hearing program, we are intensely confident with a opening and scale. We are a flourishing business, and we need a network that can grow as we do. we demeanour brazen to streamlining a network with a serve of a new switch,” Tomohiro Ueno, network group leader, CyberAgent, Inc.
“I see Ethernet fabrics as a biggest creation in a use provider market. We’ve been regulating Brocade VCS Fabric record for dual years now and we trust that it is a best fabric resolution available. The extensive throughput, flexibility, and fortitude of Brocade VCS fabrics have authorised us to enhance a services greatly, while surpassing patron expectations. We have been regulating a Brocade VDX 8770 Switch, and it builds on a stairs done by a Brocade VDX 6720 height we adopted in 2010. It gives us a lively and morality we need to scale out a network even further,” Stefan Ideler, CTO, Interactive 3D.
“We are a 4500-seat craving with dual information centres and over 80 microsites–mostly inhabitant though some international. The multiple of performance, manageability and value offering by a Brocade VDX family is unmatched by any other switch vendor. The Brocade VDX 8770 Switch, in particular, fits for us really good due to a pier density, power, and manageability. Our information centre network used to be a large bottleneck for opening and we predict that a Brocade VDX 8770 will concede us to grow and keep forward of a network approach curve, generally for east-west information centre traffic, that continues to grow with no finish in sight,” pronounced Michael Harrison, comparison network engineer, Physicians Sales and Service.
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