By Cat Yong
Because, as all of the world’s data grow from terabytes to petabytes to zettabytes, how ready are networks, or the highway that these data traverse on, to deliver information to where it needs to be?
But, Brocade did not just stop with the VDX6740, which is based upon Brocade’s Fabric Vision technology and enables advanced policy-based monitoring and alerting, as well as quick deployment of a resilient and high-performance storage network which is self-forming with and self-provisioning with minimal intervention.
They also recently introduced the Brocade 7840 extension switch that enables local replication performance over long distances, even with encryption. This IP extension switch is purpose-built for IP storage replication between two data centre sites that could be continents apart.
For example, data traversing between New York and Chicago, would achieve 25 millisecond latency and only 0.1 percent packet loss. That’s 50 times more throughput over a huge distance, using an IP network, instead of a dedicated network.
Peace of mind
Brocade Malaysia country manager, Sean Ong said, “Two to three years ago, banks would have requirement for downtime to not exceed 30 minutes.
“These days, downtime is not an option at all.”
Brocade’s storage management software suite is also enhanced t support Brocade’s IP storage portfolio. The Brocade Network Advisor would be able to provide visibility across all storage networks, be they IP and Fibre Channel.
Ong shared that this unprecedented visibility into the network is possible because of their close engagement with virtualisation vendor, VMware.
IDC’s storage research director, Ashish Nadkarni had commented, “Traditional Ethernet networks were never designed to address the needs of IP storage.
“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 centres, are essential to maintaining predictable and reliable application performance.”
