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- File management is evolving. Are you prepared? Free download to learn more
- Ever feel like you're storing everything and managing nothing? As data evolves, so must your file management skills. You need new tools to help you keep up. Thankfully, Brocade File Solutions for Windows File Administrators can clear the clutter. With Brocade File Solutions, you'll consolidate, automate, and manage your files...
- Tags: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Data Management, Data Centers, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Productivity, Databases, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Taneja Group: Brocade FME - Total Enterprise File Management
- Today's server administrators are tasked with managing the ever-growing files stored within their data centers. This Taneja Group report, Brocade FME - Total Enterprise File Management, provides insights into how Brocade File Management Engine FME, delivers policy-driven automation to simplify file management and enable transparent file movement within the data...
- Tags: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Taneja Group, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Simplifying Virtualization Through Adaptive Networking Technology
- As IT organizations increasingly deploy virtual servers and storage to consolidate resources and improve utilization, they must be able to dynamically provision applications on virtual servers and move them non-disruptively as workloads change. However, this increased mobility of application workloads can sometimes create unpredictable congestion in the networks connecting server-to-storage...
- Tags: Monitor, Network, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Virtual Server, Congestion, Networking Technology, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Monitors & Displays, Servers, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Adaptive Networking - Advanced Data Center Fabric Technology
- The Brocade Data Center Fabric DCF Architecture is an architectural foundation and evolutionary strategy for designing, building, and managing enterprise data centers. A critical advanced technology integrated into the data center fabric is Brocade's adaptive networking. Adaptive networking services will become essential as evolving data center fabrics collapse server-to-storage, server-to-server,...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Brocade Data Center Fabric Architecture, Data Centers, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Introducing the Brocade Data Center Fabric Architecture
- Enterprise data centers are undergoing a transformation driven by the need to reduce costs and increase performance. The evolving data center fabric exploits developing virtualization technologies for a data- and application-driven solution that reduces complexity and enables end-to-end management on a common framework. Today, business organizations are challenged by conflicting...
- Tags: Data Center, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Enterprise Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The Brocade Data Center Fabric
- As today's IT organizations face an increasing number of internal and external business requirements, they must ensure that their data centers become a strategic asset for their continued growth and expansion. Pressures to reduce cost and improve agility in an atmosphere of unprecedented data growth - combined with accelerated adoption...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The Path to a Green Data Center
- The environment is everyone's concern. That's why Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade have developed eco-friendly solutions to address the needs of today's data centers. As IT organizations worldwide move through the millennium, they face the combined challenge of exponential data growth, dwindling energy resources, rising energy costs, and increased pressure...
- Tags: Data Center, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Intranet Improves Productivity and Access to Information, Reduces Costs
- Brocade Communications Systems, a company specializing in data center networking solutions, needed to deliver corporate information to employees in a centralized manner. Content was difficult to locate because it was spread across disparate storage systems and locations. With help from EMC Corporation, Brocade implemented a new intranet based on Microsoft...
- Tags: Employee, Microsoft Access, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intranet, Productivity
- Case studies 2007-11-30
- Brocade Tape Pipelining With Sun's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager
- StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 (VSM5) system is the industry's leading virtual tape solution for large-scale mainframe data protection infrastructures. In addition to unmatched scalability, cost control, and availability, VSM5 supports FICON, for high-speed connectivity between multiple virtual tape subsystems and Automated Cartridge Systems ACS. Combining VSM5 with the high-speed...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Storage, StorageTek, StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 System, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Mainframes, Data Management, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Brocade ships 8 Gbit/s fibre channel blades
- At the Storage Networking World in Dallas, Brocade announced that its first 8 Gbit/s blades have already shipped to OEMs for evaluation. General availability should come early next year. Excerpt from The Register: Brocade says the transition from 4 to 8 Gbit/s is especially valuable...
- Tags: Fibre Channel, Blade, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Sun and Brocade: The Green Combination for Your Datacenter
- This paper reviews the energy consumption of tape libraries and Director-class Fibre Channel switches that make up an enterprise Tape SAN. The combination of the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Tape Library and the Brocade 48000 Director can reduce the carbon footprint and energy costs over competitive offerings. They are ideal for...
- Tags: Data Center, Tape Library, Sun Microsystems Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Data Centers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Flooring Manufacturer Links Hundreds of Locations Using Branch Office Solution
- Mohawk Industries represents some of the biggest names in residential and commercial flooring, including brands such as Mohawk, Karastan, and American Olean. The company has operations at nearly 500 locations, including retail outlets, warehouses, and distribution centers - almost all of which generate a large number of unstructured data files....
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mohawk Industries, Backups, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-06-29
- Photo: Brocade charges announced
- Federal prosecutors and SEC officialsannounce civil and criminal charges against former Brocade executives.
- Tags: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., executive, federal prosecutor, photograph, SEC
- Image galleries 2006-07-20
- Brocade Enterprise and Entry SAN Switch Modules for IBM eServer BladeCenter Design, Deployment and Management Guide DDM Version 1.0
- This paper is a user guide written for SAN administrators to help learn about many of the Brocade licensed products and how they relate to the Brocade Enterprise SAN Switch Module for IBM eServer BladeCenter and the Brocade Entry SAN Switch Module for IBM. eServer BladeCenter. The Brocade Enterprise and...
- Tags: IBM eServer BladeCenter, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, IBM eServer, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2004-05-04
- Get IT Done: Build your SAN with solutions from Brocade Communications
- Learn how Brocade Communications can act as a SAN and ASP providerDoes brocade make you think of silk fabrics and refined design? Well, California-based Brocade Communications takes that elegant image into the world of hardware and software. And for them, the analogies have worked.Brocade Communications started in 1995—an eon ago...
- Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Get IT Done, Mary Ann Fitzharris, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, fibre channel, storage
- Technical articles 2000-03-01
- NPIV: Emulex Virtual HBA and Brocade, Proven Interoperability and Proven Solution
- N-Port ID Virtualization NPIV is an extension to the Fibre Channel industry standard, which is available across the Emulex Host Bus Adapter HBA product line and the Brocade Storage Area Network SAN switches and directors. NPIV delivers significant advantages for running multiple Virtual Machines VMs and managing the workload across...
- Tags: Interoperability, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Emulex Corp., N-Port ID Virtualization, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Bolstering a SAN for a New Generation of Growth
- Founded on the principle that technology is only as good as its implementation, Rackspace Managed Hosting has thrived by tailoring its Web hosting solutions to the unique needs of its customers. Rackspace wanted to consolidate and simplify the management of its backup and storage services, reducing administration time and costs...
- Tags: Rackspace, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-06-01
- Protecting Customer Information and Improving Data Consistency
- A major national bank faced critical data accessibility challenges. Its existing IT architecture was not originally designed to handle the volume of data it was being tasked with storing, serving, and protecting. As a result, bank employees faced longer-than-usual data access times, and even then could not always verify that...
- Tags: Bank, Customer Information, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Financial Services
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- NIKKEI Logically Consolidates Brocade SANs for Greater Efficiency and Security
- With its profitability dependent on online and print content, NIKKEI's seven Japanese offices and 35 offices worldwide must archive massive amounts of data indefinitely to ensure that subscribers and staff can quickly access information. At the same time, the company was seeking ways to further protect its mission-critical data by...
- Tags: Security, Nikkei, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Brocade Integrates Salesforce Data With Key On-Premise Operational and Analytic Systems Using Data Services Delivered Through Informatica PowerCenter
- Founded in 1995, Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) provides the industry's leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. The company wanted to implement a data services framework atop an enterprise data integration platform to tightly integrate an external salesforce.com Salesforce on-demand deployment...
- Tags: Data Service, Salesforce.com Inc., Informatica, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales
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