Brocade, a provider of fabric-based data centre architectures, has unveiled new offerings designed to help enterprise customers migrate to private cloud architectures.
The offering is a fabric-based, end-to-end networking offerings based on 16Gbps Fibre Channel technologies.
The new 16Gbps Fibre Channel portfolio includes the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone, the 6510 Switch, the 1860 Fabric Adapter, Network Advisor 11.1 management software and the Fabric OS 7.0 operating system.
All the products are based on the next-gen Fibre Channel industry standard, FC-PI-5, offering 16Gbps performance, which increases the performance of offerings, said the company.
Brocade data centre and enterprise networking vice-president Jason Nolet said Fibre Channel fabric technology continues to be the top customer choice for creating reliable and high-performance virtualised server and storage environments.
"In addition, Ethernet fabrics have the potential to define data centre network architectures for the next decade. Both technologies demonstrate the highly integral and strategic nature that networks play in support of virtualisation and the migration to the private cloud," Nolet said.
The Brocade 16Gbps Fibre Channel offerings will be available beginning in second quarter of 2011.
