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To maintain a competitive advantage, IT organizations are turning to virtualization solutions built around pools of flexible server and storage resources that can meet dynamic business requirements. However, to implement a holistic data center virtualization strategy, these organizations need a unified, end-to-end solution based on a powerful, reliable, and scalable IT infrastructure.
The Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture provides a strategic foundation for implementing this type of holistic data center virtualization solution. It provides the "enabling" layer for server and storage virtualization with the built-in intelligence required for high-performance virtual environments—along with unique Adaptive Networking services and multiprotocol capabilities.
Key aspects of this holistic virtualization strategy include:
- Data center connectivity
- Server connectivity
- Storage fabric extension
- Centralized fabric management
- Professional services
- Best-in-class solutions
Brocade works closely with the leaders in storage and server virtualization to ensure the highest levels of integration and reliability in the virtual data center.
Feds Must Leverage Data Center-Class Networks to Maximize Flexibility, Efficience of Virtualization
If industry predictions are correct, the evolution toward virtualization will create a profound shift away from long-standing information silos to higher performance, more scalable and efficient network operations, government-wide. To achieve this goal federal agencies must somehow juggle all of their current demands – including consolidating outdated, disparate technologies, mobilizing workers and ensuring IT security and continuity of operations – within stiff budgetary constraints. Find out how.
Q&A: Preparing the Data Center for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
The first objective is to provide quality of service to virtual machines that is consistent with what we have been able to provide in manually configured, single-application environments. The second objective is to provide persistence of connectivity so that when a virtual machine moves between compute nodes, the connections and resources within the network will automatically follow the virtual machine to its new compute location. And the third objective is to provide tools for monitoring the performance levels being delivered and reporting back to end users so they can be sure they're actually receiving what they're paying for.
The State of Data Center and Network Infrastructure
Data centers and networks are under tremendous pressure to deliver higher performance. Read new data from this TechWeb survey of 220 IT pros to see IT spending trends, networking plans for 2010, key business and technology issues impacting the network, as well as key considerations when evaluating next generation networking features.
Best Practices for Virtual Infrastructure Management
The flexibility that virtualization enables can lead to outages if network connections don't travel along with VMs, or if they create unexpected demands on physical resources for which IT may be unprepared, thereby causing degradation in user performance. These best practices will help you prepare a network that meets virtualization challenges.
Facilitating a Holistic Virtualization Solution for the Data Center
An organization's ability to improve agility, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies hinges on building a powerful, flexible IT infrastructure that gives employees the tools and information they need to react quickly to changing market conditions. Brocade extraordinary networks provide a scalable, reliable, and high-performance foundation to save money and extend virtualization throughout the data center.
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